Mencius Moldbug book recommendation from the hang, courtesy of @marla
Moldbug’s Recommendations
Movie: Reds (1981 starring Warren Beatty)
Memoirs of the Dissent Publisher by William Regnery
The Red Decade by Eugene Lyons
Assignment in Utopia by Eugene Lyons
The Russia I Believe In by Samuel N. Harper
The True History of the American Revolution by Sydney George Fisher
Falsehood in War-Time by Arthur Ponsonby
Alexander Hamilton: An Essay on American Union by Fredrick Scott Oliver
Books on Progressivism (Recommends memoirs of people who left the movement)
Authoritarian Socialism in America by Arthur Lipow
Enjoyment Of Living by Max Eastham
School of Darkness by Bella Dodd
Dreams Die Hard by David Harris
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