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[Alethias]

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[MarcelLionheart]

Clearly, you should read The Economist weekly. The ads that say things like "I used to think, but now I just read The Economist" scare me sometimes, but it's a good magazine even though I don't always agree with its opinions.

[Chris Porter]

On-Line Glossaries of Political Terms
Dr. Paul M. Johnson (http://www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss/)
Webref.org (http://www.webref.org/political-science/political-science.htm)

On-Line Glossaries of Economic Terms
biz/ed.uk (http://www.bized.co.uk/glossary/glossary.htm)
About.com (http://economics.about.com/cs/econometrics/l/blglossary.htm)
Economy Watch (http://www.economywatch.com/indianeconomy/glossary-of-economic-terms.html)
CNNmoney.com (http://money.cnn.com/services/glossary/a.html)
MorganStanley.com (http://www.morganstanleyindividual.com/customerservice/dictionary/)

On-Line Glossaries of Social Theory Terms
Elwell's Glossary of Sociology (http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/frank.elwell/prob3/glossary/socgloss.htm)

[Alethias]

The Library of Economics And Liberty (http://www.econlib.org/library/classics.html)

Has both Economics and Political Books referenced.

[The Other Michael]

It seems like you might be able to find online copies of The Communist Manifesto, Mein Kampf, USA and other constitutions/declarations of independence, perhaps the Federalist Papers, the Magna Carta etc to link to. There must be some screed from Ayn Rand on her stuff around too.

Basically, source documents to go along with the scholarly ponderings upon them.

cheers,
Michael

[Nice Squirrel]

Niccolò Machiavelli:

Discourses (http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/m/machiavelli/niccolo/m149d/)

The Prince (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1232)

[ravenscape]

Magna Carta (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/magnacarta.html)

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA)
Quotations of Mao Tse-Tung (http://art-bin.com/art/omaotoc.html) aka The Little Red Book at art-bin.com

[Alethias]

Wikipedia Article on objectivism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_%28Ayn_Rand%29)
Official Intro from the Ayn Rand Institute. (http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_intro)

The Best book on objectivism is OPAR:
Objectivism, the Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff
(http://leonardpeikoff.com/)It is the best one in that it gathers all her ideas into one place, and provides references to the original source. Leonard Peikoff is loyal to the point of fanaticism.

The Constitution of the United States of America (http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_transcript.html).
The Bill of rights (http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html).
The Declaration of Independence (http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/declaration_transcript.html).
The Federalist Papers (http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fedpapers.html).
Mein Kampf (http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/).
The Communist Manifesto (http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html).
Common Sense (http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/index.htm), by Thomas Paine.
The Patriot Act of 2001 (http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html).
The works of John Locke (http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?amode=start&author=Locke,%20John).

[Pan Narrans]

Some classics:
Plato: The Republic (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1497)
Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3207)
Adam Smith: The Wealth Of Nations (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3300)
Jean Jaques Rousseau: The Social Contract (http://www.constitution.org/jjr/socon.htm)

[duretti]

Libertarian Socialist / Anarchist Theory

AnarchistFAQ.org (http://www.infoshop.org/faq/index.html) - Online FAQ about anarchism
Rudloph Rocker: Anarchosyndicalism (http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/rocker/sp001495/rocker_as1.html) Overview of Anarchosyndicalism and its historical development

Chomsky

http://www.chomsky.info/
Manufacturing Consent (http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Herman%20/Manufacturing_Consent.html) First&Last chapter only - propaganda model of the media
Necessary Illusions (http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/ni/ni-contents.html) Followup to Manufacturing Consent
What Uncle Sam Really Wants (http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/sam/sam-contents.html) Short & concise overview of US foreign policy since WWII
Year 501 (http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/year/year-overview.html)Longer overview of US foreign policy and its historical context. Goes further back.

Marxism

Marxists Internet Archive (http://www.marxists.org/)All the Marxism you can eat. The original works by Marx, Lenin, Trotsky etc.

[IsItJustMe]

Another good Marxism site is:

marx2mao.com

It covers different ground than Marxists.org, including a lot of Mao's stuff.

