PrincessBulldog
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Or for that matter, what book changed or challenged your belief system so that it was never quite the same again?
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What new way did it make you think about it?
Now that I think about it, it was probably George Orwell who got me interested in politics to start with, so the credit goes to him.
.It was just a whole new perspective on issues that were given very little time in my high school classes. Particularly marxism and the theory behind communism. At high school it was all "communism is evil blah blah blah", but higher education (including this textbook) taught me to read deeper into issues.
I had already learned not to take commercial media at face value, I think I started to hate them in first year uni though.
Anarchism is the most misunderstood political and social concept of our times.
The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
Year 501 by Noam Chomsky
Just today in U.S. History class, I noticed a brief reference to Anarchism and the McKinely assassination. It basically just said that Anarchists were violent radicals. That's all it said, even though I believe Anarchism was quite a large movement during that time.
And CrimethInc does have some neat pamphlets.
I do agree with you Novella that political theory is a load of navel-gazing. Do you think that these thinkers aren't really influencing future behaviour and that instead, they're observing and describing what is already happening? In the UK, it is generally held that Tony Blair was influenced by Anthony Giddens. I don't know if that's true but if it was, it would suggest there is room for theorists to exert influence over political leaders.