I hate Duterte. This book provides intelligent critique of Duterte. The collection is strongest I think in it's critique of the left who got caught up in joining Duterte's fascist regime.
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Mambabasa finished reading A Duterte Reader by Nicole Curato
A Duterte Reader by Nicole Curato
"... this book offers a penetrating portrait of a volatile administration poised between a troubled past and an uncertain future …
Mambabasa reviewed A Duterte Reader by Nicole Curato
"... this book offers a penetrating portrait of a volatile administration poised between a troubled …
An excellent collection of critical essays
5 stars
Mambabasa reviewed Imagined communities by Benedict Anderson
One of the books that got me interested in comparative politics
5 stars
This book was really so good. It made me interested in comparative politics.
Mambabasa reviewed Under three flags by Benedict Anderson
The rise of global anarchism corroborated Cuban and Philippines nationalism movements during the second half …
I learned more about Rizal than in Filipino class
5 stars
This book was enlightening. I learned about anti-colonial movements in Southeast Asia. I learned about Isabelo de los Reyes, the first Filipino socialist who was anarchist-inflected. I learned more about Jose Rizal from this book than in Filipino class.
Mambabasa reviewed The Anti-Development State by Walden Bello
I liked it
5 stars
Walden Bello is always a good read. The book provides a solid foundation for why the Philippine crisis is a permanent crisis.
Mambabasa reviewed How did we get into this mess? by George Monbiot
"Leading political and environmental commentator on where we have gone wrong, and what to do …
I liked it at the time
4 stars
Generally I've moved away from Monbiot's milquetoast environmentalism, but I did like it at the time.
After the financial crash and the great recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, …
I liked it at the time
4 stars
Mambabasa reviewed Deglobalization, 2nd Edition by Walden Bello
I liked it at the time
4 stars
Mambabasa reviewed The Abcs Of Socialism by Jacobin
"Slim, accessible, inexpensive, irreverent introduction to socialism by the writers of Jacobin magazine The remarkable …
A good primer
4 stars
Most of it still holds up. Good pluralist perspective. It ought be taken on its own terms, I think, regardless of the opportunist nonsense of its editor.
Mambabasa reviewed The new prophets of capital by Nicole Marie Aschoff (Jacobin series)
Mythmaking is as central to sustaining our present economy as profit-making. In the 1980s, Thatcher …
I thought it was a good critique for its time
4 stars
Mambabasa reviewed Brave new third world? by Walden F. Bello (Food first development report -- no. 5)
Walden Bello is always a good read
4 stars
Mambabasa reviewed American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Epic
5 stars
My favorite part of the book was the short stories and vignettes. I love the idea that America is a place for all kinds of immigration where migrants brought their gods with them.
Mambabasa reviewed The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
The story takes place on the fictional planet Urras and its moon Anarres (since Anarres …
Made me an anarchist
5 stars
I was on the fence on whether I ought be an anarchist, this book convinced me that I want to be an anarchist.