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What would you recommend as a "social democrats first taste of socialism" book? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by TheSunSetsLikeAScar@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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A social democrat friend who knows basically nothing about socialism and was a berniecrat is looking for book recommendations, what is a good book to recommend to him?

I sort of dived in the deep end when I first started (perhaps unproductively ) and I they're the type of person who would probably benefit a lot from nice prose and nothing SUPER heavy, but I also know a lot of intro books are full of BS that needs to be deprogrammed later(especially stuff that includes left-anticommunism) so I'm being cautious.

What would you recommend?

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[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Blackshirts And Reds by Parenti is a good one.

[–] TheSunSetsLikeAScar@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

chapter 3 has a fair chunk of anti-communism in it, and while the book is a really good polemic I feel like it isn't a really good FAQ for new socialists

[–] sharkfucker420@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

This is the book that radicalized me