This is the list of top ten books for the
Leftist thinkers.
Left-wingers support social equality while
Right-wingers think that certain social order
is normal and desirable.
Starting the countdown at ten is “A Brief
History of Neoliberalism” by David Harvey.
“So-called global cities of finance, become
spectacular islands of wealth and privilege,
with towering skyscraper.
Within these towers, trading between floors
creates a vast amount of fictitious wealth".
This book reads like a true-life detective
story investigating the mugging of the world
economy in autumn 2008.
Extremely accessible and informative.
At number 9 is “The Wretched of the Earth”
by Frantz Fanon, first published in 1961.
“A government or a party gets the people
it deserves and sooner or later a people gets
the government it deserves”.The book is
written with anger and passion but has great
clarity and purpose.
Against the backdrop of Algeria’s attempts
to break free from the French colonial rule,
this book is a painful psychological exploration
of dehumanising effects of colonization upon
the individual and the nation.
“One Dimensional Man” is at number 8.
"This society turns everything it touches
into a potential source of progress and of
exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction,
of freedom and of oppression."
This 1964 book by Herbert Marcuse is a harsh
criticism of both contemporary capitalism
and the Communist society of the Soviet Union
and explains why the people of the modern
society are considered to be one dimensional.
At number 7 is “Homage to Catalonia”.
The book is George Orwell's personal account
of his experiences and observations in the
Spanish Civil War.
In an entertaining and non-partisan way he
conveys the boredom, confusion and lies of
the war and his encounter with the horrors
of a totalitarian police state, which greatly
influenced his writings in “Animal Farm”
and 1984.
“A People’s History of the United States”
by Howard Zinn is at number 6.
This is America's story from the point of
view of African Americans, America's women,
factory workers, Native Americans, working
poor, and immigrant laborers.
This heavily influential book was first published
in 1980 and has been assigned as reading in
many high schools and colleges across USA.
“Guerilla Warfare” by Che Guevara is at
number 5.
It is a fascinating insight into the ideology
and tactics of the Cuban Revolution.
Published in 1961, it soon became the guidebook
for thousands of guerrilla fighters in various
countries around the world.
“The Shock Doctrine” by Canadian activist
Naomi Klein is at number 4.
From Chile in 1973 to Iraq of today, she exposed
how the trauma of invasion was being exploited
to remake the country in the interest of foreign
corporations.
She called it "disaster capitalism."
At number 3 is “The Conquest of Bread”.
Originally written in French by Peter Kropotkin,
this book lays out the basic principles of
the anarcho-communism.
Like Marxists, he argues that the concentration
of the wealth is the root cause of poverty
but does not suggest a centralized state as
the solution.
His solution is autonomous collectives which
produce what they can and barter for what
they want.
At number 2 is “Understanding Power: The
Indispensable Chomsky ”. Propaganda is to
democracy what violence is to totalitarianism.
This book really is the indispensable Chomsky.
A must read for all activists and conspiracy
theorists.
“The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx
is at number one.
The purpose of the Manifesto was to ignite
and unite the faithful, recruit the curious,
and frighten the bourgeoisie.
This book is a rousing call to arms whose
influence is still felt today.
Everyone interested in political thought or
modern history needs to read this book.
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