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Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: (A New World Order)
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
The Naked Communist
Why Socialism Works
Gulag: A History
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
What Is to Be Done?
The Law
Utopia
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
The Communist Manifesto
The Great Gatsby
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazJesus’ Son by Denis JohnsonInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienDrown by Junot Díaz
Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer
127 books — 226 voters
From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean   DalyMetropolis and Hinterland by Neville MorleyCivil War St. Louis by Louis S. GerteisThe Rape of Europa by Lynn H. NicholasNever Call Retreat by Bruce Catton
Serious History Books
37 books — 9 voters

Night by Elie WieselThe Jews of Spain by Jane S. GerberAnne Frank Remembered by Miep GiesThe Nazi, the Princess, and the Shoemaker by Scott M. NeumanAmerica's Jewish Women by Pamela S. Nadell
Jewish history
205 books — 48 voters

Joe Pitkin
The language of starlings reminded her of nothing so much as the language of scholarly papers, the smooth and chilly syntax devoid of contour, the maddening reliance on 'the royal we' as the subject. Yet this was not the royal we, not in the sense that a pompous colleague or one of her lazy graduate students might use it: at least twenty birds had together formed the multilayered sound that came to her as English words. ...more
Joe Pitkin, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 132, Issue 6, June 2012

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

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