Reading

Language

• Politics and the English Language, by George Orwell

• Block that Metaphor, by Steven Pinker

• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicamerical Mind - Chapter II: Consciousness, by Julian Jaynes

• Mythologies - Myth Today, by Roland Barthes

• New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind, by Noam Chomsky

• Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language, by Robin Dunbar

• Marxism and the Philosophy of Language, by V.N. Volosinov

• Philosophical Investigations, by Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Lacan: A Beginner’s Guide, by Lionel Bailly

Economy

• Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty

• Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System that Rules the World, by Branko Milanovic

• Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, by Yanis Varoufakis

• The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter Scheidel

• Reading Capital Volume 1, by David Harvey

• Debunking Economics, by Steve Keen

• Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism, by Brooke Harrington

• The Natural History of the Rich, by Richard Conniff

Liberalism

• Why We Can’t All Just Get Along, by Stanley Fish

• The Great Anarchists, by Paul Eltzbacher

• State and Revolution, by Vladimir Lenin

• The Portable Enlightenment Reader, by Isaac Kramnick

Fascism

• The Anatomy of Fascism, by Robert Paxton

• The Stars Down to Earth, by Theodore Adorno

• Escape from Freedom, by Erich Fromm

Propaganda and Ideology

• Manufacturing Consent, by Noam Chomsky and Edward Hermann

• Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes, by Jacques Ellul

• The Rape of the Mind, by E.M. Meerloo

• On the Reproduction of Capitalism : Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, by Louis Althusser