(Part 2) Best products from r/chomsky

edit: THIS is what I meant to link but the other links are still helpful: “Dan interviews Alex Gourevitch about how 19th century US labor radicals remade the idea of freedom into a principle of working-class social transformation.”

https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/worker-freedom-with-alex-gourevitch/

From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century, by Alex Gourevitch

https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Cooperative-Commonwealth-Republican-Nineteenth/dp/1107663652

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The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump, by Corey Robin.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0190692006/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_0190692006

I think it’s referenced in Private Government, by Elizabeth Anderson.

https://www.amazon.com/Private-Government-Employers-Lives-about/dp/0691192243/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=private+government&qid=1572968997&sprefix=private+govern&sr=8-3

Chomsky also once said that he wished more scientists would read Russell's The analysis of matter. Side note: I also really enjoyed his ABCs of relativity, mainly for his excellent written style.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Analysis-Matter-Bertrand-Russell/dp/0851247407/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=analysis+of+matter&qid=1562149567&s=gateway&sr=8-1

I highly recommend this introductory book for Chomskyian linguistics. It's bibliography is great if you want to dig deeper.

I didn't know if you were still doing this, but here's a couple more...

Workers' Councils -- Anton Pannekoek

"Good, Solid, working-class literature." - Noam Chomsky
He's also interviewed in this new edition. source

Whose Crisis? Whose Future? - Susan George

"A really valuable and impressive book. Susan George leads us through a chamber of horrors ... Fortunately, the lucid and carefully documented picture she presents also shows that there are paths out of the darkness, realistic and within reach if the will is there. Lessons to be taken to heart by those who have concern for humans and their fate."
Noam Chomsky

source: Amazon.com

You can also add:

The Industrial Worker, 1840-1860: The Reaction of American Industrial Society to the Advance of the Industrial Revolution -- Norman Ware

Link

"Actually one of the most interesting books I know, and if you haven't read I'd urge you to, is the first modern book on labor history I know of. ... It's mostly quotes from the labor press, which are just fascinating. ... It's very interesting, it's very eloquent, very well-written." -- Noam Chomsky


The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities -- Simha Flapan

Link * The book is out of print i believe, but you can still get it used from amazon

"Simha Flapan's study of the events surrounding the establishment of the state of Israel offers new insight and understanding that requires a serious rethinking of much that has long been believed" -- Noam Chomsky

Sorry, I just don't understand how anybody who knows about the history of the Democratic Party specifically could rationally think there is anyway it will ever change. This book by Thomas Frank is a really good analysis. Although ultimately he seems to think reforming the party is possible, but he is not a radical so I guess that explains his irrational faith.

I can't say the following writers are similar to Chomsky but they are a part of the popular dissident movement as I know it. The narrative they write from is what they all have in common. Think colonialism and Euro-centrism (and calling it out.)

The Colonizer's Model of the World by J.M. Blaut changed how I viewed America and Europe's relationship with the "third world" and illustrated the doublethink required to be a consumer.

From Colonizer's you can learn about people like Samir Amin is a vocal opponent of Capitalism and globalism. Here are enough of his books to keep you busy for awhile.

Also from Colonizer's is Amilcar Cabral, an African nationalist that fomented (is that the right word?) an open revolution to get Belgium Portuguese out of Guinea Bissau using only local resources. It took years. He won. He was assassinated shortly after being elected. A necessary evil you could say because we need cheap rubber for our cars. Another example of true democracy being cut short practically the moment it existed by guess who? If you go to a library you can get reviews of his book on JSTOR which can be helpful. He wrote Unity and Struggle and there are PDFs of that work floating around. He showed you can beat imperialism with a coordinated effort, like everyone has to take part and the middle class must commit suicide as a class in order for all to succeed.

If J.M. Blaut, Samir Amin and Amilcar Cabral aren't enough to keep you busy look up Naomi Klein and again, her books and films are available to both purchase and steal on most popula torrent sites.

Also I can't recommend http://historyisaweapon.com/ enough. I'm just finishing the entire site for the first time. There are many typos on the site so the second time I read through it I'm going to compile a list of grammatical and punctuation errors. OCR is like that. "I'm doing my part" (Starship Troopers and irony)

EDIT: Wrong colonizing country. Not Belgium, Portugal.

Well, if you read Wikileaks' latest book you'll see they have the documents that prove they did pay for the last one they did (2014), and it is all the same characters from last time, the same people who are constantly ferried between Caracas and Arlington Virginia to meet CIA officials and who give speeches in DC about how they're going to succeed in overthrowing the chavistas the next time. You can read a summary of the wikileaks for Venezuela here.

The book referenced at 4:20 is Elements of Moral Cognition: Rawls' Linguistic Analogy and the Cognitive Science of Moral and Legal Judgment by John Mikhail. Seems very interesting.

If you liked "Hegemony or Survival" you should pick up "The New Rulers of the World" by John Pilger.

In case you're interested (and you haven't already read this) you should read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Affirmative-Action-United-States-India/dp/0415700027

>Worked with:Robert Faurisson and Alison Weir

Defending the right of someone to free speech is not the same as condoning their opinion.

>Demonizes Israel

You mean "criticizes" Israel

>doesn't discuss the conflict in an even-handed manner.


One, you have not given an example on how he "doesn't discuss the conflict in an even-handed manner". Second, in a conflict that was started based on the Systematic Ethnic Cleansing of one side is very hard to be "even-handed":https://www.amazon.ca/Ethnic-Cleansing-Palestine-Ilan-Pappe/dp/1851685553/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457747715&sr=8-1&keywords=ethnic+cleansing+of+palestine




>"Denies anti-Semitism is a major issue in the world today."

1)Citation needed

2)"Major Issue" compared to...?

3) Assuming the presumption of question is correct, What are the main causes of it?

Are you serious? I was of the idea that he is a lefty that was trying to work out the details of communism. The person who informed me about him was from the r/Anarchism101 subreddit. Can you link a source where he was transphobic? He mentioned in one of his videos that he is writing a book titled How the World Works which is the same title as this Chomsky book idk if they are even tangentially related, but I had a preconceived image of him that sounds like it’s not true based of your response.

Norman Finkelstein himself usually recommends these three books pertaining to the Israeli-Palestinian-Arab conflict:

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Benny Morris, Righteous Victims

Zeev Maoz, Defending the Holy Land

Robert Fisk, Pity the Nation

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As an aside, I'd also highly recommend Finkelstein's own Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict.


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Wondering if anyone has comments on The Palestine-Israeli Conflict: A Beginner's Guide which attempts to cover both sides of the topic using two different authors.
It's on my shelf to read, but curious if anyone else has already assessed it.

https://www.amazon.com/Palestine-Israeli-Conflict-Beginners-Guide-Guides/product-reviews/1851686118/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_btm?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews&sortBy=recent

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