[B.S. Lewis]

Info&Resources:
PollingReport.com (http://www.pollingreport.com/)
Gallup World Poll (http://www.gallupworldpoll.com/analyses/)
Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/) (try it using a few searches you would have done in Google)
Write your Representative (http://www.house.gov/writerep/)
Find your two Senators (http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=state&Sort=ASC)

Politics:
Freedom House (http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=1)
Amnesty International (http://www.amnesty.org/)
Sojourners: Christians for Justice & Peace (http://www.sojo.net/)
The Progressive (http://www.progressive.org/)
Center for American Progress (http://www.americanprogress.org/) (sidebar on the left leads to huge archives of articles on various issues)
Nolan Chart

Economics:
Dollars & Sense: The Magazine of Economic Justice (http://www.dollarsandsense.org/)
The Center for Popular Economics (http://www.populareconomics.org/) (I can't vouch for this quite yet, seems interesting and credible)
Venezuala's Cooperative Revolution (http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2006/0706bowmanstone.html)
Sunkist.com/about (http://www.sunkist.com/about/)
Distributism
Cooperative
Capitalism

History:
HistoricalDocuments.com (http://historicaldocuments.com/)
Famous U.S. speeches (http://www.sojust.net/speeches.html)
Dwight Eisenhower's parting presidential speech (Military-Industrial Complex) (http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html)
Slavery Timeline (http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/slavery/a/timeline_slave.htm)
African American History
A People's History of the United States (http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html) by Howard Zinn - (Might be in violation of copyright law)

Philosophy:
John Rawls' Theory of Justice:
--Brief summary (http://webs.wofford.edu/kaycd/ethics/justice.htm)
--A slightly better introduction (http://www.wku.edu/~jan.garrett/ethics/johnrawl.htm)
Cosmopolitanism:
--SEP entry (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmopolitanism/)
--Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmopolitanism)
--An excellent essay (http://www.soci.niu.edu/~phildept/Kapitan/nussbaum1.html)

[emphryio]

For a history of US imperialism both through CIA proxy wars/covert ops and IMF/World Bank SAPs, nothing else comes close to http://thirdworldtraveler.com/

[RED DAVE]

Deserves it's own post. Absolutely indespensable.

A People's History of the United States

http://historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html
An unbelievably good source for documents, historical essays, from a radical point of view.

History Is a Weapon

http://www.historyisaweapon.org/indextrue.html

RED DAVE

[countjulian]

Concieved in Liberty

Murray Rothbard's Powerful Four-part Book on the Origins of America's libertarian Revolution, and the liberal ideals and circumstances that propelled it:

* Volume One covers the discovery of the Americas and the colonies in the 17th century (531 pages, including index).
o Full text of Volume One in pdf format (http://www.mises.org/books/conceived1.pdf)

* Volume Two covers the period of "salutary neglect" in the first half of the 18th century (294 pages, including index).
o Full text of Volume Two in pdf format
(http://www.mises.org/books/conceived2.pdf)
* Volume Three covers the advance to revolution, from 1760-1775 (373 pages, including index).
o Full text of Volume Three in pdf format
(http://www.mises.org/books/conceived3.pdf)
* Volume Four covers the political, military, and ideological history of the revolution and after (470 pages, including index).
o Full text of Volume Four in pdf format (http://www.mises.org/books/conceived4.pdf)


A Collection of Rothbard's Writings (http://www.mises.org/content/mnr.asp)

Also the Mises Institute (http://www.mises.org/) has a number of other scholarly texts on economics and history, highly recomended.

As for von Mises himself, a number of his books are avaliable online.

