Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism is easily the most accessible text on Late Capitalism. Fisher explains throughout how Late Capitalism has asserted itself as the final stage in history, and in its new phase has created a mental health epidemic, addicting us to a sensation-stimulus matrix of fast food and consumer bliss. It has created a Market Stalinism, a free market totalitarianism. Mark took his own life in 2017, Rest in power, Mark Fisher

Johnny Got His Gun is possibly the best anti-war novel ever written. Joe Bonham is sent into the trenches of France in World War One where somewhere exists a bomb with his number stamped upon it. Bonham is mutiliated to where his eyes, nose, ears, mouth, arms, and legs are stolen from him while he lays trapped in his mind. Bonham's evolution through the story eventually leads him to culminations in understanding which I really should not spoil.

Society is ruled by the harsh maxim: "production for the sake of production." The decline from craftsman to worker, from an active to an increasingly passive personality, is completed by man qua consumer—an economic entity whose tastes, values, thoughts and sensibilities are engineered by bureaucratic "teams" in "think tanks." Man, standardized by machines, is reduced to a machine

If you're looking to get into reading Murray Bookchin, or have at least submitted the demands of the leftist dank memesphere to "google bookchin" Post-Scarcity anarchism is a fantastic place to start in Bookchinite philosophy. Bookchin expands profoundly upon the libertarian socialist philosophies of Kropotkin, Bakunin, Goldman etc. by bringing it into contemporary politics and merging it with a new focus on ecology and man's connection to nature.

Ayn Rand is trash. Not worth reading.

The Conquest of Bread is a necessity for anyone exploring Anarchist Communism or Leftist politics in general. Kropotkin's prose is continually inspiring and powerful throughout. One of the main aspects of the work I find most interesting is his immense detailing of collected data about European economy; its ability to easily create abundances to meet human needs. How amazing it would be to compare data from today's global economy: 126 years later!

"Literature, science, and art must be cultivated by free men. Only on this condition will they succeed in emancipating themselves from the yoke of the State, of Capital, and of bourgeois mediocrity which stifles them."- Pyotr Kropotkin (The Conquest of Bread)