<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RTSG - Publications: ..ıİı..]]></title><description><![CDATA[Writings on the side...]]></description><link>https://www.rtsg.media/s/side</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YObw!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8dbd759-76c7-4e30-8811-e6a9ee9d4975_1280x1280.png</url><title>RTSG - Publications: ..ıİı..</title><link>https://www.rtsg.media/s/side</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:21:44 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.rtsg.media/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[RTSG]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[rtsg@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[rtsg@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[RTSG]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[RTSG]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[rtsg@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[rtsg@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[RTSG]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Book recommendations by RTSG]]></title><description><![CDATA[The team gives you reading recommendations...]]></description><link>https://www.rtsg.media/p/book-recommendations-by-rtsg</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rtsg.media/p/book-recommendations-by-rtsg</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[RTSG]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 18:44:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/eb32da7b-1cbf-414d-8483-4658226ab827_1500x500.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A major problem that haunts online political communities is the lack of in-depth and broad reading. This list offers a diverse range of books covering ancient, Middle Eastern, European, American and modern histories; classical and neoclassical economics; political history, science, and theology; hermeneutics; ontologies; media and art critique; mathematics; robotics; science; biology; genetics; virology; military science; fiction, and more. Every member of the team has provided their personal 20 recommendations, so be sure to read all the suggestions and save this article for future readings.</p><h4><a href="https://www.rtsg.media/i/146981252/ahmad">Ahmad</a></h4><ul><li><p>Anti-D&#252;hring, by Friedrich Engels</p></li><li><p>Being and Time, by Martin Heidegger</p></li><li><p>Communist Postscript, by Boris Groys</p></li><li><p>Five Essays on Philosophy, by Mao</p></li><li><p>Fourth Political Theory, by Aleksandr Dugin</p></li><li><p>German Ideology, by Friedrich Engels</p></li><li><p>Ibn Khaldun's Prolegomena, by Abd al-Rahman Ibn Khaldun</p></li><li><p>Imagined Communities, by Benedict Anderson</p></li><li><p>Intelligent Materialism, by Evald Ilyenkov</p></li><li><p>Lenin, by Lars Lih</p></li><li><p>Liberalism: A Counter-History, by Dominico Lasurdo  </p></li><li><p>Outline of a Phenomenology of Right, by Alexandre Koj&#232;ve</p></li><li><p>Question Concerning Technology in China, by Yuk Hui</p></li><li><p>Sovereign Collection, by Carl Schmitt</p></li><li><p>Spectres of Marx, by Jacques Derrida</p></li><li><p>State &amp; Revolution, Vladimir Lenin</p></li><li><p>Sublime Object of Ideology, by Slavoj &#381;i&#382;ek</p></li><li><p>Super-Imperialism, by Michael Hudson</p></li><li><p>Total Art of Stalinism, by Boris Groys  </p></li><li><p>Unknown Cultural Revolution, by Dongping Han</p></li></ul><h4>August</h4><ul><li><p>Plato: Complete Works - Plato, ed. by John Cooper</p></li><li><p>Deep Time of the Media - Siegfried Zielinski</p></li><li><p>Understanding Media - Marshal McLuhan </p></li><li><p>The Fourth Industrial Revolution - Klaus Schwab</p></li><li><p>Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand C&#233;line</p></li><li><p>Introduction to Metaphysics - Martin Heidegger</p></li><li><p>Lacan in Contexts - David Macey</p></li><li><p>Grundrisse - Karl Marx</p></li><li><p>On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects - Gilbert Simondon</p></li><li><p>Introduction to the Reading of Hegel - Alexandre Koj&#232;ve</p></li><li><p>Theory of the Partisan - Carl Schmitt</p></li><li><p>Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine - Norbert Wiener, Doug Hill, Sanjoy Mitter, 2019 edition </p></li><li><p>Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - MIT Press</p></li><li><p>Almost Zero - Vladislav Surkov</p></li><li><p>Generation Existential - Ethan Kleinberg</p></li><li><p>Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad</p></li><li><p>Dominic Cumming&#8217;s <a href="https://dominiccummings.com/">blog</a></p></li><li><p>Cyclonopedia - Reza Negarestani </p></li><li><p>Art Power - Boris Groys</p></li><li><p>The Concept of the Political - Carl Schmitt</p></li><li><p>The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb</p></li></ul><h4><a href="https://x.com/ChenKojira">Chen</a></h4><ul><li><p>Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners by Roland Boer</p></li><li><p>The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism by Michael Hudson</p></li><li><p>Deng Xiaoping and the Cultural Revolution by Deng Rong</p></li><li><p>The East is still Red by Carlos Martinez</p></li><li><p>The Beginning of the End: Lessons of the Soviet Collapse by Carlos Martinez</p></li><li><p>The Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping by Deng Xiaoping</p></li><li><p>The Selected Works of Chairman Mao by Chairman Mao Zedong</p></li><li><p>The Dynamics of Economic Growth: Policy Insights from Comparative Analyses in Asia by Vu Minh Kuong</p></li><li><p>Productivity, Vol. 3 Information Technology and the American Growth Resurgence by Dale Jorgenson</p></li><li><p>The Economics of Productivity by Dale Jorgenson</p></li><li><p>Dynamic Forces in Capitalist Development: A Long-Run Comparative View. by Angus Maddison</p></li><li><p>Is China still Socialist? A Marxist critique of J&#225;nos Kornai&#8217;s analysis of China by Heiko Khoo</p></li><li><p>Marxism and Socialism with Chinese Characteristics by Jin Huiming</p></li><li><p>China's Great Road by John Ross</p></li><li><p>Ten Crises, the Political Economy of China's Development (1949 - 2020) by Wen Tiejun</p></li><li><p>Power and Primacy: A History of Western Intervention in the Asia-Pacific. by A.B. Abrams</p></li><li><p>The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism by Carlos Garrido</p></li><li><p>Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel</p></li><li><p>The Political and Economic History of China (1949 - 1976) by Hu Angang</p></li><li><p>Mao and the Cultural Revolution (Volume 1-3) by Hu Angang</p></li></ul><h4><a href="https://x.com/RTSG_Mak">Mak</a></h4><ul><li><p>Alliance that Never Was, Carley</p></li><li><p>Stalin's Gamble, Carley</p></li><li><p>Spectre of War, Haslam</p></li><li><p>The Soviets, the Munich and the Coming of World War II, Ragsdale</p></li><li><p>The Soviet Union and Origins of World War 2, Roberts</p></li><li><p>Mission to Moscow, Davies</p></li><li><p>Maisky's Diary, Gorodetsky</p></li><li><p>The Road to Terror, Getty</p></li><li><p>Life and Terror, Thurston</p></li><li><p>Fraud Famine and Fascism, Tottle</p></li><li><p>Natural Disaster and Human Actions, Tauger</p></li><li><p>Soviet Peasants and Collectivization, Tauger</p></li><li><p>Stalin's Constitution, Lomb</p></li><li><p>Stalingrad, Glantz</p></li><li><p>History and Critique of a Black Legend, Losurdo</p></li><li><p>Nomos of Earth, Schmitt</p></li><li><p>Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn</p></li><li><p>Against Method, Feyerabend</p></li><li><p>For a Left Populism, Mouffe</p></li><li><p>The Protestant Ethic, Weber</p></li></ul><h4>Nasser</h4><ul><li><p>The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb </p></li><li><p>Social and Economic Networks by Matthew O Jackson </p></li><li><p>Marx's Economics: a dual theory of growth and value by Michio Morishima </p></li><li><p>A Mathematician&#8217;s Apology by GH Hardy</p></li><li><p>Against Method by Paul