Noticing references to a lot of people i've never read up on around here.

I'm making a list of people to read on, get some more insight on various ideas related to government, society, politics, economics, and self.

If you have someone and a piece of work you'd recommend as a really good read, post it here.

Charles Darwin
Karl Marx
Dan Brown
and um... I guess that's about it.

you're going to end up with a list of a hundred people

good luck

Best start ..... Plato - The Republic (philosophy for life) and Symposium (about love)

rest can fall into place from this starting point.

Socialism

http://mises.org/store/product.aspx?ProductID=55

i'm looking for particular works as well as opposed to mentioning a person alone (too broad imo)

This is with the reference from the thread discussing anarchy, right?

yep, that's the thread that got me thinking about posting this one~

phail

lol ... foreward by Hayek. Obviously going to be against socialism as he thinks it is the "road to serfdom"

You sir should read karl Polanyi's Great Transformation


and duffman don't read either for a while. certainly don't read a critique of socialism (as is suggested here) without reading its foundations and original authors.