2025.03.27 - Pre read book buying post : Socialism and buddhism

 

The Red Flag by David Priestland

The Rise and Fall of communism by Archie Brown

Comrades by Robert Service

Spies and Commissars by Robert Service

The Buddha and the sahibs by Charles Allen

I fight through my depression by indulging in book buying.

(01) Buddha and the sahibs by Charles Allen

(02) Spies and Commisars by Robert Service

(03) Comrades by Robert Service

(04) Rise and fall of Communism by Archie Brown

(05) The Red Flag by David Priestland

  


With the rise of the discourse in Buddhism related to 'false' discourse of Buddha being born in Sri Lanka and socialism due to political shift, I thought of buying renowned non-fiction history books from eBay, where the images are shared in the post.

I was suggested an online training course about the negative aspects of socialism and communism, and the link is as follows.

https://online.hillsdale.edu/courses/promo/marxism-socialism-communism

This motivated me to buy these four books on socialism and communism.

The number of pages exceeds 3000 pages, and it might take years for me to finish reading these books due to my depression and busy schedule.

These books are freely available on the internet as PDFs and are also illegally available in the ocean of PDFs.

But I wanted to have a physical copy as a purchase.   

But many PDFs do not contain the images, and I had to take screenshots from online borrowed books from the Internet archive.

And also having a physical copy allows a digital world detox.


A weird share of my bookish obsessions.