Posted on 05/01/2015 11:22:28 AM PDT by fredericbastiat1
May 1 marks what is known as May Day, a celebration of international workers chosen by the socialists and Communists of the Second International to recognize the Haymarket affair in Chicago’s Haymarket Square of May 1886.
In order to ring in the holiday, we thought it apt to share 10 books on socialism and Communism and their impact on mankind.
1) The Marx-Engels Reader by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
This book contains the core works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, which provide the intellectual basis for socialism and Communism.
2) The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
One of the most powerful arguments against all forms of collectivism, Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom” is in many ways the foil to Marx and Engels, showing the disasters of central planning, and illustrating how finding a “middle path” with statism inevitably drags a people all the way there. We would also recommend Frédéric Bastiat’s “The Law” and Ludwig von Mises’ “Human Action,” among countless other titles.
3) The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by Various authors
The definitive compendium of atrocities committed worldwide under Communism from Stalin’s Russia to Mao’s China and everywhere in between, prior to the 21st century.
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You posted your whole blog “article” yesterday.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3284410/posts
What stopped you from posting the whole thing today?
Not to mention titles like 1984, Brave New World, and Atlas Shrugged.
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