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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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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

1984

I know it's a typical answer. But there's a reason for that.

That book will put the fear of fascism in you in a way that even actual history doesn't. That book caused me to take historic examples of fascism more seriously and personally.

Apparently not enough of my fellow Americans have read it.

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