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The art of war. I would say anything by George Orwell but I know for a fact kids are forced to read his shitty fairy tales in high school as a part of their ideological brainwashing

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The art of war is actually quite short though

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Imagine the number of stonk devils, business ghouls, and tech demons that have a copy as a library or coffee table decoration piece.

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it’s not even relevant if they did read it. It’s an instruction manual for running an ancient chinese army

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Tbf far from the worst book they haven’t read

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We found the conservative

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I think they’re good books, it’s just that they’re again and again referred to as “proof that communism was horrible” by people who have not the slightest clue how communism actually was besides what the western governments tell them about it

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Really I found them dull 1984 especially

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Written by a British imperial cop who doesn’t have the slightest clue about the place he’s writing about and relies on his own life experience of oppressing Indians for King and Country to fill in the gaps

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Kids being forced to read 1984 in high school like “THIS IS LITERALLY 1984”

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