A friend of mine has been collecting and scanning a library of rare books on leftist international politics. And I know I'm never going to be able to make the time to read all of them, but it's a bit of a dream of mine. The least I can do to contribute is get more eyeballs on it. The effort to preserve these critiques of Imperialist hegemony from behind the lines of contention is one of the noblest efforts I've seen on a website as noble as even the Internet Archive. I deeply appreciate all the folks able to lend their time to collecting these publications. Especially in these dark days.
I implore anyone looking for non-American/non-Capitalist points of view on the past hundred years of colonialism to take a scroll, maybe pick something out at random. There's some more procedural stuff as well, detailing things like justice and law in the DPRK, or the committee meeting notes of leftist assemblies on a variety of subjects. If you like stigmatized knowledge, there's something here or in related collections for you, I guarantee!
Some examples:
https://archive.org/details/stars-in-the-sky-of-palestine
Short stories of Palestine, circa 1978. If you need to connect with someone who just isn't getting why this issue matters to us now, it's because it's been going on since even before this collection was published. The time for it to end is long past due, and I don't think a reasonable soul could read even half of this without having an epiphany.
https://archive.org/details/environmental-protection-law-of-the-dprk-1986
Expresses the Juche views on the importance of Environmentalism toward the long term goals of a healthy and autonomous Korea, and details the legal principles that derive from them. I was just earlier this month wishing for Soviet equivalent texts.
https://archive.org/details/psywar-on-cuba
Overviews the history of propaganda and other psy-ops deployed against Cuba by the CIA and American government in their perpetual attempts to turn the people against the Communist revolutionary government, and Castro in particular. If you aren't already fascinated to know more, I'd be shocked!
https://archive.org/details/murderers-at-large-in-west-germany
Committee meeting regarding the persistence of Nazi ideology and terror in West Germany, and antifascist action plans for Berlin, circa 1958. This is relatively early critique of Operation Paperclip that's worth knowing even if just for the historical context of what that looks like practically, in the day to day. A valuable insight into how leftists have resisted the rise of fascism in the past.
Listen, I know a lot of this is dry reading, even when it's relatively light reading. An some of it is definitely draining to read in one way or another. I won't pretend it's not an acquired taste. But I dunno, you can pretend it's religious esotericism or occult lore if that helps? I mean, it's definitely stuff certain people don't want you to know about, just like the intricate dramas of the Papacy, or Whatever The Fuck Alchemy Was About. If you can study a star chart for fun, why not study a chart about agricultural reforms that could bring about the future you want to live in? Don't tell me history is only fun when it's about troop deployments, or how bread is made. Not that you won't learn some practical historic insights about the history of bread manufacture reading these things, mind you. But there's a lot more to history than wars, and tank schematics, and cozy domesticity. If you can play a city a planner sim and have fun, you can find some value in here. The machinery of Society is a deep well of stories, but in Capitalist thinking, only some versions of the stories are marketable, so we never get to hear about how other societies think and feel and act from an authentic point of view. It's information as practical as it is fascinating, and after you've gotten the taste for it, you'll thank yourself for the effort. Really, your social life will flourish once you can whip out some of the knowledge and insight you'll gain from this stuff at your next social function or info-dump. It's pure food for thought, of the most nutritious variety, imo!
