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Harry Potter

The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities Capital in the 21st century Principles of Economics by Menger The labour tradition and the paradoxers of politics the little blue book: the essential guide to thinking and talking democratic Arneson, Richard (1982), 'The Principle of Fairness and Free-Rider Problems' Simmons, A. John (1979), 'The Principle of Fair Play' Also the books in this list: https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/wiki/readinglist (don't actually look at the posts, it's pretty cringe)

I think reading classical liberal authors like Locke, Hume, Mill, Bentham, Ricardo, Smith, Voltaire, and Montesquieu is the best way to understand. (And as an aside, I think absolutely everyone on Earth should read Kant, to understand anything that came after him, it is necessary without a shadow of a doubt, even to understand Marxism). But overall, starting with where these ideas came from is the ideal way in my mind.

As an absolute ground floor starting point, I’d suggest getting some 101 level textbooks of any non-explicitly Marxist intro political science course taught in a US university. That will introduce you to general topics and the unique language used in the field; you can read on specifics from there using other textbooks or sources given in the 101 books.

Foucault and Baudrillard are decent intros if you're trying to understand 1950s-2010s post-modernism and the deviation of marxism that it took.

Further reading I would suggest Georges Battielle, Steven Lukes (He's closer to being a marxist but focuses more on structuralism and power dynamics) and Judith Butler.

What about Carl Schmitt?He was also influenced by Hegel.