Most Influental books

What were the most influental political books that you read?


Some of mine were:

Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton

A Peoples History of Iraq by Illario Salucci

Inside the Resistance by Zaki Chehad

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

 

Exo-Psychology :Leary:

 

I think it differs in different countries.

 

communist manifesto - marx and engels

 

the doors of perception - aldous huxley



reading freud now but i have to send it back

 

Industrial Society and Its Future, attributed to Ted Kaczynski

 

Certainly 1984 by George Orwell. I recently read Anthem by Ayn Rand, and while I'm a syndicalist, I found the book to be somewhat enlightening for what it had to say on individualism.

 

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair had a pretty big impact when it came out.

 

That Huey Newton book looks right up my alley. but mine are

Do it - Jerry Rubin
Soul on ice - Eldridge cleaver
Animal Farm -Orwell
1984- Orwell
Brave new world - Huxley

I read all of those at 14 near the begining of my highschool career, sort of shaped my outlook.

 

Communist Manifesto- Karl Marx
Manchild in the promised Land- Claude Brown
Animal Farm- Orwell

I think its kinda weird that me and Jack Straw arent the same person but our most influential book is the Manifesto...

 

"The Open Veins of Latin America" by Eduardo Galeano

"The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein

"Empire" by Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt

"Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left" by Slavoj Zizek, Ernesto Laclau, & Judith Butler

"State of Exception" by Giorgio Agamben

 

"Essay on Man" by Alexander Pope

 

Not at all weird, given how widely read it is and how influential it is as a political book...

 

Wow, I'm very surprised no one has mentioned Machiavelli's "The Prince"...that's probably the single most influential political book I've read. I don't see eye to eye with many of his principles (just don't approve of them...immoral if you will), but pretty much everything he says applied not only to his time but to the world we live in today as well. It just makes "sense"....that's all.

 

"The Communist Manifesto" Marx and Engels
"Imperialism - The Highest Stage of Capitalism" - Lenin
"Dialectical and Historical Materialism" Stalin
"On Practice" and "On Contradiction" Mao

These works basically formed my viewpoint on the world and how the world can be transformed completely.

"Political power comes from the barrel of a gun" Mao
"Without power, everything else is just an illusion" Peruvian Communist Party
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles" Marx

 

i'm sorry kids, but communism and socialism are not realistic solutions to capitalism. doesn't it's history of violence and infringing upon people's basic human rights bug you any?

 

in a perfect world it would be the perfect solution.... human nature doesn't allow it and that's just the way it is.

 

"the trial of henry kissinger" by christopher hitchens
"the managua lectures" noam chomsky
"inevitable revolutions" walter lafeber
"ideas and opinions" albert einstein
"the gulag" alexander soltsenitzin

 

Vibrational Medicine: Gerber
Holographic Universe: Talbot
The Healing Suncode: Henry
Transcending the Speed of Light: Seifer
Black's Law 1910

 

1984 is defiantly one of the next book i will read! I was reading the shock doctrine, but then got another Derrick Jensen book from the library so im reading that. Of all the political books ive read or scanned through, I think Derrick's point of view is the most similar to mine. Except he just expresses it alot better and makes it clearer. Definatly a good read. So far of his books i have read; A Language Older Than Words, As The World Burns and now I just got endgame volume 1.

And Animal Farm was a great good. really loved reading it in highschool!