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Essay: Worst Liberal Books (view source)
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|Jean Jacques Rousseau
|Jean Jacques Rousseau
|This directly inspired [[Maximilian Robespierre]] and [[Louis de Saint-Just]]'s [[Reign of Terror]] during the French Revolution, as well as to some extent the [[September Massacres]] by [[Jean-Paul Marat]] shortly beforehand. Plus, it laid the groundwork for totalitarian ideas such as Marxism. It was so notoriously unchristian that, alongside ''Emile, or On Education'', it resulted in not only the book being banned in France as well as Geneva until after the author's death, but also in Rousseau being forced to flee the country and live in exile until returning in 1763 incognito within southeast France. He officially returned in 1770 when the French government lifted his banishment from Paris under the condition that he not publish any more books.<ref>http://www.philosophybasics.com/philosophers_rousseau.html</ref>
|This directly inspired [[Maximilian Robespierre]] and [[Louis de Saint-Just]]'s [[Reign of Terror]] during the French Revolution, as well as to some extent the [[September Massacres]] by [[Jean-Paul Marat]] shortly beforehand. Plus, it laid the groundwork for totalitarian ideas such as Marxism. It was so notoriously unchristian that, alongside ''Emile, or On Education'', it resulted in not only the book being banned in France as well as Geneva until after the author's death, but also in Rousseau being forced to flee the country and live in exile until returning in 1763 incognito within southeast France. He officially returned in 1770 when the French government lifted his banishment from Paris under the condition that he not publish any more books.<ref>http://www.philosophybasics.com/philosophers_rousseau.html</ref>
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|''Steal this Book''
|[[Abbie Hoffman]]
|Aside from the title of the book essentially encouraging people to commit theft, the entire book dealt with promoting the counter-culture of the 1960s, as well as conducting various amoral and illegal behavior. Was also pro-terrorism and pro-drugs (one of the things included in one of the chapters, "Fight!" was growing cannabis). One part even advocated tricking the [[United States Department of the Interior]] into giving someone a free [[Bison|American buffalo]]. Overall, it promoted radical leftist causes. It was notably so controversial that most publishing firms were unwilling to even touch the book, with one editor specifically stating that he wouldn't even let his own son read the book.
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