I wanted to Share this from READTHEBOOKLIST.COM with all of you.
Capitalism
and Socialism. The two most influential ideas in history. What are
they? Where did they come from? Who discovered and wrote them concisely?
All of these questions are now answered at READTHEBOOKLIST.com.
Finally, a bookseller dedicated to the most important set of authors in
history. In the case of these two ideas, there are the authors listed on
our PRIMARY LIST and none else. The other authors you may have heard
of, read through, or want to read, learned their ideas from these
PRIMARY LIST authors. Whether the other authors will admit it or not,
they did. Every fundamental, influential and foundational idea ever
written about Capitalism and Socialism was discovered by the authors we
present on our Primary List.
The ideas of liberty, freedom,
capitalism, and individualism are simple once you fully understand. I
have read thousands of books to fully understand the whole of those
ideas and this is the cliff-notes version of the whole and in read
order. I am a Randian and a Von Misian, a Rothbardian, Jeffersonian etc.
I am all of them and we recommend that you read all of everyone but at
the very least both sides of the list. If you miss pieces of the whole
because he said she said this or that was crap you will never fully
understand.
If you read the book ranks section: http://www.readthebooklist.com/book-ranks
you will see why we ranked them the way we did. As it says, we invite
you to rank them too. It is not scientific, it is meant to be fun and
cool. We are making an easy landing place for you and your friends to
come in and do your research and learn about liberty, freedom,
capitalism, and individualism. We have lumped socialism, statism,
progressivism, communism, fascism, and collectivism together calling it
socialism. Then we lumped liberty, freedom, capitalism, and
individualism together under capitalism. We did this to make it simple
and because their have only been 2 political ideas in history, freedom
and slavery or life vs death.
This list is meant for very busy
people who want to know the gist of everything and it does that. We have
been working on this for over 30 years. Everyone including Ron Paul and
Walter Block are totally stoked on this list and have recommended the
same books. If you read the entire booklist you will understand why we
ranked the way we did.
The freedom movement has been fragmented
for many years. In regard the ARI and Yaron Brook he and the
objectivists refuse to read all of Rothbard for the same reason
Rothbardians refuse to read Rand. I have worked on those guys for years
just to get them reading von Mises.
The problem is everyone is
siloed. Stuck in their one discipline, or their one book or one author
and refuse to seriously study others because someone they respect
disagrees with them! That is why I started this site to bring the
fragmented freedom movement back together. The only thing that separates
us is misunderstanding.
The objectivists are the authorities on
philosophy they got it down. The austrians have economics down! But both
make mistakes. The austrians with philosophy that leads to false
conclusions. The objectivists with economic detail and the history of
economics like Rothbard's books lays out in regard to the FED and the
many national bank caused recessions/depressions (Panics)! Both talk a
slightly different language so they fight over semantics. They don't
understand each other, and don’t want to.
If you look at what Ayn
Rand said and forget what is coming out of the ARI you will see that her
foreign policy is almost identical to someone like Ron Paul. And Ron
Paul has made some mistakes in regard to her and her philosophy because
he has not read and understood Rand fully.
If you read the list
you will get all of this. Like you have heard before it is about the
ideas not the people. Full understanding is the future of the freedom
movement. It starts with RTBL. So start reading and live!
Have fun,
Ty
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