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1.
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
by:
Thomas Sowell
4.32 avg rating β 4,546 ratings
2.
The Ruling Class
by:
Gaetano Mosca
4.02 avg rating β 119 ratings
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The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
by:
James Burnham
4.28 avg rating β 1,893 ratings
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Democracy: The God That Failed
by:
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
4.15 avg rating β 2,399 ratings
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Democracy in America
by:
Alexis de Tocqueville
4.05 avg rating β 26,629 ratings
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The Road to Serfdom
by:
Friedrich A. Hayek
4.15 avg rating β 25,382 ratings
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Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism
by:
James Burnham
4.07 avg rating β 535 ratings
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Vilfredo Pareto: Sociological Writings
by:
Vilfredo Pareto
4.10 avg rating β 21 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Elites
by:
Vilfredo Pareto
3.85 avg rating β 166 ratings
10.
The mind and society
by:
Vilfredo Pareto
3.74 avg rating β 35 ratings
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The Transformation of Democracy (Social Science Classics Series)
by:
Vilfredo Pareto
3.62 avg rating β 34 ratings
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Reflections on Violence (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science)
by:
Georges Sorel
3.57 avg rating β 488 ratings
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Mosca and the theory of elitism
by:
Ettore A. Albertoni
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
14.
Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
by:
Robert Michels
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 221 ratings
15.
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
by:
Joseph A. Schumpeter
3.99 avg rating β 2,893 ratings
16.
The Power Elite
by:
C. Wright Mills
4.15 avg rating β 1,631 ratings
17.
Who Rules America? Power, Politics and Social Change
by:
G. William Domhoff
4.04 avg rating β 460 ratings
18.
Top Down Policymaking
by:
Thomas R. Dye
3.96 avg rating β 26 ratings
19.
Community Power Structure: A Study of Decision Makers
by:
Floyd Hunter
3.81 avg rating β 21 ratings
20.
The Dynamics Of War And Revolution
by:
Lawrence Dennis
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
21.
Aspects of Revolt: A Study in Revolutionary Theories and Techniques
by:
Max Nomad
3.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
22.
James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution
by:
George Orwell
3.90 avg rating β 31 ratings
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The future of intellectuals and the rise of the new class : a frame of reference, theses, conjectures, arguments, and an historical perspective on the role of intellectuals and intelligentsia in the international class contest of the modern era
by:
Alvin Ward Gouldner
3.50 avg rating β 30 ratings
24.
The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System
by:
Milovan Δilas
3.84 avg rating β 271 ratings
25.
The Revolt of the Masses
by:
JosΓ© Ortega y Gasset
4.03 avg rating β 6,257 ratings
26.
Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
by:
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
4.19 avg rating β 129 ratings
27.
The Menace of The Herd: Or, Procrustes at Large
by:
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
4.27 avg rating β 85 ratings
28.
Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Times
by:
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
4.11 avg rating β 245 ratings
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ON POWER: The Natural History of Its Growth
by:
Bertrand de Jouvenel
4.41 avg rating β 283 ratings
30.
Journey to the End of the Night
by:
Louis-Ferdinand CΓ©line
4.19 avg rating β 46,258 ratings
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Proudhon's Solution of the Social Problem
by:
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
3.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
32.
The Ego and Its Own
by:
Max Stirner
4.06 avg rating β 3,758 ratings
33.
Collected Works of Henry Louis Mencken
by:
H.L. Mencken
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
34.
Our Enemy, the State
by:
Albert Jay Nock
4.17 avg rating β 720 ratings
35.
Storm of Steel
by:
Ernst JΓΌnger
4.15 avg rating β 20,491 ratings
36.
Eumeswil
by:
Ernst JΓΌnger
4.23 avg rating β 628 ratings
37.
The State
by:
Anthony de Jasay
4.31 avg rating β 54 ratings
38.
The Servile State
by:
Hilaire Belloc
3.99 avg rating β 613 ratings
39.
Joseph Sobran The National Review Years
by:
Joseph Sobran
2.90 avg rating β 20 ratings
40.
The Therapeutic State
by:
Thomas Szasz
4.67 avg rating β 15 ratings
41.
Power and history: The political thought of James Burnham
by:
Samuel T. Francis
4.10 avg rating β 10 ratings
42.
Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family
by:
Stephen Baskerville
3.94 avg rating β 36 ratings
43.
Cultural Revolution, Culture War: How Conservatives Lost England, and How to Get It Back
by:
Sean Gabb
4.14 avg rating β 22 ratings
44.
The Messianic Character of American Education
by:
Rousas John Rushdoony
4.14 avg rating β 74 ratings
45.
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
by:
Robert D. Putnam
3.85 avg rating β 8,663 ratings
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The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
by:
Bill Bishop
3.84 avg rating β 2,351 ratings
47.
The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History, 1900β1916
by:
Gabriel Kolko
3.73 avg rating β 132 ratings
48.
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
by:
Max Horkheimer
4.11 avg rating β 8,007 ratings
49.
Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy
by:
George F. Kennan
3.89 avg rating β 44 ratings
50.
The Nomos of the Earth: In the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum
by:
Carl Schmitt
4.06 avg rating β 248 ratings
51.
The Rise and Decline of the State
by:
Martin van Creveld
4.16 avg rating β 154 ratings
52.
On War: The Collected Columns of William S. Lind 2003-2009
by:
William S. Lind
4.24 avg rating β 76 ratings
53.
On War
by:
William S. Lind
4.24 avg rating β 76 ratings
54.
4th Generation Warfare Handbook
by:
William S. Lind
4.09 avg rating β 240 ratings
55.
Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
by:
Patrick J. Buchanan
4.19 avg rating β 1,969 ratings
56.
A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny
by:
Patrick J. Buchanan
4.18 avg rating β 299 ratings
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Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress
by:
Lawrence E. Harrison
3.65 avg rating β 334 ratings