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The Political Compass ™ Reading List - Libertarian Left

Under capitalism, man exploits man.
Under communism, it's just the opposite.
J.K.Galbraith

     

  • Jonathan Chait
      The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics

      Stinging criticism of supply side economics and those who put it into practice.

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • Norton Garfinkle
      The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy

      Criticises America's current system as overly favoring the wealthy, and offers a new economic vision to correct the imbalance.

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • Michael Lind
      The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life

      Critique of U.S. policy since the Cold War with a post Iraq War twist.

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • Naomi Klein
      The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

      Scathing review of the damages of globalised capitalism when used as a method for recovery after a disaster.

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • Chris Hedges
      American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America

      A blistering attack on the Christian Right.

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • Dan Perjovschi
      Mad Cow, Bird Flu, Global Village: The Art of Dan Perjovschi

      Social critique of major global issues through cartoons.

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello
      The New Spirit of Capitalism

      A study of the reorganization of capitalism since the 1960s.

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • Clayborne Carson
      The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

      A posthumous autobiography constructed out of Dr. King's writings, sermons, and speeches.

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • Upton Sinclair
      Jungle

      Classic novella on the plight of the factory worker and excesses of American Capitalism at the turn on the 20th century.

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • Thom Hartmann
      Unequal Protection: The rise of corporate dominance and the theft of human rights

      Argues that expanding US corporate power is accompanied by a corresponding loss of people power, and mostly because of a legal blunder in 1886.

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • Eric Alterman and Mark Green
      THE BOOK ON BUSH: How George W. (Mis)leads America

      Provocative critique of the US presidency

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • Shadia B.Drury
    Leo Strauss And The American Right

    The author identifies the late professor of philosophy at the University Chicago as the shadowy force behind the conservative revolution.

    [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com Amazon.com ]
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  • Jack Huberman
    THE BUSH-HATER'S HANDBOOK:A guide to the most appalling presidency of the past 100 years

    Crisply written ammunition for the President's most committed opponents

    [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • Jeff Walker
      The Ayn Rand Cult

      Deeply critical analysis of the Objectivist movement, Rand's leadership role, and the politics of her tightly knit inner circle.

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]       		 
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  • Benjamin Barber
    Jihad vs McWorld

    A political scientist argues that intolerant tribalism and international consumerism is a dangerous brew.

    [ More on this book at Amazon.com / Amazon.co.uk ]
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  • Howard Zinn
      A Peoples History of the United States

      A professor emeritus of political science at Boston University lets blacks, native Americans, women and labourers tell their own story.

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com]
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  • Thomas Frank
    One Market Under God

    An attack on extreme capitalism and market worshippers.

    [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • George Monbiot

    A leading UK columnist and environmental thinker - and scourge of the corporatists

      The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order

      "Tell people something they know already and they will thank you. Tell them something new and they will hate you for it."

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk ]
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      Captive State

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk ]
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      Anticapitalism

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk ]
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  • Emma Goldman
      Anarchism and other Essays

      Compelling work by the ground-breaking libertarian socialist and feminist.

      [ More on this book at amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • Al Franken
      Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them :
      A Fair and Balanced look at the Far Right.

      Hypertensive conservatives might want to take some medication before reading this one.

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • Ivan Illich

     

  • Nils Christie
      Crime Control as Industry

      An eye-opening challenge to crime and punishment hardliners.

      [ More on this book at Amazon.com ]       		 
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  • Pierre Bourdieu
      On Television

      The prominent French sociologist attacks dumbing down and the corporatised information industry

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk ]
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  • Naomi Tutu (editor)
      The Words of Desmond Tutu

      Selections from the Nobel Peace Prize winner's speeches, sermons and writings

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • William Blum
      Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

      Critics will call this a one-sided book; but it is an invaluable corrective to the establishment portrait of America as the world's greatest force for peace.

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • Michael Moore
      Stupid White Men

      Caustic and funny attack on corporate America and political hypocrisy by the Tom Paine of our age

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • George Orwell
      1984

      His chilling and prophetic masterpiece envisages a world where political leaders have manipulated the multitudes into uncritical acceptance of their power and party slogans
      War is Peace
      Ignorance is Strength
      Freedom is Slavery

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • Naomi Klein
      No Logo

      A devastating critique of globalisation, and arguments for change

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com Amazon.com ]
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  • Eric Schlosser
      Fast Food Nation

      Eye-opening investigation into the inner workings of unregulated or marginally regulated business and industry.

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com Amazon.com ]
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  • Thomas Paine

    This woefully neglected icon of free thought was not only a central figure in the American and French revolutions, but also came impressively close to kick-starting one in England.

    A free trader in the days when free trade meant minimising the risk of war and undermining the exploitation of the nation state, Paine also advocated social safety nets in anticipation of the welfare state.

    His danger to churches and governments was his ability to write in plain accessible language - and to ridicule pomp and power.

      The Rights of Man

      Literally the first serious formulation of human rights as a political concept

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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      The Age of Reason

      An often hilarious and thoroughly readable rebuff of church dogma and Old Testament morality

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • Noam Chomsky

    Love him or loathe him, Chomsky is one of today's great intellectuals; a champion of the libertarian left who writes in an accessible way and bombards the reader with stimulating new facts and arguments

      Rogue States: The role of force in World Affairs [ More on this book at Amazon.com Amazon.com / Amazon.co.uk ]
      HEGEMONY OR SURVIVAL: America's Quest for Global Dominance [ More on this book at Amazon.com / Amazon.co.uk ]
      The Chomsky Trilogy

      • Secrets, Lies and Democracy
      • The Prosperous Few and the Restless many
      • What Uncle Sam Really Wants

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk ]
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  • Ralph Nader

    US corporate watchdog who influenced the manufacture of safer cars and whose candidacy in the election of 2000 may have cost the Democrats the presidency. For Nader, it was only a choice between "Tweedledum and Tweedledumber" anyway.

      Cutting Corporate Welfare

      Nader attacks what, for some right-wingers, is the acceptable aspect of welfare.

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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      The Ralph Nader Reader

      A diverse and provocative read

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]
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  • Greg Palast
      The Best Democracy Money can Buy

      This investigative work by a former student of Milton Friedman unearths uncomfortable information for those who hold that what's good for the corporations is inevitably good for us all.

      [ More on this book at Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com ]       		 
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  • Peter Kropotkin

    Co-operation rather than competition is the key to survival according to this naturalist's fascinating take on Darwinism.

    A former Russian prince who abandoned privilege to side with the bolsheviks, he became equally critical of 'The new Tsars' and championed the cause of anarchism.

     

  • Tariq Ali

    Student radical turned journalist and film maker

     

  • J. K. Galbraith

    His Keynesian economic approach looks more radical in these days of neo-liberal orthodoxy





Last updated: Thursday 12 April 2012


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