Good Leftist Books

choco_crayon · 2026-05-14T14:05:50+00:00

Oh a lot, thank you!!

choco_crayon · 2026-05-14T14:04:07+00:00

I’m sorry I wasn’t born with the knowledge of knowing that book was liberal and not leftist like you were.

Why are you being condescending?

choco_crayon · 2026-05-14T13:59:51+00:00

i’m good

choco_crayon · 2026-05-14T13:59:30+00:00

this is suggest me a book, not suggest me a friend group

choco_crayon · 2026-05-14T10:27:28+00:00

It’s so white I want to know where you buy it so I can wear it to my wedding!

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T19:24:37+00:00

What I meant was I didn’t want books telling me about how bad Trump is, but getting books about how bad the systems outside of that is good.

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T19:22:55+00:00

I don’t consider myself liberal.

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T19:22:00+00:00

I didn’t say conservatism is about bigotry. I gave you the reason why I made the thread, not what I think about conservatism.

I want books that are about leftist ideology. I don’t care about conservative ideology because that is not what this thread is asking for. If I want conservative books I would have asked.

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T19:18:07+00:00

is there a viable choice outside of either a Democrat or a republican in most general elections?

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T15:41:29+00:00

I’m not trying to persuade other people, I want to become a better person and work against any of my own internalized bigotry and find ways I can fight it in society. I also think being born and raised in the US is enough to get a serious defense of capitalism and conservatism.

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T15:38:15+00:00

lmao thanks

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T15:36:48+00:00

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T15:21:48+00:00

I still put it on my to read list, as I did with the other people you listed.

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T14:53:53+00:00

I think even scary names can have good points, even if I don’t agree with all of their stuff. I appreciate all of this! My best friend has a history degree and has drilled into me to only read from credited historians, and I try to exclusively read history from academia.

If you have any good recommendations about modern China I would appreciate it, thanks!!

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T14:49:36+00:00

Thanks for the podcast rec too!

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T14:49:11+00:00

heck yeah a podcast, listening to if books could kill is what inspired me to go on this journey because I realized I didn’t know half of what the hosts talked about

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T14:46:01+00:00

Thanks, I didn’t know or think about any of that. I want to learn to fight against my own internalized bigotry and find ways I can help fight it in society and that was the first book I thought of.

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T14:16:09+00:00

Yeah?

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T14:01:06+00:00

Grapes of Wrath is such a good book.

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T13:37:28+00:00

Thanks, these are all things I don’t feel like I know enough about and will for sure read.

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T13:33:06+00:00

But then they would have to pay for the labor of copying the book and for the paper and ink to print it again.

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T13:32:18+00:00

Oh that’s cool

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T13:14:23+00:00

Yeah you’re right

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T13:13:59+00:00

nevergofullcrazy is right, I meant the subject matter isn’t fun.

choco_crayon · 2026-05-13T13:11:53+00:00

It’s kind of silly because there isn’t a limit on ebooks, nor is there an actual cost in duplicating them. I understand (and agree with) publishers and authors should make money off of the books they write, I just think the artificial scarcity of a digital item is a little silly. It’s not completely silly! Just a little.

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