* The Free Market and Its Enemies: Pseudo-Science, Socialism, and Inflation Lecture Series (http://www.fee.org/library/books/thefree.asp), Volume 1, with an introduction by Richard Ebeling. Copyright 2004 Foundation for Economic Education. All rights reserved.
* Nine Other Books (http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/Author.php?recordID=0184) by Mises, made available online by the Liberty Fund, publishers of the Complete Works of Ludwig von Mises
* Human Action: A treatise on economics (Human Action: A treatise on economics)1949 (4th edition, 1996). San Francisco: Fox & Wilkes. ISBN 0-930073-18-5. Made available online by The Ludwig von Mises Institute.
* Human Action: The Scholars Edition (Human Action: The Scholars Edition)Auburn, Alabama: Mises Institute, 1999. Re-issue of the classic 1949 Edition with new introduction and expanded index.
* A Critique of Interventionism (http://www.mises.org/etexts/mises/critique/contents.asp), The Ludwig von Mises Institute.
* The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality (http://www.mises.org/etexts/mises/anticap.asp), Libertarian Press 1990.
* Economic Freedom and Interventionism (http://www.mises.org/efandi.asp), The Ludwig von Mises Institute.
* Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow Second Edition (http://www.mises.org/etexts/ecopol.asp), with a New Introduction by Bettina Bien Greaves, The Ludwig von Mises Institute.
* The Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics (http://www.mises.org/hsofase.asp), The Ludwig von Mises Institute.
* Liberalism: In the Classical Tradition (http://www.mises.org/liberal.asp), English edition Copyright 1985 The Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington, NY. Translation by Ralph Raico. Online edition Copyright The Mises Institute, 2000. *The Theory of Money and Credit. (http://www.mises.org/books/Theory_Money_Credit/Contents.aspx)1912 integration of microeconomics and macroeconomics. ISBN 0-913966-71-1. Online edition Copyright The Mises Institute.
* Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (http://www.mises.org/books/socialism/contents.aspx) Von Mises' critique of Socialism
* Theory and History. (http://www.mises.org/th.asp) 1957 treatise on social and economic evolution, with a preface by Murray N. Rothbard. Online edition Copyright The Mises Institute, 2000.

[countjulian]

Von Hayek's influential treatise on the links between socialism, fascism, and central planning, the Road to Serfdom.
A somewhat abridged readers digest version (http://www.iea.org.uk/files/upld-publication43pdf?.pdf) is avaliable from the American Enterprise Institute.

John T. Flynn's book onthe connections between fascism, Roosevelt's New Deal, and modern leftism and statism, As We Go Marching (http://www.mises.org/books/aswegomarching.pdf).

John Ray, an acedemic from Australia with a wide range of interests, has alos written extensively on fascism.

Italian Fascism and Modern Leftism
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/06/...icle.html#1120

Hitler and Socialism
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/08/...-internet.html

Class Make-Up of Fascism
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/08/...n-fascism.html

Roots of fascism in American "Progressive" Movement
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/05/...-american.html

Fascist nature of Sweden Under the Social Democrats
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/08/...ow-motion.html

More of his writings are avaliable here
http://tongue-tied2.blogspot.com/

[Norseman]

The Myth of the Rule of Law (http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythFinalDraft.pdf)

[Bonniedundee]

Here's a few excellent Mutualist/left-libertarian/General and market anarchist sources.

Kevin Carson, a modern Mutualist.

http://www.mutualist.org/id47.html
http://mutualist.blogspot.com/

Roderick Long's Market anarchist page.

http://praxeology.net/anarcres.htm

General anti-authoritarian.

http://www.panarchy.org/
http://www.Mises.org
http://www.blackcrayon.com/
http://filer.case.edu/~ngb2/Pages/Intro.html

[Bonniedundee]

Italian Fascism and Modern Leftism
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/06/...icle.html#1120

Hitler and Socialism
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/08/...-internet.html

Class Make-Up of Fascism
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/08/...n-fascism.html

Roots of fascism in American "Progressive" Movement
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/05/...-american.html

Fascist nature of Sweden Under the Social Democrats
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/08/...ow-motion.htmlYour links are dead, although looking at the titles that has probably improved them somewhat.

[Norseman]

The Rise of Corporations (http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Corporations/Rise.asp)
ETA:
How Corporations Operate Tax Free (http://www.alternet.org/story/9464/)

[B.S. Lewis]

AnarchistFAQ.org (http://www.infoshop.org/faq/index.html)

Seconded! I'm working my way through the AFAQ right now. Anarchism (aka Libertarian Socialism) is as far left as you can possibly go; for that reason, it should be essential reading for all IIDB posters. It brings a whole new clarity to the debate about all the middle positions when you've first familiarized yourself with the two poles.

[B.S. Lewis]

One more post and I'll quit hogging this thread. A while back I started a thread called "best liberal rags?", wherein I asked posters to submit their favorite online sources for news from a left perspective and/or left editorials. There were a ton of responses, and I have found them helpful, so here is that thread (http://iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=208405&highlight=best+liberal+rags). I personally would pick CommonDreams.org as by far the standout among the sites listed in that thread.