I know Holla Forums overuses the term, but when I read (listened to the audio book) of these, my mind felt actually redpilled. It was the same intellectual high I got why I saw the black crime infographs for the first time on Holla Forums years ago. I mean seriously holy shitballs. I mean the beginning of a people's history when he spoke about how white indentured servants and black slaves pre-revolution interacted as equals and staged riots together up until the indentured servants were accepted as socially equal and were given a land after the servitude where before they'd be dirt poor post servitude. I mean i t blew my fucking mind
Post more literature like this (no 19th century shit pls)
Gravity's Rainbow & Against the Day if you want fiction. Also Zizek's "Violence" really got me into the whole shebang.
Levi Perry
Yeah. That's what they mean by redpilled. You feel like someone who knows the dark truth that everyone is afraid to admit.
Zachary Campbell
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Dylan Rivera
I know but I never would imagine someone could feel an intellectual high at something which explanation was tough to me when I was 11.
Jeremiah Sanders
I had a feeling ex Holla Forumsacks would like debt. I also can't stress enough how good that book is. Pretty comprehensive history of financial imperialism.
I also respect a lot that you were able to turn your opinions around on getting the real information.
I would suggest you read Mutual Aid next, its analysis of evolution and human society is second to none for dispelling any lingering "social (not) darwinism"
Jeremiah Ward
You have nothing of "value" other than your hwhite identity. Sad!
Nathaniel Scott
literally everything in A People's History is objective historical fact that is on the record
Hudson Foster
Even if you're an anarchist/libertarian I would reccomend this book. Wonderful debunking of both Cold War conservative and neoliberal propaganda bout how the USSR and Fascist Europe were "the same".
Owen Parker
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David Edwards
Actually that Howard Zinn book tells how most whites who were brought to the Americas were brought as slaves. That is the book that "redpilled" Jim Goad, back when he wrote "The Redneck Manifesto".
This is good at BTFOing conservatives who think the media is leftist
Isaiah Russell
This. Chomsky can really be one open your eyes.
Michael Rodriguez
are you 12? get off my fuckign board
Easton Jones
this is a great one. i read this book in one sitting from cover to cover. it was that good.
Cameron Smith
I didn't become a proper socialist until last year but I was a socdem from a young age after reading A Young People's History of the US which is just the youth version of Zinn's work.
Learning about the labour movement and what it achieved and how it was countered and eventually destroyed is key to putting people in the right mindset for radicalization.
James Miller
These are literally the two books that turned me from a liberal to a socialist.
Some people might not count fiction, but I do. Grapes of Wrath and The Dispossessed are pretty great. If you've ever had a hard time imagining what an anarchist society might actually look like, The Dispossessed is a deep and engaging exploration.
Jordan Fisher
Guy Debord is inaccessible fart sniffing of the worse kind. Hardly redpill material.
Jackson Phillips
Michael Hudson is a good alternative/companion to Graeber's book. It was actually Hudson's research on ancient Babylonian economies that first prompted Graeber to write Debt: The First 5000 Years.
Thomas Turner
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Daniel White
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Chase Gonzalez
we all learn at our own pace, my dude.
Logan Campbell
Debt is probably next up on my list of things to read. Anything I should know before going into it as a bit of a brainlet?
