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
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The Dispossessed por Ursula K. Le Guin
4,8 stars
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
5,0 stars
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 (Yale Agrarian Studies)
4,0 stars
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 Wengrow, David Graeber
3,9 stars
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
3,8 stars
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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Studies in Mutualist Political Economy por Kevin A. Carson
This book is an attempt to revive individualist anarchist political economy, to incorporate the useful developments of the last hundred …
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Los surcos del azar por Paco Roca
4,8 stars
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
4,5 stars
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
5,0 stars
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 …
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