In keeping with the both sidedness of Newf I would like to ask the far left represented on this board to assign me some good reading material.
If you don't know yet I am far right and don't think anything is going to sway that but I am open minded and willing to change.
Left wing reading material
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Left wing reading material
Gus P.-- Get'um up against the wall
Who let all this riff raff into the room
There's one smoking a joint and
Another with spots
If I had my way I'd have all of you shot
Who let all this riff raff into the room
There's one smoking a joint and
Another with spots
If I had my way I'd have all of you shot
Well. There is so much stuff you can read!
At the moment, some very popular authors are Mike Moore, John Pilger and Noam Chomsky.
Moore is probably the most readable of those three, however Pilger and Chomsky go into much greater depths and you may find them more convincing.
The works of Marx and Engels are definitly seen as the bible to some more hardcore leftists - however they are writting 100 years ago and you may find them hard to relate to.
Other old writers to look for are Trotsky and Bakunin who are also both Russian.
If you can find it: ""Ideas & Opinions" by Albert Einstien is an excellent read.
Animal Farm and 1984 by George Owell are both excellent (as is anything by Owell).
Leo Tolstoy is another Russian author to look out for.
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela is awesome.
Infact there are hundreds of excellent left wing works and it's really a matter of finding what kind of book you want to read.
Some famous left wing books that you don't need to read are "steal this book" -Abbie Hoffman "the anarchist cookbook" - William Powell and "guerrilla warfare" - Che Guevera. Other work by Che is very inspiring. Also Che is the in the logo of the Montreal footbag club - La Resistance and until that happened I always wanted my BAP name, if I got into BAP, to be Che.
There is an excellent reading list at www.ratm.com (rage against the machine homepage - excellent left wing music and a big inspiration to me) and another excellent site that I lived off when I was more politically involved is http://flag.blackened.net/
Oh and some environmental books!
The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki is awesome - infact near the end it made me cry (reading the speach David's daughter made to the Rio summit).
The Science of Discworld and the sequal - both books by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack S Cohen is another excellent book, written at a very understandable level.
Some fiction - Authors like Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahnuik and occasionally Stephen King are excellent.
I'm going to stop now, because otherwise I'll keep writing for ever!
Edit: Bertrand Russell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At the moment, some very popular authors are Mike Moore, John Pilger and Noam Chomsky.
Moore is probably the most readable of those three, however Pilger and Chomsky go into much greater depths and you may find them more convincing.
The works of Marx and Engels are definitly seen as the bible to some more hardcore leftists - however they are writting 100 years ago and you may find them hard to relate to.
Other old writers to look for are Trotsky and Bakunin who are also both Russian.
If you can find it: ""Ideas & Opinions" by Albert Einstien is an excellent read.
Animal Farm and 1984 by George Owell are both excellent (as is anything by Owell).
Leo Tolstoy is another Russian author to look out for.
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela is awesome.
Infact there are hundreds of excellent left wing works and it's really a matter of finding what kind of book you want to read.
Some famous left wing books that you don't need to read are "steal this book" -Abbie Hoffman "the anarchist cookbook" - William Powell and "guerrilla warfare" - Che Guevera. Other work by Che is very inspiring. Also Che is the in the logo of the Montreal footbag club - La Resistance and until that happened I always wanted my BAP name, if I got into BAP, to be Che.
There is an excellent reading list at www.ratm.com (rage against the machine homepage - excellent left wing music and a big inspiration to me) and another excellent site that I lived off when I was more politically involved is http://flag.blackened.net/
Oh and some environmental books!
The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki is awesome - infact near the end it made me cry (reading the speach David's daughter made to the Rio summit).
The Science of Discworld and the sequal - both books by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack S Cohen is another excellent book, written at a very understandable level.
Some fiction - Authors like Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahnuik and occasionally Stephen King are excellent.
I'm going to stop now, because otherwise I'll keep writing for ever!
Edit: Bertrand Russell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If you're only gonna read one book, I'd say either:
Zinn's history of the US, which Wolfpac mentioned.
Or, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" by Greg Palast, if you want a book that makes great arguments for a bunch of 'liberal' issues. Plus he's a very smart and humorous writer, so it's a pretty fun read as well.
But personally, I think you'd enjoy 1984 by Orwell the most, since it's more anti-authoritarian than liberal. I read it recently and I couldn't put it down for a second. It's easily one of the greatest books of the past century, and every single person should read it at some point in their lives.
I wouldn't recommend Moore's writings. I see his work as basically entertainment, and aimed at a general public that doesn't really involve itself in politics much.
Zinn's history of the US, which Wolfpac mentioned.
Or, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" by Greg Palast, if you want a book that makes great arguments for a bunch of 'liberal' issues. Plus he's a very smart and humorous writer, so it's a pretty fun read as well.
But personally, I think you'd enjoy 1984 by Orwell the most, since it's more anti-authoritarian than liberal. I read it recently and I couldn't put it down for a second. It's easily one of the greatest books of the past century, and every single person should read it at some point in their lives.
I wouldn't recommend Moore's writings. I see his work as basically entertainment, and aimed at a general public that doesn't really involve itself in politics much.
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