Read West of the Sun by Edgar Pangborn which i really liked. First "sci-fi" I've enjoyed in a long time. A few humans crash into another planet that has at least two intelligent species. Almost like humans and neanderthals but more extreme maybe. Little hard to keep track of all the names for a relatively short book and hard to follow in the beginning, uses a lot of lingo that is no longer used.

He's wrong about Lenin and communism but I liked it a lot anyway. Don't really care about the difference between communism and whatever idealized form of liberalism Pangborn vaguely alludes to them finally reaching considering that we're so far away from every remotely reaching either.

Now reading The Iron Heel by Jack London. Didn't realize he was that much of a revolutionary. Only person I've heard share my opinion of philosophy. Very strident stuff. Good stuff. Amazing how they just leave all this out about London and it's exactly as he writes in the book. Our media suppresses this stuff. Did so back then. Still does.