-
Book recommendation: C. L. R. James' The Black Jacobins. A history of the Haitian Revolution, the only successful slave revolt. And written in 1938 by a West Indian and a Marxist, which is an energy you can feel in the book.
-
"The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased."
-
also, if you're a games theory person and you want to read a book on how sports and culture shape each other, you should definitely read his Beyond A Boundary.