I’m a huge fan of David Graeber. Bullshit Jobs was part of what radicalized me, and I read it whenever I’m feeling isolated and misunderstood by an unjust world. He gets it, man. His other works are amazing too, and I’d highly recommend them all to anyone interested in socialism. I’m still heartbroken that he died so young.
Peter Kropotkin is another beloved author of mine. I’m not an ancom, but A Conquest of Bread is a great introduction to anarcho-communism, not to mention being beautiful and inspiring.
Who do y’all like to read?
Debt the first 5000 years is one of my favorite books. Graeber will be missed. He was so insightful.
Graeber is basically “must read” as far as i’m concerned; for anarchists and would-be anarchists, i’d say a comparable figure is Peter Gelderloos.
on the more obscure end, i’ve found the bibliographies of Walter Rodney and Amílcar Cabral to be quite good; perhaps not broadly applicable to modern socialism, but both definitely profile worthwhile international and historical perspectives (Rodney with Caribbean, Guyanese, and Black socialism; Cabral with the liberation war fought in Guinea-Bissau against the colonial Portuguese) that shouldn’t be forgotten. since they’re lesser-known you probably can’t find their stuff in print, but most of their works can definitely be found on libgen
I’m WAY out of line with everyone else, but I’m a big fan of Steven Brust. He’s probably the best fantasy author still living. That said, although there are Marxist elements in his work - tangentially, at least - he writes fantasy, not politics. So he’s a socialist and a writer, but you might not consider him a “socialist writer”.
