Capital, Volume I

Capital Vol 1. Mostly because it demonstrates two things: 1. How small ideas can have big consequences - each section is a logical consequence of the former, and 2. How multidisciplinarism is greater than the sum of its parts. One can be an ok historian, sociologist, or political theorist, but combined can find connections outside of the narrow scope of any single domain. The accounts of working conditions, especially of children, will never leave me.

"Debt: The First 5000 Years" David Graeber "Kokoro" Natsume Soseki "The Politics of Dialogical Imagination" Hirano Katsuya "History and Repetition" Karatani Kojin "The Structure of World History" Karatani Kojin "Anti-Oedipus" Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari "Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors" Nicholas Wade "Capital, Volume I" Karl Marx These books have been the most informative and thought-provoking for me this year.