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To show all the ideological diversity that Hexbear has I think everyone should have to do a polcomp test. Here's mine:
(hexbear.net)
See, I'm no tankie, I'm a radical anarcho communist according to this chart
Link if you want to try it yourself: https://www.politicalcompass.org/test
I just noticed that they have a "reading list" for each of the four quadrants, and it's funny because in some ways it's surprisingly accurate compared to the actual political compass.
The left-wing sections seem genuinely pretty good (relative to the actual PCM test, which lets average American liberals end up in the bottom left section).
Libertarian left has a few books about anarchism, but it mostly consists of books about the history of imperialism and US atrocities (I guess the authors are more anarchist-leaning).
Authoritarian left mostly consists of books about the USSR, China, and North Korea.
The right-wing sections... are revealing in a different way.
Libertarian right is the most extensive of all of them, and has all the writers you'd expect (Milton Friedman, Murray Rothbard, Ayn Rand, etc) as well as some stuff by Ron Paul. There is however one book that goes completely mask off:
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Authoritarian right is mostly just neocons, but there's also
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It's funny that there's nothing written from the American liberal perspective on any of these lists. I guess the site creators just consider them centrists or something?
The authoritarian right list also has Pat Buchanan's book and states that it ”Argues that dying populations and immigrant invasions imperil civilisation”, apparently totally uncritically.
That White, Right and Libertarian book though, holy shit, I can only think of one reason to include such a nobody's book on that list.