What books can I read to cement my politics?

What books can I read to cement my politics?

I'm a dirty fence sitter. I'm going to buy 10 books on amazon tonight.

Animal Farm is a good satire on the shortcomings of humans in a socialist society.

I read it in highschool but I don't remember if I understood it. Is it a fair look? Also I thought it was about communism? I'm more interested in libertarianism and fascism

Mein Kampf

Socialism AND Human Action-Ludwig Von Mises

>I don't remember if I understood it
>Also I thought it was about communism?
You should read it again.

Orwell was a Socialist.

Das Kapital

*state socialism + (one) party politics

Mises is somewhat outdated, but has some interesting arguments either way. If you read him, read Hayek, Mises and then Milton Friedman to get the gist of the legacy

yea sure, let a noob run through Marx's 1000+ page volume of political economy critique

Nope.

The Communist Manifesto is a beginners start of Marxist/Communist thought however

This pic has a lot to read through. I can't speak to quality of the list, but it definitely has some good reads. If you only read through this info graph, could take you 2 years

I meant to say: Mises, (THEN) Hayek, then Friedman.

By the time Friedman became relevant, the Keynesian economics and big government had already infultrated his otherwise Austrian econ upbringing from Hayek (who was the 'opposite' of Keynes)

At this rate, it's like i'm the only one here.

PLEASE, PLEASE do not read Atlas Shrugged. It's too long, and if you grab one of her other books with essays, you'll get a better gist of what she's saying. Only commit to reading Atlas Shrugged after that

yes, and?

You're much better off asking /pol/. There are unironic socialists/leftists/ on Veeky Forums, and you've already shown you're redpilled.

Why do socialists always shit on socialism?

Socialism in its philosophy, politics, economics and social are different across writers, politicians, historical, cultural and national context

Thus, a socialist that wants the state to administer directives and change the country will not intermingle with a socialist that wants the state abolished.

Also, everyone is too edgy for everyone else. in-fighting among sects is a thing

Here is some good leftist lit. I will post more soon.

The System of Communist Representation, 1919
Is this the Time to form “Soviets”?, 1919
Letters to the IIIrd International, 1919/20
Towards the Establishment of Workers' Councils in Italy, 1920
Theses of the Abstentionist Communist faction of the Socialist Party, 1920
Seize Power or Seize the Factory?, 1920
Party and Class, 1921
Party and Class Action, 1921
The Democratic Principle, 1922
The Lyons Theses, 1926
The Communist Left in the Third International, 1926
Letter to Karl Korsch, 1926
The Fundamentals for a Marxist Orientation, 1946
Force, Violence and Dictatorship in the Class Struggle, 1946
Class Struggle and “Bosses’ Offensives”, 1949
The Filling and Bursting of Bourgeois Civilisation, 1951
Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party, 1951
Doctrine of the Body Possessed by the Devil, 1951
Characteristic Theses of the Party, 1951
Fundamental Theses of the Party, 1951
Murder of the Dead, 1951
Marxism of the Stammerers, 1952
The Spirit of Horsepower, 1953
Weird and Wonderful Tales of Modern Social Decadence, 1956
In Janitzio Death is not Scary, 1961
The Legend of the Piave, 1963
When the Party's General Situation is Historically Unfavourable, 1965

All by Bordiga.

Pic related if you believe in "muh dark age" / " Christianity hates science"

>le armchair man

The Capitalist Manifesto, The New Capitalists

What are some right wing books? I don't want to just read left stuff, I want the main literature of all sides.

See: A lot of those are within the vicinity of 200-300 pages. Some of the more analytical books are much longer, but it looks like way more than it really is.

>Giving any kind of shit about politics
>Wanting to take a stand in a broad range of issues simultaneously by being part of an ideological platform
Could you BE more spooked?

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Yeah I've read a bit from all of them. I mentioned Misses mainly because he was probably the biggest influence in forming my (economic) politics.

>(((Hayek)))
>(((Mises)))
>(((Milton Freidman)))
>reading Cultural Capitalists who want to destroy Western civilization

woo lad

Discourses on Livy - Machiavelli
The Republic - Cicero
The Laws - Cicero
On Obligations - Cicero
Politics - Aristotle
Leviathan - Hobbes
The civilization of the Renaissance in Italy - Burckhardt
Two treatises on government - Locke
Reflections on the revolution in France - Burke
Outlines of the philosophy of right - Hegel

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Loving these suggestions!

Hans Herman Hoppe - Democracy, the God That Failed

- The dictators handbook
- Our political nature
- The origin of wealth
- The righteous mind
- Predisposed
These are non-ideological books as far as that is possible. Political science books and one economics book (complexity economics).

Is this bait? This has to be bait.