The Jefferson Papers

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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