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What is the book that changed your views? (lemmy.world)

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Please share books that affected your worldview or changed your thoughts.

For me, it’s A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman. I studied business and work in finance, and before reading it, I never questioned the idea that capitalism was just the natural way of things. This book made me realize that capitalism is man made. It had a beginning and it can have an end. Wealth and poverty are not just inevitable, they are created by human decisions. That perspective really shook me.

Do you have a book that had a similar impact on you?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse was a pretty radicalizing read for me. It's ostensibly about the injustice suffered by Leonard Peltier after two FBI agents were killed on Oglala land in 1975. But what it really tells the story of is the complete pillaging of a land where people already existed and how treaties have never been worth the paper they were inked on to the US government.