Recommend Political Books You Think Everybody Should Read Here

I've recently gained a larger interest in the growing power of the East and would like some recommendations for books relating to the political power of China and the east. The New Silk Road by Peter Frankopan was recommended to me and I would like to know your thoughts?
 
Good books ---

I recommend the following two books by Robert Heinlein. He is most known as a SciFi author. But his books should cause one to think.

Starship Troopers ---- dont waste your time watching the movie. The movie misses the whole point of the book. The book explores the question - what is the relationship between rights and freedoms and how do you balance them with duties and responsibilities.

Then we have a couple of others ---
-The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - The moon is a penal colony of earth and decided it wants to be free. Then if they get free what kind of govt do hey want and how to set it up. One old codger says "look at every form of govt ever tried on Earth and dont choose one of them because they all failed somehow."
- Time Enough for Love - a guy lives for 4000+ years and says the most important thing about living that long is he had "time enough to learn how to love".

Try them you might enjoy them plus Mr. Heinlein tosses in enough political ideas to cause you to think a bit.
 
If you are a Conservative, or non-Leftist, this is the sort of book you should buy.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Defending_the_Left.html?id=stHZ9QNAC9AC
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6655751-defending-the-left

It's hardly the only one, but it's the sort of book you should buy and read carefully and critically making notes in the margins as you go. Even though it was written in the 90's it's still as relevant today as it was then. It gives you all of the Left's major positions and arguments for them. You simply annotate these with counter arguments and you pretty much end up with a playbook to crush every Leftist position thoroughly, completely, and irrefutably. I find Driver's version particularly useful because you have the advantage of history on your side today. That is, what he argues for 20 + years ago and what is today can be compared. It's a damning documentation of the failure of the Left and their ideas that you can use against them.
 
American Marxism Hardcover
by Mark R. Levin (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/American-Marxism-Mark-R-Levin/dp/150113597X

The seven-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, Fox News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin explains how the dangers he warned against in the “timely yet timeless” (David Limbaugh, author of Jesus Is Risen) bestseller Liberty and Tyranny have come to pass.

In 2009, Mark R. Levin galvanized conservatives with his unforgettable manifesto Liberty and Tyranny, by providing a philosophical, historical, and practical framework for halting the liberal assault on Constitution-based values. That book was about standing at the precipice of progressivism’s threat to our freedom and now, over a decade later, we’re fully over that precipice and paying the price.

In American Marxism, Levin explains how the core elements of Marxist ideology are now pervasive in American society and culture—from our schools, the press, and corporations, to Hollywood, the Democratic Party, and the Biden presidency—and how it is often cloaked in deceptive labels like “progressivism,” “democratic socialism,” “social activism,” and more. With his characteristic trenchant analysis, Levin digs into the psychology and tactics of these movements, the widespread brainwashing of students, the anti-American purposes of Critical Race Theory and the Green New Deal, and the escalation of repression and censorship to silence opposing voices and enforce conformity. Levin exposes many of the institutions, intellectuals, scholars, and activists who are leading this revolution, and provides us with some answers and ideas on how to confront them.

As Levin writes: “The counter-revolution to the American Revolution is in full force. And it can no longer be dismissed or ignored for it is devouring our society and culture, swirling around our everyday lives, and ubiquitous in our politics, schools, media, and entertainment.” And, like before, Levin seeks to rally the American people to defend their liberty.

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I am certain someone already said it but I'll say it anyway.

Mein Kampf
The Communist Manifesto
Little Red Book
 
'Radical Son' by David Horowitz.

Interesting take on the Black Panthers as 'Street Thugs' rather than 'Black Liberation Vanguard'.
 
Jack said:
'Radical Son' by David Horowitz.

Interesting take on the Black Panthers as 'Street Thugs' rather than 'Black Liberation Vanguard'.
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That viewpoint will not win him many friends in Oakland (the home of the Black Panthers). At least in certain circles here they are still very much revered. It's not uncommon to see people wearing shirts like this:

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cawacko said:
That viewpoint will not win him many friends in Oakland (the home of the Black Panthers). At least in certain circles here they are still very much revered. It's not uncommon to see people wearing shirts like this:
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"Marxism is my Hustle". Said one of the Panthers. Yes. The Panthers were considered 'vanguard of the oppressed peoples' by White Leftists. The author was a 'red diapers baby', his parents were Communist Party members who grew up in NYC in Housing Cooperatives that had been 'colonized' by Party members.
So he had a solid background in The Movement by the time he got to Berkeley.
The 'Oakland Community Learning Center' was the author's idea to Huey Newton. Later, receiving State and City funds. Which also funded the Hit Squad that killed one of his friends (Betty Van Patter) among a dozen others. This revelation was like the 'Khrushchev Report' that shocked the Old Communists (Stalin's liquidation of not only farmer's that didn't want to give up their land, but many Party members too). The author saw this as the same Betrayal, Black Panthers (or Huey Newton) killing other Panthers and Supporters.
Radical chic was support for Huey Newton and the Black Panthers, to the Left, a few killings weren't going to spoil the 'Leadership of the Oppressed People and the Revolution'.
 
Lowaicue said:
For people who truly understand American politics:

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde.

Why? Because no book is ever going to persuade any voter to change his or her mind. All the do is preach to the choir, so it would be better for all to read the wit and wisdom of the above.
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wrong.

for totalitarians this is true.

as for freedom lover, we make converts everyday.

this is why freedom lovers love free speech, and tyrants love censorship.
 
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