Decode The Left with Karlyn Borysenko

Decode The Left with Karlyn Borysenko

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See what the socialists are reading

A list of book for sale at the socialist reproductive justice conference.

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May 05, 2023
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On April 15, 2023, I spent the day at the Collective Power conference at Hampshire College in Western Massachusetts, with 200ish of my closest comrades. In this limited series, I will document the experience.

There’s a lot to talk about. If you appreciate my work, please consider funding it by subscribing for $5/month or $50/year.


If you want to know how people think, there are really two things you can do:

  1. Listen to them talk about sex. That always gives you more information about who a person is and how they see in the world than you might believe.

  2. Read and watch the information they consume.

That’s why we watch Socialism Saturday on my channel on Saturdays at 6pm eastern: We are watching the information they themselves consume so that we can understand how they think, the voices that influence them, and how they see the world.

And books are another great way to see what’s going on. When I added the socialist reproductive justice conference a few weeks back, they had their book publishers exhibiting and I got to see what’s on the socialist reading list.

Some of the titles will shock you, but they give a lot of insight into how they see the world.

My personal favorite was the antifa coloring book:

In this premium article, I will:

  • Show you some of the books for sale at the conference

  • Tell you the upcoming titles to be released

  • Share how the socialist book publishers are hooking their audience on a neverending supply of material. It’s actually something the conservative publishers could learn from.

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