99.9% of all institutions in my life are at best feudal orders, run by aristocrats so far removed from my life that they wouldn’t even know how to survive without their armies of servants, nannies, and assistants. Democracy needs to extend beyond the state. Democracy must be present in every part of our society, or it will, as it has now, inevitably become nothing more than another oligarchy for and by the rich.
Recommended readings:
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire.
Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber.
Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti.
Neocolonialism by Kwame Nkrumah.
Anarchism and other Essays by Emma Goldman.
Recommendations from the comments:
/u/BallShapedMan - The Dictator’s Handbook by by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
I'd like to add to your reading list The Dictators Handbook.
Fantastic read on the mechanics of politics and how democracy and autocracy are similar in more aspects than we imagine.
That’s one I haven’t read yet, I’ll check it out, thanks for the recommendation!
I'd love to hear what you think as you make your way through it. I've also added some of the books you recommend to my reading list. I'm always looking for my next mind blowing book!