Best historical literature books according to redditors
We found 3 Reddit comments discussing the best historical literature books. We ranked the 2 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 3 Reddit comments discussing the best historical literature books. We ranked the 2 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
> Capitalism has been consistently proven to raise the standards of living wherever it has been tried.
Google the word neoliberalism sometime, and spend a day researching it.
> Meanwhile, every single attempt at socialism - the USSR, the PRC, the DPRK, Venezuela, Cuba - has resulted in disaster, and has lowered the standards of living wherever it has been tried.
In what sense are these socialist, apart from what they call themselves in name? An anarcho-capitalist can have some actual, justified criticisms against socialism in practice (I've seen many), but when people like you plow forward with such an elementary misunderstanding, believe me when I say you look bad, even to your own camp.
The Zapatistas? The Paris Commune? The Ukrainian Free Territories? Revolutionary Catalonia? The Israeli Kibbutzim? That is your actual target.
> There is a reason why every single country that was once considered communist has transitioned towards capitalism...
Because they were bombed to hell in the interest of the capitalist class?
> ... and it should be no surprise to anyone that the standard of living has raised in these areas.
Like the four asian tigers did through State intervention? (And like the US did, also). Nothing even close to a free market prescription, albeit a quasi-capitalist one nevertheless.
Up, Simba!
i also highly recommend david foster wallace's excellent profile of mccain from rolling stone: up simba!.
Well worth the $4, but i could swear i found a free version on the rolling stone site a few years ago.