There are countless Socialism courses, tutorials, articles available online, but for some, having a book is still a necessity to learn. This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
- Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies (2019)
- Why Socialism Works (2017)
- Socialism: Past and Future (2011)
- Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: Third Edition (Harper Perennial Modern Thought) (2008)
- Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (1981)
- Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (2015)
- Socialism: A Very Short Introduction (2005)
- Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism (2019)
- Socialism Is Evil: The Moral Case Against Marx’s Radical Dream (2018)
- Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis [New Edition, Enlarged with an Epilogue] (2012)
- The Nazi Revolution: Hitler’s Dictatorship and the German Nation (Problems in European Civilization) (1997)
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism (The Politically Incorrect Guides) (2011)
Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies (2019)
Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience.Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China to Venezuela.
Why Socialism Works (2017)
This is a comprehensive book on how and why socialism will work, despite your friends saying it has and always will be a failure.Please note this book only contains two words and is entirely satire. #62,863 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #36 in Political Ideologies #325 in Political Conservatism & Liberalism #114 in Communism & Socialism (Books) Would you like to ?If you are a seller for this product, would you like to ?
Socialism: Past and Future (2011)
On learning his cancer was inoperable, renowned intellectual Michael Harrington simply asked the doctors to keep him alive long enough “to complete a summary statement of the themes I had thought of throughout an activist life.” And they did.
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: Third Edition (Harper Perennial Modern Thought) (2008)
In this definitive third and final edition (1950) of his masterwork, Joseph A. Schumpeter introduced the world to the concept of “creative destruction,” which forever altered how global economics is approached and perceived. Now featuring a new introduction by Schumpeter biographer Thomas K.
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (1981)
This book must rank as the most devastating analysis of socialism yet penned. . . . An economic classic in our time.—Henry HazlittMore than thirty years ago F. A. Hayek said of “It was a work on political economy in the tradition of the great moral philosophers, a Montesquieu or Adam Smith, containing both acute knowledge and profound wisdom. . . .
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (2015)
Socialism, Utopian and Scientific is a political science classic that needs no preface. It ranks with the Communist Manifesto as one of the indispensable books for any one desiring to understand the modern socialist movement. It has been translated into every language where capitalism prevails, and its circulation is more rapid than ever before. The book explains the differences between utopian socialism and scientific socialism, which Marxism considers itself to embody.
Socialism: A Very Short Introduction (2005)
Today, most people think of socialism as an outdated ideology. In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Newman seeks to place the idea of socialism in a modern context for today’s readers.
Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism (2019)
Socialism was man’s most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in “science.” Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to “the New Man” inspired more searching for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy, communism, fascism, Arab socialism, African socialism. None worked, and some exacted a staggering human toll.
Socialism Is Evil: The Moral Case Against Marx’s Radical Dream (2018)
The greatest threat facing the United States today doesn’t come from China, Iran, or even Russia; it’s the growing number of Americans who believe Karl Marx’s socialism provides the best strategy for making our communities safer, healthier, and more prosperous.
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis [New Edition, Enlarged with an Epilogue] (2012)
2012 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This masterwork is much more than a refutation of the economics of socialism (although on that front, nothing else compares).
The Nazi Revolution: Hitler’s Dictatorship and the German Nation (Problems in European Civilization) (1997)
This successful anthology explores the Nazi movement in the context of German history and society. #1,475,005 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #5025 in Anthropology (Books) #5709 in German History (Books) #4274 in General Anthropology Would you like to ?If you are a seller for this product, would you like to ?
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism (The Politically Incorrect Guides) (2011)
Stalin’s gulag, impoverished North Korea, collapsing Cubait’s hard to name a dogma that has failed as spectacularly as socialism. And yet leaders around the world continue to subject millions of people to this dysfunctional, violence-prone ideology. In The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to Socialism, Kevin Williamson reveals the fatal flaw of socialism—that efficient, complex economies simply can’t be centrally planned.
Best Socialism Books: The Ultimate Collection
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Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World
Author(s): Robert Lawson, Benjamin Powell
ID: 2393829, Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Year: 30 July 2019, Size: 7 Mb, Format: epub
Eduard Bernstein on Socialism Past and Present: Essays and Lectures on Ideology
Author(s): Marius S. Ostrowski
ID: 2873784, Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2021, Size: 2 Mb, Format: epub
Socialism—The Tragedy Of An Idea: Possible? Inevitable? Desirable?
Author(s): Lajos Bokros
ID: 2900259, Publisher: Springer, Year: 2021, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are truly hot items according to Chicago Tribune, others are drafted by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.