/leftylit/

Thread to discuss literature with your fellow lefty anons. Fiction, theory, science, history all is welcome.
What is your favorite fiction book?
What is your favorite non-fiction book?

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atlas shrugged
basic economics

I was in high school once too

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its funny how ancaps base their ideology around poorly written fiction novels

Idk maybe lord of the rings?
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Worlds in Collision by Velikovsky.

It is truly one of the grandest attempts at speculative historical materialism. Rather than merely chalk up mythology as a mere alienated dream of humanity, Velikovsky finds the general unity of mythological themes across cultures to be too much for mere subjective dream, too many structures recur despite their appearance differing. Certain identities once existed that were too contradictory to make sense of the connection of the planets and the gods, or the question of why the gods were assigned to certain planets despite their being mere dots to the eye. By taking mythology as a highly distorted and embelished material record, however, Velikovsky produced conclusions which to us are too absurd to accept: that the solar system and the relation of the planets was very different to what we now think, and that this is something that occurred in the span of human conscious history; thus, it is very recent. If it wasn't for what we limitedly know and privilege in our modern astrophysics, the theory would be too much to be coincidence, especially with the forms of petroglyphs related to high energy plasma forms. The plasma idea and a different planetary formation would explain so much about the metaphors and naming of the planets as gods and their aspects, but gravity and gradualism are so far incompatible with the electric explanation of the solar system and its catastrophism.

1a. Notes from Underground,Dostoyevsky.
1b. Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky
2. Pale Fire, Nabokov
3. Anna Karenina, Tolstoj
4. Heart of Darkness, Conrad
5a. Naked Lunch, Burroughs
5b. High Rise, J.G. Ballard

And a lot of other shit, I read a lot
1. Society of spectacle, Debord
2. The lonely crowd, Glazer
3. Amusing ourself to death, Postman
4. La Société de consommation, Baudrillard
5. Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo

Bonus:
Brave New World, Huxley
Young Stalin, Montefiore

Since I started playing DnD I decided for the sake of inspiration to get into genre fiction but every time I try to read some fantasy or sci fi a few pages in I groan at the stupidity and shallowness. Is it me and my e/lit/ism or I'm just not picking the right novels?

How do you find good books?

I have a kindle. I go to amazon and buy everything that I heard of.

Totally you son.

Heart of Darkness is really good and I am reading Crime and Punishment right now. Never heard of Notes from the Underground though, the other Dostoevsky book that I was familiar with was Brothers Karamazov.

1. Beowulf/other various anglo-saxon poems
2. Heart of Darkness
3. Huck Finn
4. Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

1. Manufacturing Consent
2. Yalta (Stalin was the quite the memer)
3. le Bread Book
4. October

did anyone else pick up on the bait

fucking disgusting

leftypol always takes the bait

Why?

The Hour of the Star
The Ignorant Schoolmaster

If you're looking for some /leftyfic/:
Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler. It's set in the near future where capitalism has pretty much broken down.
Nectar in a Sieve, Kamala Markandaya. A young girl gets married, and it's about her growing up, having children, and her marriage in the face of industrialization coming to her village.

Not exactly Left but still breddy gud.

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What exactly is the appeal, I read it in high school and all I got out of it was pretty much "Strong man rips off arms, becomes king, kills dragon, the end". Even as a history major I still don't find it that interesting.

Snail on the Slope
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Aside from being metal as fuck?

How many people here have actuall read non-leftist books on politics and economics either contemporary or historic? I can’t help but feel most of you who actually read have insulated yourselves in a literary echo-chamber.

sweet meme

Nice. He wrote some other good books besides Brave New World. I've read and enjoyed Island his last book, about a hopeful socialist/socially-engineered society and Point-Counterpoint, which takes place around 1920, and is about many different characters and their many philosophies, their struggles, socialism vs fascism.

Ulysses or Point-Counterpoint

sheeit I dunno. Voyage of the Beagle was pretty cool.

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Aside from the usual communist classics which are to be expected, I rather enjoyed Churchill's wartime memoirs from WWII.

What's with the /liberty/fags posting under ancom/ansyn flags lately

To answer your question yes I do read non-leftist books, lots of foundational liberal philosophy and economics (Locke, Smith, etc), and a good variety of relatively contemporary history/economics books I find cheap at thrift stores (recently finished Galbraith's "Money" for instance). Right wing shit I'll sometimes buy but pretty much only to skim for evil quotes lol.

A Rebour is my all time favorite. It's so fucking good, it also made me weary of Lukacs after reading his hot take on naturalism and symbolism as bourgeois shit.
Probably "Society against the State" by Lukacs followed by Lenin's State and Revolution. Clastres made me realize that we must change the fundamentals of society in it's entirely so that a more equal is achieved and with Lenin that the state can be used to help achieve that goal.

But I do. Here's my to read list, with Ortega y Gasset and some brazilian-bolivian neoliberal shill take on Julio de Castilho philosophy and how evil it is due to it is reliance on the state not the market.

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I've read Ayn Rand and shes shit idk how people like her.
Mishima is okay but the the Japanese imperialist in him pretty blatant. idk
I have also read some rousseau and other liberal thinkers they're okay I guess.

I quite like magical realism. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is king. 100 years of solitude is my favorite. I know I'm a basic bitch

I also really like War and Peace by Tolstoy.


That is the appeal nigga. Shit is dank.

I try to read right wing books, but there is only so much retarded garbage one can take before getting bored. It just isn't that much fun to sit there going "no, your wrong, you aren't making an argument." for hours on end.

Kill the Lassallean heretic.

My favorite fiction book would have to be either Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve or Nineteen Eighty-Four by George "He was totally a libertarian and not a card-carrying socialist" Orwell.

I don't think I have a favorite non-fiction book but I could certainly recommend some programming textbooks.

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What is your favorite fiction book? The Wise Man's Fear

What is your favorite non-fiction book? The Ego And Its Own

I'm not even an egoist, but I feel like it is the only meaningful non-fiction book I've finished until now and it helped me defy some beliefs I had.

confessions of a mask

capitalist realism

I also like all the other anglo-saxon poetry. For instance:

I think you can pull a lot of leftist themes from them too like comradery and passion in doing something you love. Though I'm sure nazis could pull some look at le pure aryan tribes or some shit from them as well,,, ehh

Can you guys help me figure out a reading list? I'm to begin working on my undergrad thesis a year from now and need some book recs. I was hoping to compound Benjamin & Mark Fisher in an essay about the experience of viewing turn-of-the-century film in the modern period, and what implications that might have on current epoch. That's still just the basic idea, I'll inevitably change it pretty radically by the end.

At the moment I've got these on my list to start reading:


Probably Stoner by John Williams
Shit, I don't read much non-fiction besides theory. I read Kevin Brownlow's The Parade's Gone By, a history of silent film era hollywood that was pretty darn riveting

Few of my favorites here. Always wish I could actually discuss his books with someone, but being a Clarke fan is suffering.

Try being a Niven fan.

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Here my top 5 of fiction

1.The World of Null-A, A. E. van Vogt
2.The Players of Null-A, A. E. van Vogt
3.1984, Orwell
4.Brave new world,Huxley
5.L'Étranger, Camus

And here my top 5 of non-fiction

1. On the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche
2. Beyond Good and Evil,Nietzsche
3. Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order, Spinoza
4.Critique of Pure Reason, Kant
5. The World as Will and Representation,Arthur Schopenhauer.