Monthly Sunday Reading Group at RZH
We meet monthly to discuss readings that question capitalist production, social reproduction and capitalist states.
We put together a reading list below as a jumping off point.
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:
December 14 at 2pm
Interviews with Radical Palestinian by Shoal Collective
Why we are discussing it: Compiled by Shoal Collective, this series of interviews with Palestinian women covers their struggles on all fronts – against colonialism, white supremacy, conservatism, patriarchy, state control – and occupation.
The idea for this book came out of a concern that solidarity movements have a tendency only to engage with Palestinians about their fight against the Israeli occupation. Sometimes this can be a barrier to seeing them as comrades in our intersecting struggles.
10 radical Palestinian women spoke to the authors between 2018-2021. Listening to their voices will help people outside of Palestine better understand them as allies in our global struggles for freedom.
January - February, 2026
In What's Left, Malcolm Harris cuts through the noise and gets real about our remaining options for saving the world. Just as humans have caused climate change, we hold the power to avert a climate apocalypse, but that will only happen through collective political action. Harris outlines the three strategies—progressive, socialist, and revolutionary—that have any chance of succeeding, while also revealing that none of them can succeed on their own. What's Left shows how we can move forward together rather than squabbling over potential solutions while the world burns.
Good places to start list / past readings:
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
Making Workers: Radical Geographies of Education by Katharyne Mitchell
Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine
by Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadah