Holy shit, the fact that Zero to One is on this is CRAZY. I actually unwittingly read that book after finishing high school, when I foolishly believed American tech was blazing a progressive path forward for society.

That book is a techno-fascist manifesto. In it, Thiel flat out says society should be ran by tech CEOs acting as kings. He lays the groundwork for what Silicon Valley has been trying to do recently with Próspera in Honduras, the Trump plan for Gaza, and there’s been murmurings of a similar idea being pushed for Greenland.

With his involvement in Palantir (among other things) I think there’s a real argument for this being comparable to a Mein Kampf.

While not directly related to impacts from the fall of the USSR, Endless Holocausts by David Michael Smith is an excellent and very thorough book detailing the massive amounts of deaths caused by the USA both internally and externally. It’s a great counter to the claim that communism kills millions of people, while capitalism doesn’t.