Pol links

Dear students,

Please see below a list of links of the remaining readings. As usual, just read what is indicating on your syllabus. This list is for reference only, if you have hard copies or other links, that is also fine.

Gook luck and happy reading week,

Eugenia

Pol113 – Readings from Feb. 26 to March 12



Feb. 26 – Property Rights and Wrongs

J. Locke, Second Treatise of Government (1690), Ch. V “Of Property”
http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/locke1689a.pdf

M. Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Intro. & Ch. 1
http://circuloliberal.org/livros/capitalismo-e-liberdade.pdf

Marx & Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848), Pts. I & II
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf

R. V. Rees, “Saving Horatio Alger” (August 2014), Brookings Institute
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2014/08/21/saving-horatio-alger-the-data-behind-the-words-and-the-lego-bricks/



March 5 – Traditional Values and Fears

Owen Harris, “What Conservatism Means” (2003)
https://www.cis.org.au/app/uploads/2015/04/images/stories/policy-magazine/2003-19-02-owen-harries.pdf

Russell Kirk, “Ten Conservative Principles” (1993)
http://www.kirkcenter.org/detail/ten-conservative-principles/

Margret Thatcher, “What’s Wrong with Politics?” (1968)
https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101632

Thomas Sowell, “Is Personal Responsibility Obsolete?” Pt. I & II (2017)
Part I

https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/06/16/is-personal-responsibility-obsolete

Part II

https://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/thomas-sowell-is-personal-responsibility-obsolete-part-ii/



March 12 – Political Violence and Power

N. Machiavelli, The Prince, Ch. VII, VIII & XXV
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1232/1232-h/1232-h.htm

H. Arendt, “Reflections on Violence,” NY Review of Books, Feb. 27, 1969
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1969/02/27/a-special-supplement-reflections-on-violence/

Dana Loesch, NRA advertisement (April – June, 2017)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/nra-ad-the-violence-of-lies/2017/06/30/295dde84-5d93-11e7-aa69-3964a7d55207_video.html?utm_term=.eabf4a74c2a4



March 26 – Tyranny and Totalitarianism

Aristotle, Politics, Bk. V., Ch. 11
https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2017/SOC286/um/Aristotle_-_Politics.pdf

A. Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. I, Ch. XI “Nation and Race” (1925)
http://www.angelfire.com/folk/bigbaldbob88/MeinKampf.pdf

J. Stalin, “The Dictatorship of the Proletariat” (1924)
http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/radical/FoundationsOfLeninismNo1.pdf

Benito Mussolini, “The Doctrine of Fascism” (1932)
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/mussolini.htm



April 2 – The Return & Review

Plato, Republic, Bk. VII, 534b-541a
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0168%3Abook%3D7%3Asection%3D534b

Mark Twain, “War Prayer” (1905)
https://warprayer.org

F. Prose, “Voting Democracy of the Island” (2004)
http://condor.depaul.edu/dweinste/MM/prose.pdf

J. Semley, “The Rise of the Internet’s ‘Dirtbag Left’” (2017)
http://www.macleans.ca/society/the-rise-of-the-internets-dirtbag-left/

R. Newman, “Political Science,” Joe Ramen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqBrw3rQvKo