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So can /lit/ recommend me some books from the political spectrum?

Just read this and thought it was quite good, but it doesn't seem that I tend to disagree with Chomsky too often.

>> No.797065
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797065

From Zinn, who you should know is one of Chomsky's contemporaries: A People's History of the United States, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

>> No.797074

Fuck Noam Chomsky.


Faggot inspired a generation of campus backpacker commies screaming "LEGALIZE IT" and "FREE TIBET".

>> No.797083

>>797074
What's wrong with freeing Tibet?

>> No.797089
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>>797083
>missed the point

>> No.797094

>>797089


That they had good ideas?

>> No.797097

>>797089
>missed the joke.

>> No.797098

>>797089
>>797074

Chomsky has eloquent, thoughtful and well-formed opinions. His readership is not always as much.

You can't really fault an author for that.

>> No.797227

>>797059

Bump because I only have 1 book recommendation

>> No.797287
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797287

bump :(

>> No.797296

>>797287
Why is this photo always spammed here?

>> No.797333

>>797296

Because it gets replies

>> No.797641

>bump

>> No.797647

>>797059
I have this book, but I haven't read it yet.
Is it any good?

>> No.797651

>>797647
two thumbs up.

Chomsky knows his shit very well and knows how the hell to write.

>> No.797653
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797653

You should read this next. His counterargument to people like Chomsky is interesting.

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797669

This is from much more of a right-wing perspective than most books about conflict where religion plays a part (Israeli/Palestinian conflict, terrorism, conservative america, etc.) so its an interesting read, but I point it out here because there is a small part of the book set aside to criticizing the left, and Chomsky in particular, that made my rethink my beliefs.

>> No.797671

>>797653

By an ideologue who believes in a literal concept of "true evil".

Not to say it isn't beneficial to get every viewpoint, but he's not someone I, personally, could ever take seriously.

He disregards motives, factors leading up to behavior, and dismisses them as simply the bad guys. I think an "us vs. them" mentality such as his is very dangerous, and contributes to the popularity of regimes such as Bush's.

>> No.797687

>>797671
The whole book was about the factors that lead up to behavior, both of the west and jihadis. And I'm pretty sure his "true evil" just meant "detrimental to the progress of civilization".

>> No.797691

>>797687
There's no such thing as the "progress of civilization"

>> No.797697

>>797691
Family-centered to team-centered. Obviously it's a Eurocentric idea of "progress", but he makes a pretty good case for why team-centric societies are superior to family-centric societies (or at least tend to conquer them).

>> No.797699

Fukuyama would be an eloquant representative of neoconservatism.

I've only read extracts of his, but I'll certainly read some more.

>> No.797734

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>> No.797906

Posts that go bump in the night.

>> No.797910

No Apology by Mitt Romney
Also, anything by Ayn Rand