Basically somebody was talking about how socialism is when everybody gets paid the same and so nobody would want to work hard, I told them they were clueless and go read about what socialism is before shit talking it and they said ok what book should I read? I’m not sure I should recommend anything too complicated to somebody who knows nothing. I feel like Socialism Utopian and Scientific might be too old to connect. Any good primers y’all could recommend?
If they need the push that imperialism is, in fact, really bad...I'd try Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America, though it's quite dense and very long.
Another one would be Thomas Frank's Listen Liberal, which is pretty good at giving a slight extra push, though without the need for close reading political theory.
Open Veins is so good
It's a really tough read, though. Because page after page after page is just another description of an atrocity committed in Latin America by an imperial power.