Feyerabend </p></li><li><p>Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk </p></li><li><p>The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by John Mearshimer </p></li><li><p>Heidegger and the Ideology of War: Community, Death, and the West by Domenico Losurdo </p></li><li><p>Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution by Robert Allen </p></li><li><p>The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan's Great Recession by Richard C Koo </p></li><li><p>Nietzsche, Volume 1: The Will to Power as Art by Martin Heidegger </p></li><li><p>The Impossible State by Wael Hallaq </p></li><li><p>Planning Problems in the USSR: The Contribution of Mathematical Economics to Their Solution 1960-1971 by Michael Ellman </p></li><li><p>America by Jean Baudrillard </p></li><li><p>Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms by David JC Mackay</p></li><li><p>Islam in Liberalism by Joseph Massad</p></li><li><p>Nietzsche: The Aristocratic Rebel by Domenico Losurdo</p></li><li><p>The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective by Robert Allen</p></li><li><p>Probability Theory: The Logic of Science by ET Jaynes</p></li><li><p>The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse by Steven D Smith</p></li></ul><h4><a href="https://x.com/BTinsky">Louis</a></h4><ul><li><p>Debt: The First 5000 Years, by David Graeber</p></li><li><p>El mito de la Izquierda; El mito de la Derecha, by Gustavo Bueno </p></li><li><p>NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe, by Daniele Ganser </p></li><li><p>Selected Writings of Girolamo Savonarola</p></li><li><p>The Forms of Negation: Metre and Metaphysics in the Versification of T.S. Eliot</p></li><li><p>Crusade or class war : the Spanish military revolt, by Jose&#769; Manuel Gallegos Rocafull</p></li><li><p>The Fascist Offensive: And the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class Against Fascism, by Georgi Dimitrov</p></li><li><p>Aeons without History &#8212; Thesis on the Metacartel, by Vincent Garton and Edmund Berger</p></li><li><p>The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity, by Eugene McCarraher</p></li><li><p>The art of law-giving, by James Harrington</p></li><li><p>Spiral of Violence, by H&#233;lder C&#226;mara</p></li><li><p>Law of Freedom in a Platform, by Gerrard Winstanley</p></li><li><p>On Wealth and Poverty, John Chrysostom</p></li><li><p>Ownership: Early Christian Teaching, Charles Avila</p></li><li><p>Camilo Torres, Liberation Theology, and Marxism, Marco Gabbas</p></li><li><p>Iberofonia y Socialismo, Santiago Armesilla</p></li><li><p>On the History of Early Christianity, by Friedrich Engels</p></li><li><p>The English Revolution 1640, by Christopher Hill</p></li><li><p>The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution, by Christopher Hill</p></li><li><p>Oliver Cromwell, by John Morrill</p></li></ul><h4><a href="https://x.com/angloromanian">Rares</a></h4><ul><li><p>The Theory of a Multipolar World, Alexander Dugin </p></li><li><p>Red Theology: on the Christian Communist tradition, Roland Boer </p></li><li><p>Criticism of Heaven, Roland Boer </p></li><li><p>Dialectics of Abstract &amp; Concrete, Evald Ilyenkov </p></li><li><p>Soviet Psychology: Dialectical Logic, Evald Ilyenkov </p></li><li><p>The Total Art of Stalinism, Boris Groys</p></li><li><p> Land and Sea: A World-Historical Meditation, Carl Schmitt </p></li><li><p>Constitutional Theory, Carl Schmitt </p></li><li><p>History of the Three Internationals, William Z Foster </p></li><li><p>Collapse of Antiquity, Michael Hudson</p></li><li><p>Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, Louis Althusser </p></li><li><p>Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union, Vladislav M. Zubok </p></li><li><p>Textbook of Marxist Philosophy, M. Shirokov </p></li><li><p>Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism, Otto Wille Kuusinen </p></li><li><p>Dialectical Materialism, Maurice Cornforth </p></li><li><p>The Science of Logic, G.W.F Hegel </p></li><li><p>The Philosophy of History, G.W.F Hegel </p></li><li><p>Class Struggle: A Political and Philosophical History, Domenico Losurdo </p></li><li><p>Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith </p></li><li><p>A People&#8217;s History of England, A.L. Morton</p></li></ul><h4><a href="https://x.com/REVMAXXING">Rev</a></h4><ul><li><p>Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 - 4 (Penguin Classics) by Karl Marx</p></li><li><p>A Companion To Marx's Capital by David Harvey</p></li><li><p>Reclaiming Marx's 'Capital': A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency by Andrew Kliman</p></li><li><p>An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital by Michael Heinrich</p></li><li><p>The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes</p></li><li><p>Nonfinancial Economics: The Case for Shorter Hours of Work by Eugene McCarthy</p></li><li><p>Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987&#8211;2007 by Nick Land</p></li><li><p>Free time : the forgotten American Dream by Benjamin Hunnicutt</p></li><li><p>Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty</p></li><li><p>Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber</p></li><li><p>The Global Minotaur by Yanis Varoufakis</p></li><li><p>Law of the Accumulation and Breakdown by Henryk Grossman</p></li><li><p>Money and totality by Fred Moseley</p></li><li><p>An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army by Fredric Jameson</p></li><li><p>The Ontology of Finance: Price, Power, and the Arkhederivative by Suhail Malik</p></li><li><p>The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts</p></li><li><p>Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin Kelley</p></li><li><p>Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist by Harry Haywood</p></li><li><p>The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village by Dongping Han</p></li><li><p>Dialectics of Nature by Frederick Engels</p></li></ul><h4><a href="https://x.com/FORTRESSMAXXING">Ruslan</a></h4><ul><li><p>Lamarck's Signature: How Retrogenes Are Changing Darwin's Natural Selection Paradigm, by E. J. Steele.</p></li><li><p>Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease, by P. W. Ewald.</p></li><li><p>Evolution of Infectious Disease, by P. W. Ewald.</p></li><li><p>Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953, by Simon Ings.</p></li><li><p>Lysenko&#8217;s Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia, by Loren Graham.</p></li><li><p>Bees: The Biology of the Bee Colony &amp; the Achievements of Bee Science, by Iosif Khalifman.</p></li><li><p>The River: A Journey Back to the Source of HIV and AIDS, by Edward Hooper.</p></li><li><p>Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature, by R. Lewontin, S. Rose, and L. Kamin.</p></li><li><p>Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, by Cixin Liu.</p></li><li><p>Resistance to the Shah: Landowners and the Ulama in Iran, by Mohammad Gholi Majd.</p></li><li><p>Great Britain &amp; Reza Shah: The Plunder of Iran, 1921&#8211;1941, by Mohammad Gholi Majd.</p></li><li><p>Persia in World War I and Its Conquest by Great Britain, by Mohammad Gholi Majd.</p></li><li><p>The Great Famine and Genocide in Persia, 1917&#8211;1919, by Mohammad Gholi Majd.</p></li><li><p>Iran Under Allied Occupation in World War II: The Bridge to Victory &amp; a Land of Famine, by Mohammad Gholi Majd.</p></li><li><p>Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran, by Parvaneh Pourshariati.</p></li><li><p>Iran at War: Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia, by Maziar Behrooz.</p></li><li><p>The Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896, by Abbas Amanat.</p></li><li><p>The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding, by Eric Nelson.</p></li><li><p>Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon.</p></li><li><p>The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World from the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests, by G. E. M. de Ste. Croix.