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Where do I get started with political science?

I've heard a lot about pol-sci but what are the seminal works in the area?

I am particularly interested in work on democratization.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm
Engels’ On Authority is razor-sharp essay of pure scientific fact—1,386 words—that dismantles anarchist utopianism with upmost efficiency. It takes 5 minutes to read and leaves no room for debate: society itself, revolution, all basic social functions, etc., require some form of authority. This is not an opinion; it is observable fact.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/judgesabo-read-on-authority
Yet here we have some terminally online anarchist penning a 52,000-word monstrosity in response. That’s 37 times longer than Engels’ original piece. The anarchist spends 79 hours' worth of handwriting time (LMAO) crafting this screed. The sheer volume of this "refutation" is itself proof of its intellectual bankruptcy. The Ratio of Copium to Substance is vast, as with all anarchist refutation of socialist theory. Endless semantic quibbling, ("But what is authority, really?") endless circular logic, along with citing hundred other liberals culminates in a pathetic monument to ideological impotence—a 50,000-word confession that anarchism cannot refute Marxism on substance, so it must drown the debate in verbosity. Engels needed just 1,400 words to prove authority’s necessity because material reality speaks for itself—factories need managers, trains need schedules, and revolutions need discipline. The anarchist’s bloated treatise, by contrast, is what happens when unsounded petty-bourgeois individualism tries to deny the objective laws of social organization: an embarrassing tantrum disguised as scholarship, its very length an admission of defeat.

Dr. Asad Haider, editor of Viewpoint Magazine, died yesterday.
https://thepointmag.com/politics/politics-without-guarantees/
https://viewpointmag.com/2015/10/28/making-a-living/

Resharing this great essay on the concrete origins and development of institutional finance capital.
https://www.rtsg.media/p/the-history-and-theory-behind-the
The screenshot is also the clearest explanation of scientific socialism I've come across. Send it to all the novice socialists you know!

The Rate of Profit: Rising or Falling?

Recently discovered there is a debate within Marxist economics that Marx had it incorrect, rather than rate of profit falling, due to capitalist technological innovation, cost-cutting and wage stagnation the Rate of Profit will rise, theorized by marxist economist Nobu Okishio.

Your thoughts?

(By the way, feel free to write in Spanish here. I can understand most of the written language. I'm not risking Portuñol or writing in PT, though.)
So, my plans include getting a job with my technical degree (or with a future one perhaps) and picking up linguistics with an initial capital. Don't wanna talk too much about it so I don't fuck up. But afaik they're pretty rare here in Brazil. I was asking the Google AI, but I figured out that talking to actual people would be good. So,
>In what Mercosur countries would be viable to pick up linguistics as a Brazilian?
My only criteria is, the country needs to be fairly progressive (I'm a sexual minority; don't care about representation, just treating us like people would be great), the uni needs to have some relevancy, and it should be cheaper than São Paulo or relatively worth it compared to USP and UFSCAR, both having a linguistics course.
Afaik, Argentina checks all out. If Milei fucks off in the next election in like two years that would be great, because I'll have more time to learn the language and save money, but not if he takes the public universities with him.
>Gracias.

Post charts.

Albert Gore: Claim of "exercises", as compulsive jumping; per genius mind, capable of separating Jewish and Gentile logic.

John Kerry: Attempt to take "blue cheer" Jordan River Valley "fractal", LSD, to face Bush as if incumbent.

John McCain: Campaign depending on Martha Coakley numbers out of Massachusetts, "Krispy Kreme" donut; hypnosis, from Clear Channel, on donut's trek per Jewish Star of David and related advertising dependence.

Mitt Romney: Support of 41 percent poorest, doctors and nurses; removed and refused, per single-payer health supporting legal marijuana in Greater South; per labor, outside of draft per conscript, draft, or conviction.

Hillary Clinton: Attempt to use hospitals, television, and delivery schedules, combined with coverage per television and family schools, to achieve votes; removed, per report to Elizabeth Warren of voter's fraud through starvation clinics; "Heaven's Gate".

Donald Trump: Voter's outreach, through slave families through Israeli manufacturing and related families; standing against MI-6 and Catholic Church, accusation of Papacy per homosexuality among priests; actually Jewish police officers, retired to be Vatican advisors to mothers per child; Vatican, Anglican, and Chinese.

Kamala Harris: Private security company through Chris Hansen and "Star Trek", on stolen documents per plea bargain of abused child from parents; given credit as abuse, towards multiple self defending parties; "plea bargain".

So, before the site went down there was a thread about serious, rigorous, economic books about socialism, and economics in general, so, not "pop economics", anyway, any good recommendation of serious economics books?