READ LIKE YOU GIVE A FUCK Anthropological Views of Economy Marshall Sahlins, Stoneage Economics (or why economic history is silly) Marshall Sahlins, The Western Illusion of Human Nature (why Homo Economicus is a flawed model) Marcel Mauss, The Gift (normative systems in exchange) Maurice Godelier, The Enigma of the Gift (why we should care about a gift economy) Economic history Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans and Kicking Away the ladder (Refutes neoliberal economic development theory entirely, excellent reads) Andre Gunder Frank, ReORIENT James Blaut, The Colonizer's Model of the World and Eight Eurocentric Historians (Refutes all Eurocentrism, including but not limited to Diamond and Landes) Vijay Prashad, Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (this is actually mainly about the concept of the "third world") Paul Bairoch, Economics and World History (good introduction, though I think Bairoch is wrong about colonialism) Janet Abu-Lughod, Before European Hegemony David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism Barlett & Steele, America, What Went Wrong? Economic theory Robin Hahnel, The ABCs of Political Economy (Teaches you basic economics, everyone should read it) Steve Keen, Debunking Economics (A good place to start) Bowles, Richards & Roosevelt, Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command and Change Gintis et al., Moral Sentiments and Material Interests (On human behavior and psychology as regards economics) Fehr et al., Foundations of Human Sociality (Same as above plus anthropological evidence) Lichtenstein & Slovic, The Construction of Preference (More on the above, kinda technical) Fine & Jomo, The New Development Economics Wilkinson & Pickett, The Spirit Level Environment/Agriculture Mazoyer & Roudart, A History of World Agriculture Michael Williams, Deforesting the Earth Giovanni Federico, Feeding the World: An Economic History of World Agriculture, 1800-2000 Raj Patel, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System Feminism/Gender Theory bell hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love and Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex. Christopher Kilmartin, The Masculine Self. Allan G. Johnson , Gender Knot Revised Ed: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy History William Blum, Killing Hope: U. S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II Maurice Meisner, Mao's China and After (Good and balanced history of Communist and 'communist' China) Mary Lefkowitz, Not Out of Africa (Refutes Afrocentrism) Lawrence Friedman, American Law in the Twentieth Century Chris Harman, A People's History of the World Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra (with Linebaugh) and The Slave Ship Mike Haynes, Refuting Revisionism (In particular the parts about the French Revolution are important) Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War (Also published as "Who Paid the Piper?", this shows the degree of CIA collaboration of many famous cultural people in the West, which is a different story than the usual tall tales about Soviet spies) Paul Hehn, A Low Dishonest Decade (On the economic origins of WWII) Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction (Same as above) Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts and Planet of Slums C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins [Haitian Revolution 1791-1804] Mary Davis, Brother or Comrade? [British Labour Movement] Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror [1300s] Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Revolution, Age of Capital and Age of Extremes Gerard Prunier, Africa's World War [Second Congo War and Rwandan Genocide] Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America Norman G. Finkelstein, Beyond Chutzpah Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Ira M. Lapidus, A History of Islamic Societies Marshall G.S. Hodgson, The Venture of Islam Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples Steve Coll, Ghost Wars [CIA involvement in Soviet-era Afghanistan] Aflred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade Marx & Engels Communist Manifesto The Condition of the Working-Class in England Writings of the Young Marx on Society and Philosophy Selected Journalism of Karl Marx Marx -Engels: Selected Correspondence (any edition will do) Capital Vol. I, Volume II, Volume III Marxism Fine & Saad-Filho, Marx's Capital Fifth Edition and Anti-Capitalism: A Marxist Introduction (Marx's Capital is the best intro book to marxist economics by far, start here) David Harvey, Limits to Capital, Enigma of Capital and A Companion To Marx's Capital David McLellan, Karl Marx: A Biography Michael Perelman, The Invention of Capitalism J.D. Hunley, Life and Thought of Friedrich Engels (Not essential but useful) Michael Lebowitz, Beyond Capital Media Analysis Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent (Also pick up Necessary Illusions which basically just expands on it) Alex Carey, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty Robert W. McChesney, Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times Ben H. Bagdikian, The New Media Monopoly Howard Friel & Richard A. Falk, The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy and Israel-Palestine on Record: How the New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East William Puette, Through Jaundiced Eyes: How the Media View Organized Labor Nick Davies, Flat Earth News Ben Goldacre, Bad Science Soviet history Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams (The absolute best book on the culture of the early Soviet Union in existence) and Serfdom, Society and the Arts in Imperial Russia Moshe Lewin, The Soviet Century and Lenin's Last Struggle Neil Harding, Leninism Kevin McDermott, Stalin: Revolutionary in an Era of War (Best 'neutral' book on Stalin that I know, represents the consensus well and makes no errors) Oleg Khlevniuk, The History of the Gulag Rex Wade, The Russian Revolution Getty & Naumov, The Road to Terror Martin Malia, Alexander Herzen and the Birth of Russian Socialism, 1812-1855 Alexei Yurchak, Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation Testing the Waters of the Left Sea Howard Zinn, A People's History Of The United States James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance Noami Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Matt Taibbi, Griftopia Razmig Keucheyan, The Left Hemisphere Thomas Frank, Pity the Billionaire Favorite Fiction Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun Memoirs/Biographies Abdul Salam Zaeef, My Life with the Taliban Hunter S. Thompsom, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail Cultural Studies/Literary Theory Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle Slavoj Zizek, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce and Looking Awry Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx Anthony Giddens, Capitalism and Modern Social Thoery Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man (Post)Colonial Studies and Critical Race Studies Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks Charles C. Mann, 1491 Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Theodore W. Allen, Invention of the White Race Edward Said, Orientalism Prison Studies: Capitalist Punishment: Prison Privatization and Human Rights Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison Gates of Injustice: The Crisis in America's Prisons Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice (Here's the companion site and chapter-by-chapter study guide with exercises and resources for student and professor alike) The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America America's Prisons: The Movement Toward Profit and Privatization Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits From Crime Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire Life Sentences: Rage and Survival Behind Bars HOW TO BE A REPUBLICAN OFFICIAL READING LIST Hate Christmas: https://mises.org/library/defense-scrooge Courtesy of eHo Conservative Shit Posting Hall of Fame CUtigers86 on why black people should be glad they get to be lawyers:[/QUOTE] If you are a public defender, great. Maybe you should take a moment while you're standing up during the national anthem to think about how you live in a country that allowed you the opportunity to become that if you worked hard enough instead of bitching about the fact that you, on occasion, have to physically acknowledge it
betsy devos is making me rethink my position on states' rights. maybe it was just a ploy so that people would never have to own their bad opinions. "do you think guns have a place in or around schools?" "well i think that's best left to local governments to decide"
states rights/less federal govt is such shitty policy pretty sure things like kansas & oklahoma have already shown us as much
My buddy made a great point the other night: libertarians are the biggest freeloaders of all time. "Hey dog thanks for the taxes to make internet, satellites, roads, a military, a currency, etc. but fuck all that I'm a sovereign" no you're a white guy with too much time on his hands "Nah but really like get a job"
GoodForAnother 1. Can we get some sort of left thread icon 2. can you give me the power to threadban people
I'm bad at keeping up, is the subtle Soviet Union prop art tounge-in-cheek or am I missing a larger point?
okay who is going to be dorky enough to look into this senate rule limiting question time to 5 minutes?