Monthly Sunday Reading Group at RZH
We meet monthly to discuss readings that question capitalist production, social reproduction and capitalist states.
We are about thinking big, thinking local, forming connections and foundation.
We are happy to discuss past readings with you too. Check out the resources below.
Contact us at therhizomehouse@protonmail.com if you need a copy of the current book.
Next discussion group meetup:
Sunday, September 14th at 2pm.
Making Workers: Radical Geographies of Education by Katharyne Mitchell (Chapters 1-5).
Finishing the book in October.
Why we are discussing it: I've been absolutely obsessed with this book and I talk about it nonstop to anyone who will listen: Making Workers by Katharyne Mitchell.
It looks at education from a social reproductive standpoint & analyzes the effects of global economic shifts on the theory/implementation of education.
November - December, 2025
Resisting Erasure:Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine
by Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadah
Why we are discussing it: New short book that gives a deep analysis of Palestine.
“A materialist analysis of the links between global capitalism, energy politics, and racial oppression in Palestine.”
What makes the book unique is the variety of perspectives brought together in a short book: Rafeef Ziadah is a feminist Palestinian organiser, Hanieh has a deep knowledge of energy, Knox known for capitalism and international law.
January - February, 2026
Everything We Thought Was Beautiful: Interviews with Radical Palestinian by Shoal Collective
Why we are discussing it: R. suggested a previous collection from Shoal collective but could also consider this new book.
Palestinian women are an essential—often silenced—part of global struggles for freedom. They are at the forefront of the anti-colonial struggle against Israel’s occupation of their lands, as well as being comrades in intersecting movements worldwide.
This series of interviews with Palestinian women living across Palestine and in the diaspora include a journalist on the front line of resistance against settlers and the Israeli army in the West Bank, a BDS activist, a doctor exposing Israel’s deliberate targeting of medical infrastructure as part of its genocidal assault on Gaza, an organiser who critiques the Palestinian Authority’s repression of social media and those making their voices heard in the diaspora, and others.
Past readings / good places to start:
Introduction to Capital - Michael Heinrich
See our discussion guide/zine for more resources:
https://libcom.org/article/beyond-money-commodities-and-state-discussion-guide-heinrichs-introduction-capital
Family Abolition - M.E. O'Brien
Optional stuff/critique:
The Welfare State and the Bourgeois Family-Household - Kirstin Munro
The Communes of Rojava: A Model In Societal Self Direction - Neighbor Democracy (40 minute video)
Fetishism, Money and the State Readings:
Fetishism - John Holloway
(Chapter 4 of Change the World Without Taking Power)
John Holloway had a huge impact publishing the book Change the World Without Taking Power in 2000. Here he outlines the concepts of commodity fetishism and reification. Fetishism can also be extended to the state and money.
Money - Samuel Chambers
Chambers writes that all money is a credit-debt relationship of trust and representation of value. Building on concepts of fetishism, Chambers claims money has no value itself.
Fetish Speaks Comic Zine - Freddy Perlman
Perlman's short zine on commodity fetishism and reification. Enjoy the restored art from this 1973 comic.
Updated translations of fetishism and trinity formula to go along with comic here.
Towards A New State Theory Debate - Chris O'Kane
O'Kane outlines a critical theory of the state by bringing together the work of Johannes Agnoli, Werner Bonefeld, and Simon Clarke. Agnoli is known as a leading voice in extra-parliamentary opposition in Germany in 1968 and coined the term "open Marxism" as an anti-state critical theory which Bonefeld, Clarke, Holloway and others are a part of.
Abolition Geography by Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Race, Prison Abolition and the State:
5. Race and Globalization (2002, 18 pages)
6. Fatal Couplings of Power and Difference: Notes on Racism and Geography (2002, 15 pages)
12. Restating the Obvious (w/ Craig Gilmore) (2008, 24 pages)
20. Abolition Geography and the Problem of Innocence (2017, 22 pages)
Other stuff we've read:
The Workers’ Inquiry and Social Composition by Notes from Below
Cyber-Physical Decentralized Planning for Communizing by Pedro HJ Nardelli
The Long Retreat by Boris Kagarlitsky
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer.