Killer Book about Books that Kill...
My review of 10 Books That Screwed Up the Word: And 5 Others That Didn’t Help (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing House, 2008) by Benjamin Wiker Ideas have consequences; therefore, bad ideas published in books can have bad consequences for generations. Benjamin Wiker, working off of this general thesis in 10 Books That Screwed Up the Word: And 5 Others That Didn’t Help (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing House, 2008), offers a thoughtful critique on ten of the books that laid the philosophical foundations for the ideologies, which made the 20th century the bloodiest century in all of history. Wiker, in 10 Books That Screwed Up the World , insightfully demonstrates the influence of philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men) had upon Karl Marx (The Communist Manifesto). According to Wiker: If we think back over Rousseau, we realize that Marx merely turned Rousseau on his head. Rousseau put an entirely fictional state of natur...