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What would you recommend as a "social democrats first taste of socialism" book? (hexbear.net)

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A social democrat friend who knows basically nothing about socialism and was a berniecrat is looking for book recommendations, what is a good book to recommend to him?

I sort of dived in the deep end when I first started (perhaps unproductively ) and I they're the type of person who would probably benefit a lot from nice prose and nothing SUPER heavy, but I also know a lot of intro books are full of BS that needs to be deprogrammed later(especially stuff that includes left-anticommunism) so I'm being cautious.

What would you recommend?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Whatever you pick start with history instead of political theory. Gotta lay those foundations. First step in finding out where you are is finding out how you got there. Besides the natural radicalization that can result it can also inoculate them against the prevailing liberal narratives. Once you see the current of class struggle that runs through history it's hard to go back. No other narratives feel complete enough to compete.