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share your favorite books here or don't I've read recently - - Rules for radicals - Saul Alinsky which is free https://archive.org/details/RulesForRadicals - ABCs of Political Economy https://www.amazon.com/ABCs-Political-Economy-Modern-Approach/dp/0745318576/ I hear for history the Caro books on LBJ are great, what else??? Others I've heard of - The Kingfish - Huey Long history - Those game change things ???? The bible?
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The Battle of Algiers is a good politics movie! So is Network and Primary Colors and even Man With a Movie Camera!
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I like the Chilean movie 'NO' which is about how Pinochet was defeated in a plebescite thanks to his opponents marketing tactics on how to sell people on democracy:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApJUk_6hN-s
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Jan 22, 2017 02:16
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Any Ken Loach
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I highly recommend mein kampf
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Panzeh posted:I highly recommend mein kampf and it's sequel.
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capital. close thread.
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Jan 22, 2017 02:36
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Caro on LBJ and Perlstein on Goldwater/Nixon/Reagan.
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Al-Saqr posted:and it's sequel. the sequel is a better political polemic but it doesnt have the autobiographical quality of the original
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jarofpiss posted:capital. close thread. You forgot the manifesto and 'What is to be Done?'
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All of those are mainly-irrelevant relics of the 19th century imo
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jBrereton posted:All of those are mainly-irrelevant relics of the 19th century imo everything you need to know that's newer than that you can get by watching zizek youtube videos
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jBrereton posted:All of those are mainly-irrelevant relics of the 19th century imo YOU'RE a mainly irrelevant relic of the 19th century. You want relevant books? FINE. https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/138332.Joseph_Vissarionovich_Stalin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/170288.On_the_Art_of_the_Cinema https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2930945-on-the-juche-idea HAVE AT YOU.
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The Game Change books are very entertaining and I really hope that we get multiple volumes on this recent shitshow
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rear end cobra posted:The Game Change books are very entertaining and I really hope that we get multiple volumes on this recent shitshow Wasn't Mark Halperin basically exposed as a total fraud?
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Yossarian-22 posted:Wasn't Mark Halperin basically exposed as a total fraud? He's always been all about access and nothing else, but I enjoyed WADR and I still want to believe that the books are true
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is there a GOOD book that is a comprehensive history of the 2003 iraq war or at least its origins. please help me
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rear end cobra posted:Caro on LBJ and Perlstein on Goldwater/Nixon/Reagan. hell yeah
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also i always post network in this threads, see that if you havent
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Fergus Mac Roich posted:is there a GOOD book that is a comprehensive history of the 2003 iraq war or at least its origins. please help me Imperial Life in the Emerald City.
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z is cool and good meisners maos china is a good in depth look from a not unsympathetic perspective
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If you have like 6 hours of your life to spare Novecento is good.
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mrbradlymrmartin posted:maos china [...] good
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I realise this may be more from a historical perspective but I would recommend A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin
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Grand Theft Autobot posted:Imperial Life in the Emerald City. Seems good so far. Also when I looked at the cover I remember the daily show having the author on way back when the book came out. Cool thanks
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plunkitt of tammany hall is good, just a collection of speeches by a tammany hall boss that are pretty interesting don't buy it! available for free on project gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2810
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Fergus Mac Roich posted:is there a GOOD book that is a comprehensive history of the 2003 iraq war or at least its origins. please help me Decision Points by George W Bush
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I tried to read Das Kapital the other day but HOO BOY is marx a lovely boring writer jesus christ 50 pages about 10 yards linen = 1 coat, but 1 coat = 10 yards linen, but 10 yards linen = 10 yards linen means nothing but is true. dude, i got it within the first of your thousand paragraphs on the subject i want to continue reading it so I can pretend to be a snarky intellectual but it's really painfully bad maybe im just not woke enough
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VOTE YES ON 69 posted:I tried to read Das Kapital the other day but HOO BOY is marx a lovely boring writer dry and bad aren't the same thing imo. his writing is on the turgid side but for a serious work of economics and philosophy at the time the style is totally unremarkable.
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Bitter Lake and Hypernormalisation by Adam Curtis
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar raises a lot of thought provoking points about the body politic, essential reading
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Comrade Cheggorsky posted:The Very Hungry Caterpillar raises a lot of thought provoking points about the body politic, essential reading This is a great book about Marx's concept of CMC: caterpillar, moth, (baby) caterpillar
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Trumps Baby Hands posted:Decision Points by George W Bush Reading the "enemy's" side is actually a good thing to do to gain perspective about them. Though I haven't read that so I don't know if its propaganda trash or not.
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Sylink posted:Reading the "enemy's" side is actually a good thing to do to gain perspective about them. 
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VOTE YES ON 69 posted:I tried to read Das Kapital the other day but HOO BOY is marx a lovely boring writer Skip the book and watch Metropolis instead. The mediator between the head and hands must be the heart.
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VOTE YES ON 69 posted:I tried to read Das Kapital the other day but HOO BOY is marx a lovely boring writer jsut read moby dick instead
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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:Skip the book and watch Metropolis instead. The mediator between the head and hands must be the heart. And that heart was Hitler.
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Badger of Basra posted:plunkitt of tammany hall is good, just a collection of speeches by a tammany hall boss that are pretty interesting this is dumb as hell and its great id swear trump was using it as an instruction manual but lol reading
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Sylink posted:Reading the "enemy's" side is actually a good thing to do to gain perspective about them. if you are opening a book with this mindset and are not a writer looking to pan it for the purpose of selling your own books you really need to re examine why you are reading in the first place. you impress nobody by scanning over texts with a closed mind.
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