The Political Compass

Anders Aslund

A study of the Russian paradox of the success of capitalism and the failure of democracy.
Aldous Huxley

Satirical attack on a future utopian state.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Hugely important for some social libertarians and most social authoritarians significantly on the left. National leaders in the latter camp have generally attempted to make the state stronger, rather than work towards the Marxian principle that it should gradually wither away.
Adam Smith

18th Century economist and philosopher Adam Smith wrote this first-ever masterpiece in political economy. A champion of the free market, Smith was nevertheless not as entirely laissez-faire as his fans on both the libertarian and authoritarian right often claim. They tend to ignore the "moral" side of his teachings, which are reflected in his distrust of the motivations of businessmen.
Giovanni Arrighi

A reexamination of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations with China and East Asia taking the reigns of capitalism from the west.

Wilhelm Reich

The Mass Psychology of Fascism

Repudiates the idea that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality

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Hans J. Eysenck

He constructed a tough-tender axis to the political personality
Theodor Adorno

... of the celebrated Frankfurt School blazed new trails in the investigation of prejudice
Stars Come Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture

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Adolf Hitler

A rightfully vilified work and stark reminder of the dangers of history repeating itself, an important narrative on an ideology and political force that would engulf a nation.

Mein Kampf
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