I’m currently reading Blackshirts & Reds and will also read others from your reading list. It’s an amazing book and it’s helping deprogram the US propaganda that I’ve been taught all my life and teaching me new things/ideas. I’m new to socialism/communism, even though I’ve been adjacent to it the last several years so I appreciate you making the list!

I turned 18 before the general election in 2016 but I regrettably didn’t vote. A couple years later I became a big Bernie supporter and voted for him in 2020. He’s the only genuine politician I can think of that makes sense.