Socialism!!!
Yeah.. tell that to Otto von Bismark…
Why did I even mention his name?
Simple. He was the first secular – anti-clerical, to be more precise, political leader to consider a society as an ‘organism’.
He passionately hated the self styled ‘socialists’ yet he had treated the ‘working class’ a lot fairer than the future ‘popular democracies’ which revindicated themselves from Marx’s teachings.
But enough, for now, about Marx’s blunders.
Who among us has not yet read a personal improvement book?
And what was it about?
How to make yourself ‘better’?
How to ‘stand out’?!?
How many of you have read a ‘personal improvement’ book which mentioned ‘fitting in’ as opposed to ‘standing out’ at all costs?
Finding a place where your contribution will make a more significant ‘difference’ towards the shared well being versus making ‘your’ difference more noticeable to the whole world?
‘Do such books even exist?!?’
Yep!
And the first three which come to my mind – well, four actually, are:
– The Bible,
– The Wealth of Nations – coupled with The Theory of Moral Sentiments, of course,
– The Origin and Evolution of Species.
Also helpful would be
– What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr and
– The Social Construction of Reality by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann.
I’d start with the last two though. And then jump directly to Adam Smith.
Happy reading!
nicichiarasa 