Jonathan Haidt
The Righteous Mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion
Jonathan Haidt
Haidt deconstructs Conservative and Liberal (in the US sense) positions into projections of six “moral foundations”
Anders Aslund
Russia’s Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed
Anders Aslund
A study of the Russian paradox of the success of capitalism and the failure of democracy.
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Satirical attack on a future utopian state.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Hugely important for some social libertarians and most social authoritarians significantly on the left. National leaders in the latter camp have generally attempted to make the state stronger, rather than work towards the Marxian principle that it should gradually wither away.
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Adam Smith
18th Century economist and philosopher Adam Smith wrote this first-ever masterpiece in political economy. A champion of the free market, Smith was nevertheless not as entirely laissez-faire as his fans on both the libertarian and authoritarian right often claim. They tend to ignore the “moral” side of his teachings, which are reflected in his distrust of the motivations of businessmen.
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Giovanni Arrighi
Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century
Giovanni Arrighi
A reexamination of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations with China and East Asia taking the reigns of capitalism from the west.
Wilhelm Reich
The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Wilhelm Reich
Repudiates the idea that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality
Hans J. Eysenck
He constructed a tough-tender axis to the political personality
The Psychology of Politics
Hans J. Eysenck
Dimensions of Personality
Hans J. Eysenck
Theodor Adorno
… of the celebrated Frankfurt School blazed new trails in the investigation of prejudice