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Levi Kavan writes about economics, labor, and technology for readers who want real answers instead of slogans. His work draws on political economy, labor history, and the experiences of workers navigating systems designed to keep them too busy to ask uncomfortable questions.

Before writing full-time, Levi spent years in workplaces where he saw firsthand the gap between what economics textbooks promised and what actually showed up in people's paychecks. That experience convinced him the most important political ideas were being explained badly, or not at all.

He's the author of How To Be a Democratic Socialist, Democratic Socialism, Explained, and Managed by Machine. His writing has been called "rigorous but actually readable" by people who ex ...more

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	Iran, Israel, and the Middle East Explained: Religion, Power, and the Roots of War 4.68 avg rating — 57 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How To Be a Democratic Socialist: The Definitive Guide To Democratic Socialism 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Democratic Socialism, Explained: History, Core Ideas, and Modern Politics in Plain English 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Political Ideologies, Explained: Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism, Libertarianism, Populism, and More in Plain English it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Why Libertarianism Is More Coherent in Theory Than in Practice

Libertarianism has a stronger claim to philosophical coherence than most political ideologies. Its core principle — that individuals should be free to make their own choices without coercion, and that government's legitimate role is limited to protecting that freedom — is clear, consistently applied, and generates reasonably determinate answers to a wid…

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“The factory is born not as an inevitable response to technology, but as a particular social choice: to concentrate production, to reorganize labor around the machine rather than organizing the machine around labor, to achieve control through proximity and surveillance.”
― Levi Kavan, How To Be a Democratic Socialist: The Definitive Guide To Democratic Socialism

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