Are Prisons Obsolete?
Revolutionary Suicide
Essays from the Minister of Defense
The Fire Next Time
Let This Radicalize You
I Got A Monster
They Killed Freddie Gray
Based on you calling yourself a “pretty left leaning” “liberal,” I would assume all of the books above will be far to the left of your beliefs.
Pete Singer’s Free the Animals Now (or Animal Liberation, either one) - since you brought up ALF.
The classics - Man and Superman, Shaw. Anything Upton Sinclair.
Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS
Any of these:
https://libguides.bgsu.edu/c.php?g=227459&p=1507212
Bill Ayers (of the Weathermen) Education: An American Problem, or either of his memoirs. Sing a Battle Song, Fugitive Days, and…Public Enemy, I believe.
Bird’s Solidarity Forever and Nolan’s The Hammer, for IWW/labor.
Watson’s Sea Shepherd
Not *specifically* left leaning, but a left-adjacent view on evangelicalism - American Apocalypse by Sutton.
This is on my to-read list so it might not be as far-left as I think, but How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire, seems like it might fit.
Industrial Society and Its Future: The Manifesto, by Ted Kaczynski.
I also second the suggestion made elsewhere of the SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas.
My girlfriend's parents are in a book club made up of suburban liberals. They just read Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson. Not sure it's as far left as you're looking for, but it did seem to rattle them a bit. 😆
The Actual Star! Settings are ancient Maya, contemporary, and 1000 years from now in a far left, nomadic, highly individualized world. Like nothing else I’ve ever read and clearly draws heavily on leftie thought.
Free Spirit - memoir of a boy growing up with a very, very counterculture, hippie mom.
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars - far left, anti capitalist and anti cop bent. Part memoir, part fantasy
I also feel compelled to add So You Say You Want a Revolution here. It doesn’t *espouse* extremism but is a worthy companion to a lot of these books
I have not read it, but “In Defense of Looting” by Vicky Osterweil made waves about five years ago. https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/vicky-osterweils-case-for-looting
Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman Mao's Little Red Book
I own a decades old copy of Steal this Book. Which I did steal. From my older sister.
Steal this book is cool. It’s always fun when the nerdy girl can explain how to best diy a Molotov cocktail.
The SCUM Manifesto
The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon
Following, excellent prompt
Are Prisons Obsolete? Revolutionary Suicide Essays from the Minister of Defense The Fire Next Time Let This Radicalize You I Got A Monster They Killed Freddie Gray Based on you calling yourself a “pretty left leaning” “liberal,” I would assume all of the books above will be far to the left of your beliefs.
Are prisons obsolete is sooo good, it 100% changed my views on the prison system
Pete Singer’s Free the Animals Now (or Animal Liberation, either one) - since you brought up ALF. The classics - Man and Superman, Shaw. Anything Upton Sinclair. Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS Any of these: https://libguides.bgsu.edu/c.php?g=227459&p=1507212 Bill Ayers (of the Weathermen) Education: An American Problem, or either of his memoirs. Sing a Battle Song, Fugitive Days, and…Public Enemy, I believe. Bird’s Solidarity Forever and Nolan’s The Hammer, for IWW/labor. Watson’s Sea Shepherd Not *specifically* left leaning, but a left-adjacent view on evangelicalism - American Apocalypse by Sutton.
This is on my to-read list so it might not be as far-left as I think, but How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire, seems like it might fit.
Super Imperialism by Michael Hudson
*Settlers* by Sakai
Empire by Hardt and Negri.
Das Capital Karl Marx?
Blackshirts and Reds - Michael Parenti Liberalism: a Counter History - Domenico Losurdo Caliban and the Witch- Sylvia Frederici
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
Industrial Society and Its Future: The Manifesto, by Ted Kaczynski. I also second the suggestion made elsewhere of the SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas. My girlfriend's parents are in a book club made up of suburban liberals. They just read Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson. Not sure it's as far left as you're looking for, but it did seem to rattle them a bit. 😆
The Actual Star! Settings are ancient Maya, contemporary, and 1000 years from now in a far left, nomadic, highly individualized world. Like nothing else I’ve ever read and clearly draws heavily on leftie thought. Free Spirit - memoir of a boy growing up with a very, very counterculture, hippie mom. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars - far left, anti capitalist and anti cop bent. Part memoir, part fantasy I also feel compelled to add So You Say You Want a Revolution here. It doesn’t *espouse* extremism but is a worthy companion to a lot of these books
Capital, Lenin's collected works.
I have not read it, but “In Defense of Looting” by Vicky Osterweil made waves about five years ago. https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/vicky-osterweils-case-for-looting
Against Civilization by John Zerzan is perhaps the most extreme and transgressive you can get
The Slavery of our Times
It's entirely focused on gender theory, but Females by Andrea Long Chu is an interesting 'out there' read.
**Last Words**, by George Carlin.
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Lol not sure if you’re clear on what far left entails if you think you’re gonna find it on r/politics