Welcome to Litsy!

The goal: to educate the Censor inside every thinking human being. To train them to be their own Censor, but to not even suspect it, to not know.

Many rumors are circulating about her, she's become a legend in Censorship! What degradation, from a censor to a poet! How shameful!

"It seems to me that all suicides in circumstances of hunger and need have the undoubted character of murder... The question of a right to suicide will only make sense in a future society where no material motives for suicide will exist. Only in a society that has guaranteed to all its members the means of existence will the question be appropriate.”

- Yevgeny Preobrazhensky, 1912

Published in 1957, this reads as an immediate view of the 1956 Hungarian revolution and flight of refugees. It‘s also completely a 1950s warning against communism. I was very much invested in the stories of these people who fought for and then fled their homeland.

🎧 I listened to the audio (a few hours while disking today) and found it bearable but not great.

#nonfiction #audiobook #FoodAndLit #Hungary
#BooksOnTheFarm

L'essai (The experiment) is a graphic work about the anarchist commune created by Honoré Henry in 1903 in the French Ardenne, close to the Belgian border. I like the art, but I am more ambivalent about the cliché-laden content. I am also disappointed that there aren't more women in the illustrations, seeing as the pictures of the time showed as many men as women. 💕 for the use of Ardennais dialect on the double page in the picture.

#two4Tuesday

1) I‘m with @Catsandbooks — stay inside with the AC; it‘s brutally hot out there
2) Many but most recently James Michener. When I learned he volunteered in the 1950s to help Hungarians escape the Soviets and communism, and how it inspired him to learn all he could about the situation, I was so impressed and I learned immense amounts about a country I knew so little about, #Hungary, thanks to #foodandlit

Thanks for the tag!

Reading very readable left take on the biggest left thing to hit earth society since the left became the left was a downright treat. This makes you realize the expected world wide revolution was way more complex then just Commies taking over Russia. The different hopes and dreams, tolerances for eventualities makes a very humane read- we something like this (more successful please) to happen again in face of the climate disruption right now!

Marx and Engels‘s historical analysis is breathtakingly, brilliantly simple. I think it‘s wrong but, again, you‘ve just got to admire its genius. Obviously, without understanding the historical basis of Marx‘s thought you can‘t understand anything else in Marxism.

In the 1950s, Michener volunteered to help refugees cross the Bridge at Andau into Austria escaping communism and the Soviet regime, which was putting down a temporarily successful revolt in Budapest, #Hungary. Horrified by what he saw and heard, he investigated in depth what brought about the revolt and its aftermath. This is a profound indictment of communism. Even though written in the 1950s, and being dated, it reverberates in the news from ⬇️

How is it possible for them to write so many novels?
[...] Writers-a bunch of parasites that just write and write, with all the abundance of incontinence they're capable of. Readers, the poor things, read what's published, what they're offered, but they nonchalantly and with indemnity skip over all the passages that bore them, a sign of mental health, of course. If I weren't a censor, I'd do the same, I don't even think I'd read, actually.