And I don't feel guilty ...

... about my fiction hoarding, because I just read a serious work of non-fiction. Tore through it, more like. Low-Wage Capitalism by Fred Goldstein. I'll resist the impulse to rave at length, but I will say that not only does it seem to me to be the book we've been waiting for in terms of clarity at this moment of capitalist crisis, but it also is the book we may not have realized we'd been waiting for in its analysis of the concrete effects of the fall of the Soviet Union. That is, it examines and lays bare the impact of the USSR's demise (as well as that of China's increasing capitalization and concomitant developments in India) on the the relationship of class forces, numerically in terms of the worldwide labor force available for exploitation, and more broadly in terms of the dynamic of the global struggle. What a contribution to the fight for a socialist future.