(Part 2) Top products from r/AgainstHateSubreddits
We found 4 product mentions on r/AgainstHateSubreddits. We ranked the 24 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Reddit is being weird, but yes I still have the titles of the books.
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, what I would consider to be a rather approachable primer on leftist philosophy. And it's available for free here.
Capital Vol. I by Karl Marx, heavy reading, there's three volumes and they are substantial books. But they are pretty foundational to the ideology of the movement. There are companion books written in modern times to help get to the point a little more quickly and succinctly. Such as those by David Harvey or Richard D. Wolff.
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, originally distributed as a pamphlet. Light reading and much more to the point than Capital. Available for free here.
Lastly, State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin. For me this was a more historical book than political. The Bolshevik revolution was one of the only large-scale successful revolutions by socialists. And Russia, having been feudal before the revolution, is interesting. Not a big fan of Lenin, Trotsky, or Stalin though. They failed to actualize what the proletariat wanted and did some pretty nasty stuff along the way.
Other stuff I'd recommend: Anything by Mikhail Bakunin, On Anarchy by Noam Chomsky, The Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State by Friedrich Engels. Also, if you're interested in dissenting opinions, read Ayn Rand. Her magnum opus is very long and titled Atlas Shrugged. Her work has been very influential on modern capitalist and conservative ideology. Nonetheless, I believe it useful to contrast worldviews.
Yes. Their core drivers are remarkably different.
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You might like this book:
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It should be mandatory that everyone either read or watch the documentary Guns Germs and Steel. Because on the face of it it wouldnt be a unfair question to ask why did Europeans become the most advanced and dominated other cultures. Guns Germs and Steel lays out a rock solid case on and to sum up the answer comes down to Geography and timing not because of superiority of any race. But the answer is even more complicated then that... andv to sit there and argue with these knuckleheads with this long complicated arguments is pointless. It would be better if kids learn young about why these discrepancies exist so we can shut down those questions early on.