Reddit reviews The Open Society and Its Enemies: New One-Volume Edition

Orwell was literally killing your types in the spanish civil war, you WANT a 1984 style society, yet you accuse others of It, that is doublethink.

For anyone that still thinks the speech of stalinists, fascists and nazis should be respected:https://www.amazon.com.br/Open-Society-Its-Enemies/dp/0691158134

In no particular order:

• The Moral Animal. Robert Wright.
  
• The Open Society and Its Enemies. Karl Popper.
  
• Albion’s Seed. D. H. Fischer.
  
• *Zero to One.* P. Thiel.
  
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
  
• Critique of Pure Reason. I. Kant.
  
• A Treatise on Human Nature. Hume.
  
• The Death of the Liberal Class. C. Hedges.
  
• A Theory of Justice. Rawls.
  
• The Origin of the Work of Art. M. Heidegger.
  
• The Denial of Death. E. Becker.
  
• American Colonies. A. Taylor.
  
• The Selfish Gene. R. Dawkins.
  
• Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud.
  
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces. J. Campbell.
  
• The Birth of the Artist. Otto Rank.
  
• Modern Man in Search of a Soul. Jung.
  
• The Feminine Mystique. Betty Friedan.
  
• Sexual Personae. Camille Paglia.
  
• How to Win Friends and Influence People. D. Carnegie.
  
  Sorry I got tired of making links. I’m on my phone.

While these are not all specifically about religion, here are a few things that I think everyone should read at some point in their lives.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (this is where the term 'paradigm shift' came from).

Karl Popper on politics

Karl Popper on science

Get some historical perspective on the philosophy of science

The Power of Myth

A History of God

An academic book in the same era and vein is Popper's The Open Society and It's Enemies. Specifically the volume on Marx.

I wish Popper was alive today so he could write another volume on Economic Libertarianism and the Tea Party.

Add Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies to the neoliberal reading list.

Edit: It's probably one of the top five most important liberal texts of the second half of the twentieth century and clearly situates liberalism against both varieties of illiberal Hegelianism (fascism and marxism).

A lot of social justice type courses today aren't really academic so I wouldn't put too much faith in them, they mostly revolve around arts and crafts projects, watching movies etc.

Some books to consider:

The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages

The German Historicist Tradition

Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders - The Golden Age - The Breakdown

The Open Society and Its Enemies: Plato, Hegel, Marx

Read what you wrote again and notice all the generalizations you made, all the stereotypes and judgements and realize that is EXACTLY the kind of thing you're adamant about fighting against.

Also, what you're doing is called historicism. If you're truly interested in a discussion about why it's toxic and how it leads to horrible outcomes check this book out sometime. It's online free someplaces.

"The Open Society and Its Enemies" https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691158134/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_e1YKzbN5FPJEQ

If anyone has the authority to speak about Nazis and the destruction they caused it would be someone who lived through it.

Respecting the right of freedom of speech and open debate and discussion, while at the same time urging caution with recklessly judging an entire group of individuals under the umbrella of one belief is anything but racist.

\>A summary of why liberalism trends towards fascism and not progressivism?

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It's not the dumbest thing I've ever read on reddit, but it's pretty damn close.

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Here is a good book for you.

https://www.amazon.com/Open-Society-Its-Enemies-One/dp/0691158134

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Now go the fuck away and learn something.

https://www.amazon.com/Human-Nature-new-Preface-Revised/dp/0674016386

https://www.amazon.com/Sociobiology-New-Synthesis-Twenty-Fifth-Anniversary/dp/0674002350

https://www.amazon.com/Blank-Slate-Modern-Denial-Nature/dp/1501264338

https://www.amazon.com/Open-Society-Its-Enemies/dp/0691158134

Here's a start. All these were instrumental in dismantling communist ideology.