After reading the non-violence thread and the discussions about how to implement radical change, I've been working on a reading list.
The goal is to create a list of some of the most radical, unconventional and extreme literary works. The kind of stuff that helps shock liberals out of their stupor. As such, it's not meant to be strictly socialist, "left" or "right". Just works that differ radically from the mainstream zeitgeist.
I'm specifically looking for more anarchist, nihilist, insurrectionary, apocalyptic and strictly socialist works. Also critiques of modern liberal democracy, global capitalism and liberalism in general. I also want to include some communalist works from Bookchin and Ocalan, but I don't know which ones to pick.
Surely someone must have more suggestions for what to add.
Jacob Smith
Dangerous entryism ban this filth
Justin Phillips
I'm guessing that you have no idea what anarchism actually is and are an edgy teenager who wants to smash shit and justify it with long words
Instead of lifestylist BS, have a piece of actual anarchist theory. top fucking kek
Wyatt Miller
If Stirner is the least spooked human and evola is the most spooked human doesn't that make Stirner the thesis and evola the antithesis
what's the synthesis?
Gabriel Roberts
good introductory point Manufacturing Consent is good even though it isn't strictly about socialist concepts it critiques a lot of the system liberals like and trust and it can open the keyhole that can further be widened with other writings and Good break down of a lot reasons for socialism and specifically anarchism. I particuraly found the sections about culture, luxury, and peoples capacity and need for creativity and pleasure to be really good and could open liberals eyes if they would just read it. Good introduction to a lot of socialist ideas through a fiction narrative where you can really see the impacts of capitalism hurting everyone in society. It just goes through discussing all of the reasons for socialism and the arguments against it. For example one of the big things thats highlighted in it is how porky makes the painters do a shittier job to make an extra buck - combating the whole capitalism makes the better product.
Evan Moore
fully automated ultranationalist anarcho-communism with autistic characteristics
Jonathan Sanchez
Can't go wrong with Democratic Confederalism by Ocalan. You can just google it and find the pdf.
Austin Smith
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Brody Parker
lel where did this come from?
Leo Rodriguez
stahp
For Bookchin, it's got to be Ecology of Freedom. For Ocalan, Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization
Cooper Harris
Why haven't I written a book?
Isaac Flores
Please stop this.
Jaxon Campbell
New updated version.
Not an anarchist. See the OP. It's not meant to be strictly [insert ideology]. It's about works that oppose, critique and advocate against the established (neo)liberal-consumerist world order.
None of those works are "lifestylist" though.
Both Stirner and Evola critique and deconstruct modern society, though from different angles. Again, the works aren't meant to be strictly compatible in terms of world views. (A lot of them aren't)
Looks good, and appears to summarize some of the primary arguments in favor of anarchy and socialism.
Another good one. Thanks.
Yeah I'll go with these.
The Ego and His Own is definitely about slaughtering some of modern society's sacred cows. Not all nihilism is existential.
Brayden Evans
Forgot pic
Hudson Reed
Society of the Spectacle Negative Dialectics
btw remove all that nazi mystic shit. you might as well call a drooling retard "radical".
Connor Hughes
Bookchin and Ocalan are not anarchists.
Lincoln Gonzalez
Maybe this might help
Aiden Lopez
What the hell list supposed to accomplish? Most of this shit is contradictory and mutually exclusive. What is the target audience, bored people who want to read about random, unrelated ideologies?
Aaron Sanders
"outside the establishment dogma"
Noah Sanders
What a bunch of crap. Implying destroying the status quo / zeitgeist is a bad thing. People are just so molded in routines and automated thoughts / responds / actions that they fear any form of true freedom. This is capitalist propaganda at it's finest.
Oliver Long
Add "what is property?"
Leo Anderson
The audience doesn't read this thread anyway.
Levi Garcia
Also, "nihilism communism" by monsieur dupont
Hunter Roberts
this is unrelated contrarian shit for the sake of contrarianism.
Wyatt Garcia
Honestly most socialists really need to familiarize themselves with incredibly basic Marxist texts on political economy, as it can be the basis for anything afterwards, including non-Marxist tendencies like the anarchisms and others.
You can be done with this shit in a day if you really buckle down and a few days if you dose it. Indispensable, especially for Holla Forums which is in dire need of even the most basic understanding of political economy from a Marxist PoV.
Wyatt Diaz
Evola isn't a nazi though. And Savitri Devi is so far outside the realm of normality, she just has to be in the list. Besides, Evola's exploration of "Tradition" is actually interesting and somewhat coherent, and miles ahead of the typical nazi masturbation over blondes and skin color. Even if at the end you still disagree with it.
Not in the purest sense of the word. But definitely anti-statist.
Good picks, I'll add those as well.
See It's for stuff that goes beyond "accepted" mainstream political discourse these days. And for sparking people's interests and shocking them out of the vapid monotony of modern liberalism.
The point is that all of it opposes modern liberalism in some form, from different angles.
I'll look into those as well.
Eli Jackson
yeah i don't really see the point of an "anti-normie" list like this aside from reading to critique the ideology. also like none of those except maybe ted man address political economy.
Dominic Jackson
radicalism for radicalism's sake is simply retarded. you don't even have to actually read volumes of eco-fascism/reactionary green anarchism or esoteric traditionalism to understand where their critiques of democracy/capitalist go wrong/why they take reactionary turns if you understand dialectical materialism
Juan Rogers
I get that opposing liberalism is cool right now, but opposing it for the sake of opposing is a waste of time especially when you start suggesting people read people who have almost opposite problems with it., and in fact would probably prefer the status quo over the other ideologies being put into practice.
Cameron Allen
There are a few that address political economy. Besides, the point is to only have the most extreme examples, something that really cuts into liberalism's third rails. There are plenty of normie-friendly works advocating anarchism/ecologism/anti-statism/primitivism/anti-capitalism/traditionalism/neoreactionary thought. However, if it wasn't for the extreme stuff I would have never considered anything other than liberalism, because anything else quickly amounts to just more reformism. (Socdem, "conservatism", etc.)
Change these days is made by extremists. See Rojava, the neoreactionaries in Trump's inner circle, Russian eurasianists or ISIS.
Radicalism for the sake of radicalism is definitely needed if we want to have any hope of toppling the system before it kills the whole world.
Except all this normie tier debate and action is getting the world absolutely nowhere. Just the act of outraging people get's them to consider why they support the system in the first place. It makes them open up to alternatives. Something that doesn't happen if we just remain politically correct. The alt-right didn't just grow because people were disillusioned, it also grew because it was offensive and attracted interest.
Matthew Green
Bump.
I'm looking to include a few more postmodernist works. Does anyone have suggestions? (2 more slots)
I also want to include Zizek, but again, I can't decide what to pick.
