I was watching some video and there was mention of someone getting 1984. Upon which, a guy said that this one (one who got 1984) will end up being radicalized. I was already born into a very radical environment so no needs of books to radicalize me (although I am trying to be moderate and chill now)
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series.
Unironically “Industrial Society and Its Future” by Ted Kaczynski.
I don’t agree with it at all. I think disabled people are people too, radical stance I know. But some points, especially about modern left and new technology becoming mandatory are well argued and true.
I always thought he was just a random looney and he’s definitely not. I think the book didn’t radicalize me but showed me what I believed to be true (that the guy was just a looney or evil) was wrong.
I don’t believe that the rise of technofascism can be stopped by hiding in the woods tho and I don’t think rejecting all tech will make everyone’s mental health immediately better, he does not at all take things like community and purpose into account.
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe.
The methodical whitewashing by Zionists of the crimes against the native inhabitants of Palestine combined with the crocodiles tears of liberal Zionists was eye opening to say the least.
Gonna put something completely different out there: The Kingsbridge novels and Century Trilogy by Ken Follett. Kingsbridge is about a fictional town in England through the ages (books are 10th, 12, 14th, 16th and 18th century respectively), and the Century trilogy about several families from different parts of the world as they go through the 20th century.
Just a lot of daily life scenarios with a lot of rich vs poor themes. A lot of it goes too far to the social-democratic side and I don’t like how a lot of the characters tend to end up in a better place than where they started but I think it’s exactly those day-to-day issues that are what radicalise.
I see some good choices here. For Americans, try An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher.
Reform or revolution -Rosa Luxembourg (Not a book per se but worth the read)
Black shirts and reds -Micheal Parenti
The conquest of bread -Peter Kropotkin
Mutual aid -Peter Kropotkin
The Black Panther Party ten point program - Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale
Guerrilla Warfare -Ernesto “Che” Guevera
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
Have you heard about the communist party manifesto? really simple book, 30 pages, you can skip the third chapter, but a real banger I couldn’t recommend more
I mean 1984 did a pretty good job radicalizing me against fascism. I consider it radicalization because turns out America really likes fascism so I guess I’m in the minority.
But why then US fought Germany if US also likes fascism?
A People’s History of the United States blew my mind wide open in high school.
The Bible
For me, it was Quran who made me question the majority and gave me a questioning mind and now I am an atheist.
The book that reads at the very beginning something like “you must believe everything written in this book with blind fate” made you question things? Or maybe I picked up a tampered copy… 🤔 I read that, put it back on the shelve and never picked it up again.
For me, i was raised religious. Fully believed it all because I was a child and the idea that its all a con was way beyond my capabilities. Got a little older, family fell apart and religion stopped being shoved down my throat.
Decided to read the bible so I could understand the whole story instead of just being lectured about a couple of paragraphs plucked at random.
God creates everything and then straight up fireballs everyone to death in the first like 5 minutes of reading. Ive been taught since birth that God loves us. Been drilled into my head that God has a perfect plan. Chapter fucking one God says whoops and does a genocide.
I did not finish the book.
yeah cuz I wanted to be a better Muslim and I dove deeper and deeper and that made me question my sect, then my religion, then all religions.
I loved this book!
Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
Why are we calling being an empathetic individual and being against fascism “being radicalised”?
My question exactly
well it is just you. Radicalized can entail many things. When I was in early to mid teens, I have read and listened to extremists and that made me a hardcore extremist in my religion.
