Most harmful books of the 19th & 20th centuries

San Antonio Express-News ^ | 01/14/2010 | Source: www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=7591

[Responsibility2nd]

1. "The Communist Manifesto" (Marx and Engels)

2. "Mein Kampf" (Hitler)

3. "Quotations from Chairman Mao" (Mao)

4. "The Kinsey Report" (Kinsey)

5. "Democracy and Education" (Dewey)

6. "Das Kapital" (Marx)

7. "The Feminine Mystique" (Friedan)

8. "The Course of Positive Philosophy" (Comte)

9. "Beyond Good and Evil" (Nietzsche)

10. "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" (Keynes)

[JimRed]

Rules for Radicals didn’t make the top ten?

[dfwgator]

My other favorite Nietzsche movie reference, from ‘Blazing Saddles’:

Howard Johnson: Y’know, Nietzsche says: “Out of chaos comes order.”
Olson Johnson: Oh, blow it out your ass, Howard.

[Responsibility2nd]

See post 10.

I bet if this was a 2010 list, then yeah. Alinsky would be there.

[reaganaut]

Agreed.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Responsibility2nd.

[BenKenobi]

Disagree with the list.

1. On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
2. Communist Manifesto (Marx + Engels)
3. The population bomb (Paul Ehrlich)
4. The deterioration of the British Race (Francis Galton)
5. Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler)
6. Three essays on sexuality (Sigmund Freud)
7. Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male (Alfred Kinsey)
8. Silent Spring (Rachel Carlson)
9. Beyond Good and Evil (Neitzsche)
10. Utilitarianism (John Stuart Mill)

[SunkenCiv]

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[BenKenobi]

Honourable mention to Dewey. I think I’ll have him replace Silent Spring.

1. On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
2. Communist Manifesto (Marx + Engels)
3. The population bomb (Paul Ehrlich)
4. The deterioration of the British Race (Francis Galton)
5. Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler)
6. Three essays on sexuality (Sigmund Freud)
7. Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male (Alfred Kinsey)
8. On Education and Democracy (Dewey)
9. Beyond Good and Evil (Neitzsche)
10. Utilitarianism (John Stuart Mill)

[Uncle Miltie]

Agree with 1-7 and 10. Don’t know enough about 8 and 9, but based on the rest of the list, I suspect they’re right on the mark too.

[Cacique]

Best selling book in the middle east after the Koran.

[null and void]

Will no one say Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health?

[Cacique]

Missing also is the protocols of the elders of zion which contributed to the holocaust. Also a major work that influenced the communist parties of the west were the prison papers of Antonio Gramsci whom Alinsky stole liberaly from.

I would also add that Juan Peron was the first proponent of the “third way” and was influential in the founding of the phony non-aligned movement. And where are Lenins’ ‘State and Revolution” and “What is to be Done”? He revolutionized Marx and invented modern revolutionary communism, He is still the major influence on the modern left far more than Trotsky will ever be.

[TruthWillWin]

The Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich 1968

[Grimmy]

How about:
Eugenics, marriage and birth control by William J. Robinson MD.

http://www.archive.org/stream/eugenicsmarriage00robiuoft#page/n0/mode/2up

It was from the “eugenics” movement late 19th/early 20th century that Hitler got his ideas for racial “improvement”.

And, while the theories held sway in the US, lots of folk ended up castrated and lobotomized for the sin of being from the wrong side of the tracks.

[Fiji Hill]

The Population Bomb is a good candidate for the list. In 1969, I was in the audience as its author Paul Ehrlich addressed the students at Occidental College. If I remember correctly, he predicted a catastrophic global famine unless the middle class birth-controlled itself out of existence. He also urged all of his male listeners to get a vasectomy.

[Grimmy]

You could also add the various publications on Geopolitik in an omnibus sort of thing.

If you wanted to expand the list to add things that turned out to be dangerous for our enemies...

How about Advanced Base Operations in Micronesia by Earl Hancock “Pete” Ellis, (Lt Col, USMC)

It was his work that prodded the USMC into developing amphibious assault capability, in direct refutation of the common belief of the time that Gallipoli proved such operations were not doable against defended beaches in the industrial era.

WW2 would have been a much harder row to hoe if there hadn't already been substantial effort to produce that amphib capability.

[LiteKeeper]

The Origin of Species, Darwit

[Slings and Arrows]

Hey, me too! I did NOT get CitR.

[Oceander]

No such thing. A book is like a loaded gun: a tool that is no more, and no less, dangerous, than the mind behind the hand that picks it up.