A while ago, I posted this question on Mastodon: "Leftists and anarchists of the #Fediverse, If you had to recommend only one #book to push a centrist right down our pipeline, which one would it be?". The shelf below has been made with the responses provided. Want to attract a centrist to the left? Try these out!
The Leftist/Anarchist pipeline Público
Agregado y comisariado por Bernie the Wordsmith
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The Dispossessed por Ursula K. Le Guin
5 estrellas
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down …
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West por Gregory Maguire
5 estrellas
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her …
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Tools for Conviviality por Ivan Illich
Tools for Conviviality is a 1973 book by Ivan Illich about the proper use of technology. It was published only …
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Seeing Like a State por James C. Scott
4 estrellas
Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or …
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The Dawn of Everything por David Graeber, David Wengrow
4 estrellas
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike-either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. …
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years por David Graeber
3 estrellas
The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans have lived in societies divided …
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Los surcos del azar por Paco Roca
5 estrellas
A través de los recuerdos de Miguel Ruiz, republicano español exiliado en Francia, Paco Roca reconstruye la historia de La …
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Mutual Aid por Peter Kropotkin
4 estrellas
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a 1902 collection of anthropological essays by Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter …
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The Shock Doctrine por Naomi Klein
5 estrellas
An introduction to "disaster capitalism" argues that the global free market has exploited crises, violence, and shock in the past …
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No Logo por Naomi Klein
No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament to detail the insidious practices and far-reaching effects of corporate marketing—and the …
