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Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Human Events Online ^
| May 31, 2005
| Human Events
Posted on 05/31/2005 8:48:47 AM PDT by hinterlander
HUMAN EVENTS asked a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders to help us compile a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Each panelist nominated a number of titles and then voted on a ballot including all books nominated. A title received a score of 10 points for being listed No. 1 by one of our panelists, 9 points for being listed No. 2, etc. Appropriately, The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, earned the highest aggregate score and the No. 1 listing.
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To: christabel
Also "Silent Spring" should be on the list. It is but it should be placed higher. It could take the place of Darwin's books which should not be listed at all.
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posted on
05/31/2005 10:19:55 AM PDT
by
Bernard Marx
(Don't make the mistake of interpreting my Civility as Servility)
To: newheart
Communism and socialism predates Darwin. Eugenics was not related to evolution; the discovery of the mechanism of inheritance after 1900 was what made eugenics into a *viable* movement. Eugenics crossed all divisions of political ideology and religion. As for the Nazis, they were too stupid to have read Darwin. All they did was grab onto slogans they couldn't understand.
142
posted on
05/31/2005 10:20:01 AM PDT
by
CarolinaGuitarman
(There is no such thing as a noble savage.)
To: ExcursionGuy84
The Bible (in all versions) can NEVER be a Destructive/Harmful or Evil-Inducing work! Not a student of history are you?
To: monday
I was nearly disembowled on a thread of Keynes defenders. It all got put right, though, when one of them accused von Mises of being in favor of trade tariffs and then finally back-tracked and said he was confused about who he was talking about.
144
posted on
05/31/2005 10:22:07 AM PDT
by
SittinYonder
(Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
To: xJones
"Out of curiosity, has anyone here ever managed to read through either "The Communist Manifesto" or "Mein Kampf"? "
I had to read the Commie Manifesto and Mein Kampf as a class assignment in High School. Both were incredibly boring. I don't recall if I were able to get through the entire books. But I do remember it was insightful from the stand point Marx and Hitler outlined and fully disclosed their evil deeds and ideas. It left no doubt of their intentions...
To: Pat79thST
Agree completely on the Foucault. His work is as pernicious as anything on the list. I'd have thrown a couple more PoMo's in there - a Derrida, perhaps. Taken as themselves they really aren't much more than intellectual curiosities; taken for the harm they've caused they're intellectual sludge landmines.
I'd also throw in Against Our Will by Susan Brownmiller. Feminism was still teetering toward moderation and respectability when that hate-filled little abscess was published. It has been likened to Mein Kampf for a couple of reasons, principally that although insignificant enough in itself it provided a focus for hatred among a hate-prone population and a ready-made scapegoat on which to focus.
To: BikerNYC
"Harmful books? No. No harmful books. Harmful people."
Books are just a medium for transmitting ideas. Books are not harmful but the ideas in some are. Socialism, Fascism, and Islam are all ideas whose founders have caused most of the suffering and death in the world.
If you like, think of the ideas in some books as diseases, while the books used to transmit those diseases are the inoculation needles.
Some books carry cures, others carry death and destruction.
147
posted on
05/31/2005 10:24:29 AM PDT
by
monday
To: Right Wing Professor
All this hatred for a biological theory."Darwinism" didn't stay in the realm of biology. The name was misappropriated for various "social Darwinist" theories. If ideas have consequences, Charles Darwin has much to answer for.
To: ConservativeMan55
"Wow!
Is that really a childrens book?"
Yes. Yes it is. Incredible, ain't it.
To: RansomOttawa
So Darwin is responsible for those who misinterperet his theorys.
Tell my why the bibles authors are'nt responsible for those who misinterperet that book.
To: hinterlander
THE 2005 IRS TAX CODE
151
posted on
05/31/2005 10:28:32 AM PDT
by
Radioactive
(I'm on the radio..so I'm radioactive)
To: snowsislander
How can Das Kapital be harmful if NOBODY can understand it? I took a look at it. An incomprehensible BORE!
152
posted on
05/31/2005 10:29:10 AM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
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To: hinterlander
To: hinterlander
THE IRS TAX CODE......SORRY...YOU SAID 19TH & 20TH CENTURY
154
posted on
05/31/2005 10:29:41 AM PDT
by
Radioactive
(I'm on the radio..so I'm radioactive)
To: hinterlander
That must be the Hardcover list. My guess is that Noam Chomsky has 5 of the top 10 on the comic book list.
155
posted on
05/31/2005 10:30:03 AM PDT
by
azcap
To: hinterlander
How about Leaves of Grass - by Walt Whitman? ;>
To: hinterlander; Doctor Raoul; kristinn; hellinahandcart; cyborg; NYC GOP Chick; Lil'freeper
I'd have to put Putting People First by Bill Clinton and Al Gore on that list.
157
posted on
05/31/2005 10:31:53 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(De gustibus non est disputandum)
To: KC_Conspirator
One other book that deserves and honorable mention is:
Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinsky
Publication date: 1966 Ah yes. Hillary's bible.
To: <1/1,000,000th%
"Silent Spring should've made the top ten."
Yes, an argument could be made that it is the biggest killer of them all. Millions of people have died of malaria since the banning of DDT. Before that malaria had been almost wiped out in India and South America.
159
posted on
05/31/2005 10:32:55 AM PDT
by
monday
To: mc5cents
160
posted on
05/31/2005 10:33:04 AM PDT
by
KC_Conspirator
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