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Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion S/Z by Roland Barthes Among the Thugs by Bill Buford The Politics of Cultural Despair by Fritz Stern A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan The Worlds of Herman Kahn by Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. Power and Powerlessness by John Gaventa Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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A.J.P. Taylor
“Marx was concerned to change society or rather, if he adhered rigidly to his system, expected society to change in the way he wanted.”
― A.J.P. Taylor, The Communist Manifesto
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