I’m someone still recovering from republican/libertarian capitalist brainwashing. Would you know of a good book or two on this subject? It’s fascinating to me.
Like on which topic? Capitalist critiques, options for a better society, inequality?
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (easy) A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey (medium)
I would recommend David Graeber or however it’s spelled writing. Any time you read anyone’s opinion take it with a grain of salt but Debt and Bullshit Jobs address many things, some of which can be taken as criticism of capitalism.
James C Scott is another anthropolgist and his most accessible book is probably seeing like a state. It’s relatively even handed in it’s critques of capitalism as it focuses on states including the USSR. It highlights quite well how markets and states can crush humanity because they have wildly different goals to people.
You probably don’t want to jump right into hardcore theory so this might be a gentler intro into asking why society is the way it is and how it might be different without expressly pushing a particular political theory.
Books:
- Manifesto of the Communist Party (Audio, Audio)
- The State and Revolution (Audio)
- Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (Audio)
- Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution (1900) (Audio)
- The Foundations of Leninism (Audio)
- Dialectical and Historical Materialism (Audio)
- ON PRACTICE (Audio)
- ON CONTRADICTION (Audio)
- Blackshirts And Reds (Audio)
Texts:
- Why Socialism? (Audio)
- The Principles of Communism (Audio)
- Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Audio)
- Economic Manuscripts: Value, Price and Profit, Karl Marx 1865 (Audio)
- Wage Labour and Capital (Audio)
- On Authority (Audio)
Videos:
- The Difference Between Socialism, Communism, and Marxism Explained by a Marxist - YouTube
- Your Democracy is a Sham and Here’s Why: - YouTube
- Socialism for Absolute Beginners - YouTube
- A Future Beyond Capitalism? Socialism Explained. - YouTube
- Michael Parenti lecture (1986) - YouTube (Yellow Parenti)
- What “Fascism is capitalism in decay” means - YouTube
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