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    • Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread (1892)
    • Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom (1982)
    • Abdullah Öcalan, Democratic Confederalism (2011)
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      While those are cool books you’re not going to turn a facist kid leftist by gifting them anarchist books they aren’t ever going to want to read.

      Especially when their radicalisation likely came from the instant gratification of social media.

      They probably feel like the odd one out. Feelings of loneliness can often lead to this kind of radicalisation. You want to make the kid feel loved. Gifting them books from your ideology is pretty much the worst thing you could do (unless it’s some sort of “side gift”). Because it’s basically screaming “I’m not going to get you anything you want unless you change for me” — aka. I do not love you unconditionally, which a kid never wants to hear