</p></li></ul><h4><strong>Writer 9 </strong></h4><ul><li><p>Karl Marx, Grundrisse </p></li><li><p>Ernest Hemingway, For whom the Bell Tolls </p></li><li><p>Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms </p></li><li><p>Nikolai Ostrovsky, How the Steel Was Tempered </p></li><li><p>Herodotus, The Histories </p></li><li><p>G.W.F Hegel, Science of Logic </p></li><li><p>Friedrich Engels, The Peasant's War in Germany </p></li><li><p>Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls </p></li><li><p>Dongping Han, The Unknown Cultural Revolution </p></li><li><p>Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander </p></li><li><p>Plato, The Republic </p></li><li><p>Vladimir Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism </p></li><li><p>Mao Zedong, On Contradiction and On Practice </p></li><li><p>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust </p></li><li><p>Herman Melville, Moby Dick </p></li><li><p>Joseph Stalin, Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR </p></li><li><p>Carl von Clausewitz, On War </p></li><li><p>Friedrich Engels, Dialectics of Nature </p></li><li><p>Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical materialism</p></li><li><p>Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars</p></li></ul><h4><a href="https://x.com/GyopoSeraph">Seraph</a></h4><ul><li><p>Hinterland, Phil A Neel</p></li><li><p>The Imjin War, Samuel Hawley</p></li><li><p>The Influence of sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812, Alfred Thayer Mahan</p></li><li><p>Blood and Thunder, Hampton Sides</p></li><li><p>The Yankee and Cowboy War, Carl Oglesby</p></li><li><p>Occult Roots of Nazism, Goodrick Clarke</p></li><li><p>Hammer of the Gods, David Luhrssen</p></li><li><p>Hitler&#8217;s Beneficiaries, G&#246;tz Aly</p></li><li><p>Trading With the Enemy, Charles Higham</p></li><li><p>The Secret Hitler, Lothar Machtan</p></li><li><p>The Israel Lobby, Mearshimer</p></li><li><p>America&#8217;s Protectionist Takeoff, Micheal Hudson</p></li><li><p>Bodyguard of Lies, Anthony Cave Brown</p></li><li><p>Debt: the first 5000 years, David Graeber</p></li><li><p>Virtue Hoarders, Catherine Liu</p></li><li><p>Inheritance of Rome, Chris Wickham</p></li><li><p>The Collapse of Antiquity, Micheal Hudson</p></li><li><p>Metaphysics, Aristotle</p></li><li><p>The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman</p></li><li><p>Never Call Retreat, Bruce Catton</p></li></ul><h4>Writer 12</h4><ul><li><p>The Republic, by Plato</p></li><li><p>The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli</p></li><li><p>Liberalism: A Counter-History, by Domenico Losurdo</p></li><li><p>The State and Revolution, by Vladimir Lenin</p></li><li><p>On Contradiction, by Mao Zedong</p></li><li><p>Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance, by Michael Hudson</p></li><li><p>...and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year, by Michael Hudson</p></li><li><p>The Sublime Object of Ideology, by Slavoj &#381;i&#382;ek</p></li><li><p>The Fourth Political Theory, by Aleksander Dugin</p></li><li><p>The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran, by Homa Katouzian</p></li><li><p>The Shahnameh, by Abolqasem Ferdowsi</p></li><li><p>Iran at War: Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia, by Maziar Behrooz</p></li><li><p>The Great Famine and Genocide in Persia, 1917-1919, by Mohammad Gholi Majd </p></li><li><p>From Qajar to Pahlavi: Iran, 1919-1930, by Mohammad Gholi Majd</p></li><li><p>Iran Between Two Revolutions, by Ervand Abrahamian</p></li><li><p>A History of Modern Iran, by Ervand Abrahamian</p></li><li><p>Resistance to the Shah: Landowners and Ulama in Iran, by Mohammad Gholi Majd</p></li><li><p>Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History of Iranian Modernity, by Afshin Matin-Asgari</p></li><li><p>Westoxification, by Jalal Al-e Ahmad</p></li><li><p>The Iran-Iraq War, by Pierre Razoux</p></li></ul>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>