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ILLUSIONS, HALF-TRUTHS AND MASKS

A meditation about the new rise of communism in America

By Xuan Quen Santos

 

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READING GUIDE

 

The main sources consulted are referenced in the text. To keep the character of this publication as accessible as possible, citations and notes were omitted. This reading guide is an invitation to develop a broader background with non-technical classics. A more complete list can be found in

https://www.independent.org/article/2020/02/18/best-books-on-the-folly-of-socialism/

                LITERATURE CLASSIC

1.    Golding, James. Lord of the Flies (1954)

2.    Orwell, George. Animal Farm (1943), 1984 (1948)

3.    Conquest, Robert. The Harvest of Sorrow (1986), The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge (1986)

4.    Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

5.    Kafka, Franz. The Trial (1926), The Castle (1926)

6.    Rand, Ayn, Atlas Shrugged (1957)

7.    Read, Leonard. I, Pencil (1958)

8.    Frederic Bastiat. The Broken Window (1850), in his essay That Which Is Seen and Not seen

9.   Jefferson, T. Declaration of Independence (1776)

10.    The United States Congress. The Bill of Rights (1789)

11.   Paine, Thomas. Common Sense (1776)

                NON FICTION ON LAW, ECONOMICS, POLITICS

       1.    Hazlitt, Henry. Economics in One Lesson(1952)

2.    Friedman, Milton. Money Mischief (1992), Capitalism and Freedom (1962)

3.    Friedman, M. and R. Free to Choose (1980)

4.    Hayek, F. A. The Road to Serfdom (1944), The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (1988), The Constitution of Liberty (1960)

5.    Gilder, George. Wealth and Poverty (1981)

6.    Levin, Mark. American Marxism (2021)

7.    Grudem, W. & Asmus, B. The Poverty of Nations ( 2013)

8.    Sowell, Thomas. Social Justice Fallacies (2023), Intellectuals and Society (2011)

9.    Popper, Karl R. The Open Society and its Enemies (1962)

10.  Gwartney, Stroup, et al. Common Sense Economics (2005)

 11.   Max Eastman. Reflections on the Failure of  Socialism (1955)

 

                ONLINE SOURCES AND STORES

         1.    FEE, Foundation for Economic Education

2.    The Mises Institute

3.    The Liberty Fund

4.    The Acton Institute

5.    The Adam Smith Institute

6.    CEI, Competitive Enterprise Institute

7.    The Heritage Foundation

8.    The Cato Institute

9.    The Atlas Network

10. The Manhattan Institute

11. Hillsdale College

12. Universidad Francisco Marroquin UFM

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