i’ve read the green book by Gaddafi and i am halfway into 1984, i would appreciate some other books, with ones of opposing ideas to the few that i’ve already read just so i can get ideas from both sides but i don’t really mind too much
by Anxious-Hornet-6540
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I don’t have any suggestions for books with opposing ideas, but ones with similar ideas are The Handmaid’s Tale, Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, Brave New World, and Animal Farm.
Check out Justice bt Michael Sandel.
Against Empire and Blackshirts & Reds by Michael Parenti.
Who Rules the World and Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell would be a great follow-up to 1984 as it describes his real world experiences which inspired many of the concepts he explores in 1984.
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s History edited by Alec Dunn and others
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin
Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World by Todd Miller
Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by Avi Shlaim
The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe by Gideon Levy
Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe
Zionism and its Discontents: A Century of Radical Dissent in Israel/Palestine by Ran Greenstein
Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State by Jeff Halper
*The dawn of everything* by Davids Graeber and Wengrow
*Red deal* by Red Nation
*Washington bullets* by Vijay Prashad
*Liberalism* by Domenico Losurdo
*Capitalism* by Arundhati Roy
*The hundred years’ war on Palestine* by Rashid Khalidi
*The Jakarta method* by Vincent Bevins
The Prince
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan, it’s not explicitly political, but it provides some excellent insights into American politics.
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith has some good insights from the capitalist perspective, although the American right would consider a lot of his ideas communistic oddly enough.
Marx, Trotsky, and Engels are all worth giving some attention to from the communist/socialist perspective.
If you want to read psycopathic propaganda, Pete Hesgeth, the new secdef writes books. From the preview on Google, it looks like a rallying cry for violence against “the left” who is conveniently anyone who isn’t a Trumper.