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Thank you! I know it's tough to balance pragmatism and idealism, but goddammit, I'm sick of endless discussions that amount to jack shit. The left used to believe it could win!

And like most good American left-wing rhetoric, I'm pretty sure that phrase originated or was at least popularized by the Black Panthers.

If you're interested in reading more radical perspective on the commons, I recommend reading the work of Massimo De Angelis:

Start with his book The Beginning of History: Value Struggles and Global Capital, here: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=62F323FC4073EA6CF2C6586F50806911

Then his most recent book on Commons: Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism, here: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=961FEA9AF31094CA0280E0F92B353AF7



As for good non-market stuff, I recommend taking a look at:




Anthropology and the Economy of Sharing by Thomas Widlok:

https://www.amazon.com/Anthropology-Economy-Sharing-Thomas-Widlok/dp/1138945552

The World of the Gift by Jacques T. Godbout and Alain C. Caille:

https://www.amazon.com/World-Gift-Jacques-T-Godbout/dp/0773517510

http://www.mit.edu/~allanmc/godbout1.pdf

Well, politics is studied through the humanities (e.g. history and philosophy) and the social sciences (e.g. sociology and economics). Therefore politics is largely informed by these disciplines, or at the very least political actors usually try to establish legitimacy through these disciplines. There are also interdisciplinary fields of scholarship specifically devoted to what we generally refer to as politics; most notably political science and public administration. So it would stand to reason to look up some introductory books from these disciplines.

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My introductory recommendations for you, not all necessarily leftist:

For history A people's history of the United States by Zinn, Ways of the world by Strayer & Nelson

For philosophy What does it all mean? by Nagel, Think by Blackburn and What philosophy is by O'Hear; on the overlap of history and philosophy Radical Enlightenment by Israel (considering how important the enlightenment is for contemporary thought)

For sociology Sociological Theory by Ritzer & Stepnisky; politics from a sociological perspective Globalization and the state edited by Schinkel

For economics Economics by Stiglitz & Walsh; on the history of capitalism Talking to my daughter by Varoufakis

For political science Comparative government and politics by Hague, Harrop & McCormick

For public administration Implementing public policy by Hupe & Hill

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^(If you have trouble finding the books, try getting access to aaaaarg. More information on that in) ^(this subreddit's sidebar)^(.)

You can always google this stuff, it's pretty common

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/nelson-mandela-grandson-slams-israeli-apartheid-190707053146087.html

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and with regards to ethnic cleansing by Israel one of Israel's top archivists made a book an it because there was just so much of it but never reported by main stream

article about ethnic cleansing by Israel

https://www.globalresearch.ca/israels-scheme-bury-nakba/5683236

book

https://www.amazon.ca/Ethnic-Cleansing-Palestine-Ilan-Pappe/dp/1851685553

do it yourself training https://www.amazon.com/precinct-captains-guide-political-victory-ebook/dp/B01M4IG914/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1478469506&sr=1-1&keywords=precinct+captain%27s+guide+to+political+victory

I recently finished Stamped from the Beginning, by Ibram Kendi. Very important book on the history of anti-black racism, starting in the 1500s and moving on to the present day.

You should use James G. Carrier's A Handbook Of Economic Anthropology to deepen your arguments: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=5B96D5AF8434794151D597BBA4590CB5

Are you familiar with anything on commons and commoning as an alternative?

If you're not, I recommend Derek Wall new book Elinor Ostrom's Rules for Radicals: Cooperative Alternatives Beyond Markets and States as an intro: https://www.amazon.com/Elinor-Ostroms-Rules-Radicals-Alternatives/dp/0745399355/


Then I recommend reading the work of Massimo De Angelis:

Start with his book The Beginning of History: Value Struggles and Global Capital, here: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=62F323FC4073EA6CF2C6586F50806911

Then his most recent book on Commons: Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism, here: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=961FEA9AF31094CA0280E0F92B353AF7



The "economic calculation" nonsense is dealt with very well in John O'Neill's book The Market: Ethics, Knowledge and Politics, here: https://libcom.org/library/market-john-oneill


The Hayekian version is dealt with in Philip Mirowski's work:

The knowledge we have lost in information : the history of information in modern economics: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=4BDEF554A44E489287DEDB3F08FF8B53


Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=F74EBFD5AAA65A8ADD74A3AA8A56EEA0

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3. "Money always evolves in the following four stages, collectible -> SoV -> MoE -> UoA" - no, no, no! Seriously, read David Graeber's Debt. Amazon link for the lazy: https://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1612191290

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