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Marxism and Problems of Linguistics by Joseph Stalin

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informative
“Marxism is the science of the laws governing the development of nature and society, the science of the revolution of the oppressed and exploited masses, the science of the victory of socialism in all countries. As a science, Marxism cannot stand still, it develops and is perfected. In its development, Marxism cannot but be enriched by new experiences, new knowledge - consequently some of its formulas and conclusions cannot but change in the course of time, cannot but be replaced by new formulas and conclusions, corresponding to the new historical tasks. Marxism does not recognize invariable conclusions and formulas, obligatory for all epochs and periods. Marxism is the enemy of all dogmatism.” 
Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker

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hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

“The peoples owe all the political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or less measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength. Governments have employed every means that lay in their power to prevent the attainment of these rights or to render them illusory. Great mass movements among the people and whole revolutions have been necessary to wrest these rights from the ruling classes, who would never have consented to them voluntarily. One need only to study the history of the past three hundred years to understand by what relentless struggles every right has had to be wrested inch by inch from the despots.”

“If the enforced sale of the workers labour power was the cause of their slavery, then their organized refusal to work must be the means for their liberation.”

Os métodos do anarco-sindicalismo: Greve. Greve geral. Boicote de consumo. Boicote de produção. Sabotagem, sob o mote “para um mau salário, um mau trabalho”. “The policy of go slow was the first and most effective form of sabotage. There are a hundred means by which the workers can seriously disturb production. The railway workers in France and Italy threw the whole system of transportation into disorder by doing nothing more than to adhere to the strict letter of the existing transport laws, and thus making it impossible for any train to arrive at its destination on time.”
Quando nas condições mais desfavoráveis, a greve não é possível, há sempre outra maneira, que passa pelo cumprimento estrito do que está patente na lei/contrato. E a nossa geração bem sabe, como se vê pelo boicote às horas extraordinárias levado a cabo pelos Médicos em Luta, ou pelo movimento de Quiet Quitting que tanto perturba a entidade patronal.
O Ser e o Nada by Jean-Paul Sartre

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Did not finish book.
Leitura muito exigente para quem não é da área. Talvez nas férias.
The Cretan Runner: His Story of the German Occupation by George Psychoundakis

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adventurous tense medium-paced

4.75

De visita a Creta, encontrei no final do Samaria Gorge um monumento em homenagem a seis jovens gregos, capturados ali por Nazis em 1944. Foi dos poucos testemunhos da época que encontrei na ilha, provavelmente por falha minha. Este relato, de um também então jovem grego, permitiu-me conhecer a história trágica recente de um lugar a que os mais incautos, inebriados pela beleza evidente, consideram o paraíso. Porque, como escrito pelo tradutor, “a foreign traveller will only see the kind hospitality of these mountain people, their devotion to their friends, their humor and high spirits and a sweetness of character which is the invariable corollary of the hard conditions of their life”. 
Para quem estiver interessado em outros relatos na primeira pessoa da segunda guerra mundial, remeto às memórias de Simone de Beauvoir, A Força da Idade. 
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

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adventurous medium-paced

4.0

“When you’ve made up your mind,  no use lagging behind,  go ahead and no relenting 
Let your youth have free reign, it won’t come again, so be bold and no repenting”
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

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5.0

“It’s history. It’s poetry.”