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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
How to Be an Antiracist
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives
Between the World and Me
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Jungle
To Kill a Mockingbird
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
The Communist Manifesto
We Should All Be Feminists
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Radical Feminist Texts
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The House Divided by J.B. ManheimAdolf Hitler - Founder of Israel by Hennecke KardelEurocommunism Is Anti-Communism by Enver HoxhaHolland, kranten, kerkers en koningen by Eillert MeeterThe Swamp by Eric Bolling
Best political hit pieces
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Jean Vanier
We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.
Jean Vanier, Finding Peace

John Stuart Mill
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it. Suppose any party, in addition to whatever share it may possess of the ability of the community, has nearly the whole of its stupidity, that party must, by the law of it ...more
John Stuart Mill

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