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Freakanomics. I had to read it during the summer for high school lol. Weirdly enough, my socialist/socdem teacher was obsessed with it.
Imagine Marx’s Capital, but it was interpreted by a someone trying to be funny, quirky, and relatable
Uhhh maybe October by China Mieville. Great history of the October Revolution right up until the last chapter when it becomes “it’s so sad what the revolution could have been had it not been corrupted by strongmen and authoritarianism”
Lib:
George Orwell - 1984 (for obvious reasons)
The Making of Donald Trump - David Cay Johnson (it’s :LIB: but actually an excellent summary of how Trump as we know him today came to be, the author is on DemocracyNow! a lot)
Questionable:
How to Live with a Huge Penis - Jacob and Thompson (my wife bought it for me lmao)
HAHA! I don’t actually have OMG, I think it was more of a joke.
DemocracyNow! has actually written several books, but the one I referenced is by David C Johnson, a regular guest on the show.
I’ll go a bit obscure: Legacy of Honor by Alvin Townley. It’s a bunch of interviews with former Eagle Scouts (including such names as Ross Perot, Michael Bloomburg, and Stephen Breyer, among others) about how the Boy Scouts taught them the skills to succeed in life (meritocracy basically). It hyped me up like hell as a teenager to get Eagle Scout but I’m scared to revisit it now as an, arguably leftist, adult.
EVERYBODY OUT OF THE WAY, I HAVE THE MOST EMBARRASSING BOOK POSSIBLE
*ahem
At the beginning of my move to the left, I bought …
Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots by Rod Dreher
