nommo: the power of the word
human events recently asked a panel of conservative scholars
to choose the ten most harmful books of the 19th and 20th century,
i would have liked to have been a fly on that wall
i thought it was a rather perceptive list actually
the totalitarian works i agree with
though im not sure what their objections are
since they trying to impose their own brand of totalitarianism
maybe the overtness of the listed classics offend them
they prefer a more subtle approach
probably a matter of form, hard to do a listing of
harmful works without including hitler
and i guess the rightwing ascendancy
would object to folk like darwin, the only
person who made the list twice
freud, keynes and foucault surprised me
but ralph nader, what they got against their buddy
ralph, they ought to give him slide him some slack
for his efforts to elect george w. bush president
and declare him an honorary rightwinger
they ought to give him some sort of award i think
ohwell, moving on,
these are the top ten and the runners up
1. The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels
2. Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
3. Quotations from Chairman Mao
Mao Zedong
4. The Kinsey Report
Alfred Kinsey
5. Democracy and Education
John Dewey
6. Das Kapital
Karl Marx
7. The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan
8. The Course of Positive Philosophy
Auguste Comte
9. Beyond Good and Evil
Freidrich Nietzsche
10. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
John Maynard Keynes
These are the Honorable Mentions
The Population Bomb
Paul Ehrlich
What Is To Be Done
V.I. Lenin
Authoritarian Personality
Theodor Adorno
On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
B.F. Skinner
Reflections on Violence
Georges Sorel
The Promise of American Life
Herbert Croly
Origin of the Species
Charles Darwin
Madness and Civilization
Michel Foucault
Soviet Communism: A New Civilization
Sidney and Beatrice Webb
Coming of Age in Samoa
Margaret Mead
Unsafe at Any Speed
Ralph Nader
Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
Prison Notebooks
Antonio Gramsci
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
The Greening of America
Charles Reich
The Limits to Growth
Club of Rome
Descent of Man
Charles Darwin
Mojo Rising: Confessions of a 21st Century Conjureman
Arthur Flowers
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