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Best anti-socialism books?
Posted on 06/23/2003 10:29:29 AM PDT by Boston Bunker
After searching the web, libraries and bookstores I've come up short so now I come here to seek help.
I'm looking for the titles and authors of the best books available that assail socialism. I’ve read some Hayek and Friedman but I’m looking for something more contemporary with a strong focus on modern day Europe.
Thankx
TOPICS: Books/Literature; Society
KEYWORDS: antisocialism; books; faq; socialism
To: Boston Bunker
The Law - Frederic Bastiat (100 copies for $150 @ Laissez Faire Books)
The Road to Serfdom- F.A. Hayek
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posted on
06/23/2003 10:41:54 AM PDT
by
AdamSelene235
(Like all the jolly good fellows, I drink my whiskey clear....)
To: Boston Bunker
"Atlas Shrugged" Ayn Rand
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posted on
06/23/2003 11:13:05 AM PDT
by
camle
(no fool like a damned fool)
To: Boston Bunker
oops! almost forgot:
Anthem, Ayn Rand
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posted on
06/23/2003 11:13:27 AM PDT
by
camle
(no fool like a damned fool)
To: Boston Bunker
Ayn Rand's book on Capitalism. I cant remember exactly what its called. Or, Any other book by Ayn Rand.
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posted on
06/23/2003 12:30:41 PM PDT
by
rrr51
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To: Quatermass
Read "The Fountainhead" last year and was captivated by it. I have heard since that the protagonist was modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright.
However, "The Road to Serfdom" should probably top this list.
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posted on
06/23/2003 5:13:37 PM PDT
by
Sam Cree
(HHDerelict)
To: Boston Bunker
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else - Hernando de Soto
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posted on
06/24/2003 8:03:54 AM PDT
by
AdamSelene235
(Like all the jolly good fellows, I drink my whiskey clear....)
To: AdamSelene235
Thank you very much. You have no idea how hard it was to find a book like this. As you can see with all the previous replies all literary disusions on the subject seem to date back thirty or more years. All written before the mess that is now current Europe. Plus although I agree with some of Ayn Rand I am nowhere close to being an Objectivist.
Thanks again
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posted on
06/25/2003 7:52:15 AM PDT
by
Boston Bunker
(Live from the People's Republic)
To: Boston Bunker
Bastiat is old but very compact and effective.
De Soto is probably one of the most important authors living today. He deals more with the developing world than with Europe but his insights are critical to ending poverty and injustice.
David Friedman is just cool.
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posted on
06/25/2003 8:17:39 AM PDT
by
AdamSelene235
(Like all the jolly good fellows, I drink my whiskey clear....)
To: Boston Bunker
Speaking of Friedman, I forgot.
David Friedman - The Machinery of Freedom.
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posted on
06/25/2003 8:20:10 AM PDT
by
AdamSelene235
(Like all the jolly good fellows, I drink my whiskey clear....)
To: Boston Bunker
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt
Human Action, Ludwig von Mises
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Stéphane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Panné, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin Edited by Mark Kramer, Translated by Jonathan Murphy
1984, George Orwell
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posted on
07/28/2003 8:11:35 AM PDT
by
boris
(The deadliest Weapon of Mass Destruction in History is a Leftist With a Word Processor)
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