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Post books here that are good and about politics. Because I'm not a fascist like Smat you may discuss them should you wish.

This thread can (and should) also be used to denounce Smat.

I recommend Arun Kundnani's The Muslims Are Coming. It's a very good analysis of the war on terror. Would recommend.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/1765-the-muslims-are-coming
 
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Do they have to be contemporary? If not Edward Said's Orientalism is an excellent post colonialism read. Also any of Antonio Gramsci's works on cultural hegemony and critiques of economism.
 
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Manning Marable made some sterling attemps to correct the establishment-led revisionism of the civil rights era. I haven't read his biography of Malcom X, but 'The Capitalist Underdevelopment of Black America' and 'Living Black History' are essential reads for anyone interested in that period.

Hesitant to recommend philosophy without implicitly advocating navel-gazing, but the fragments that I've read in Walter Benjamin's 'Arcade's Project' and Susan Buck-Morss's hermeneutics on that work (I forget the name of the latter) are probably the most profound meditations on modernity that I've ever read. Benjamin's death (suicide? Murder?) robbed the 20th Century of maybe its most exciting, energising Western thinker.
 
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Ronald Ramdin''s The making of the black working class in Britain.
 

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Do they have to be contemporary? If not Edward Said's Orientalism is an excellent post colonialism read. Also any of Antiono Gramsci's works on cultural hegemony and critiques of economism.

You may recommend whatever the hell you like.

Just remember, you can't spell authoritarianism without smat.
 

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I second Ian. I listened to Between the World and Me on audio book, easily the best performance I have heard in the format. Completely engrossing, got through it in one sitting.

Maybe indirectly a political book.
 

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Why not the making of the white working class ? you know we are just as important aswell.

See E.P Thompson for that, he was a leftist though, so you might be disappointed.
 

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I suggest you watch 13th the documentary by netflix I bet you already have though.
 

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A Journey: Tony Blair

A hero for any non fascist Corbyn supporting Labour voter and a fantastic autobiography.
 
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fascist*

The word has lost all meaning.
 
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A Journey: Tony Blair

A hero for any non fascist Corbyn supporting Labour voter and a fantastic autobiography.

Tfw when you're not even smart enough to outdumb johnnytodd..
 
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16248578-the-real-north-korea

If you view North Korea as a state ran by irrational ideologues, this is worth a read. Gives a brief history of the Korean peninsula during Japanese Empire, the formation of Kim Il Sung's government under Soviet guidance, the Korean war, life under Kim Il Sung, how North Korea played the communist powers of China and Russia against each other for foreign aid, the North Korean famine, life under Kim Jung-il, the refusal of the DRPK to give into Vietnam/China style market reforms, the black market and technological reforms occurring on the sino-Korean border, relationship with South Korea. While North Korea appears to be an irrational Orwellian nightmare (and in some respects it is), this will help you put into perspective the logic of the regime and why current events (Trump's potential blowhard foreign policy) most likely will never work on this government. Accessible history book, well-written by a former Soviet exchange student that lived in Pyongyang in the 1980's. Nice brush up on a pretty misunderstood country.
 

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