What'cha reading, Holla Forums?
What's your favourite book?
Who's your favourite author?
What are you planning to read in the future?
Has anything you read recently influenced you?
Recently read Society of the Spectacle, it's making me think about bureaucracy under capitalism and consumerism in a more lateral manner.
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1.Michael Crick's Militant.
2. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3. Alan Clark
4. Althusser, maybe Lacan.
5. Tony Cliff's biography of Lenin was interesting, although told me more about Cliff than Lenin.
I approve of 2 and 4, never really heard of the others
Last thing I've read was "The Hour of the Star" by Clarice Lispector.
Crick's a hack journalist that wrote about the Militant Tendency when it was a real thing in British politics during the 80s.
Alan Clark was a Tory MP that wrote quite good history, and a very interesting diary during the Thatcher government.
Tony Cliff was the leader of the Socialist Workers Party until his death in 2000. Libertarian Marxism, with a strongly anti-Soviet slant.
Any good?
*Should read anti-Stalinist rather than anti-Soviet. He's very fond of Lenin & Trotsky, less so everyone else.
It was devastating, you would like it.
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Imperialism and the Revolution by Senpai Enver Hoxha
Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich and Enver Hoxha
Anything from Hegel
No
oh man, this sounds good
Why do you keep posting the fauux gifs?
Idk, I just like them. I could post anything, just wanna use em.
Keep posting them Comrade.
alrighty, so long as people will keep posting literature
May I request a book?
I'm looking for 'How to read Lacan' by Slavoj Zizek. (I checked the thread on /freedu/, but sadly they didn't have this one specifically.)
In return a short introduction to Carl Jung.
CALLING GINJEET
Got it from >>>/fringe/
Foundation, Asimov
Crime and Punishment
Dostoyefsky.
… State and the revolution…
Nah. I've long formed my self-theory.
Fantastic, thank you.
Anarchy after Leftism by Bob Black
Fortune of the Rougons by Emile Zola
Emile Zola
Max Stirner: His Life and His Work by John Henry Mackay
Learned some stuff about primitivism.
i wouldnt recommend it
1997 -> 2007 -> 1995
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stop trying to make people into namefags
Re-reading The Ego And Its Own, Swedish translation this time, definitely better than the English one tbh
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Master and Margarita, Cioran, Pannekoek
Not really, the Stirner re-read a bit I guess
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What'cha reading, Holla Forums?
dialogues of Plato
What's your favourite book?
Euclid's elements
Who's your favourite author?
I don't know
What are you planning to read in the future?
Ego and His Own
Has anything you read recently influenced you?
Getting interested in mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics
Working on the Phenomenology of Spirit actually, I'm not smart and it's more challenging than anything else I've read up to this point though so I'm taking it slow .
My favorite book is Spookmanual because I'm a member and regardless of how you feel about the content, the writing is lovely and makes you feel something.
After I'm done with the Phenomonology I'm planning on trying to work through a bit of Freud. Any suggestions there would be nice.
I'm pulling a lot of stuff out of the Phenomonology but I should probably wait until I'm done before I decide what to take from it.
Meant memer not member
Assassination Complex by Jeremy Scahill
Today it's A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
Thomas Ligotti
Bitter Fruit by Stephen Schlesinger
Debt by David Graeber
What the fuck is this gay cloudflare 404 page?
Gore Vidal.
The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Anna Karenina
Charlotte Brontë
Too many books, not enough time.
Anything I've read just makes me want more books, is all.
Currently trying and failing hard at slogging through this dense tome.
Favorite book by my favorite author is probably The Fountains of Paradise.
Fucking SJW garbage
Reading Aristotle's Rhetoric then maybe read Plato's Gorgias. I wanna learn more about the sophists.
After that, I dont know. Either more Aristotle or maybe read some fiction like Conspiracy Against The Human Race or Hemingway
Dont really have a favorite author or book, I'm too easily impressed so I more fixate on books I dislike. I really enjoyed Brothers Karazmov and The Metamorphosis, those are the last two that I remeber being really good. Before that I was on a huge Ice and Fire kick
The Reactionary Mind by Corey Robin
It's alright so far I guess. I was expecting more of a psychoanalysis of reactionaries, i.e. an examination of their psychopathologies, but it's really just a history of reactionary thought. Still interesting and informative nonetheless.
On Freud
Ego and the ID
Beyond the pleasure principle
Civilisation and its discontents
Studies in Hysteria
are the ones I liked in that order
Anatomy of melancholy? What's it about?
Any good?
Empire, by Hardt and Negri
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque, by Mark Driscoll (really recommend this one)
Raw Materials for a Theory of the Young Girl, Tiqqun
Don't think I really have one.
Borges, Kafka.
The End of the Revolution, Wang Hui
Both current books are making me rethink a lot of things, though I also have lots of critique against them.
It's a treatise of melancholy, black bile, ghosts, suspicion, envy, discontent, malice and convulsions, and and while Burton's method is pedantic and presented as a medical text this book is colloquial; like a good talk, you can hear the cadence of a disputatious yet friendly voice tirelessly expounding. It is a heavy book, nonetheless, in mass and scope. The quantity, and aptness of his quotations (which there are plenty of—this text is the result of a genuinely bookish and eccentric mind) are complemented by direct and fluent prose. The anatomy has this staccato style which redeems its monotony by a whimsical turn, contrived by intermission and digression to glance at almost every human interest of melancholy.
One of the most absorbing books I've ever picked up. And yet, the more I intend to scrutinize and read it the more I become bewildered. I think I'm going to spread out my endeavours to go over it and place other books in between because it's 2sentencieux4me.
Currently I'm reading "The disposed" by Ursula K Le guin. Its a very good book in my opi ion but sometimes can be a bit much in her imagery. She takes a very artistic approach with her writing. I'm going to be reading Starship Troopers next, I'm taking a bit of a break from political books till I finish these two,then back on study with Kropotkin's Mutual Aid and Fields Factories and Workshops.
As for my favorite author I'd honestly say George Orwell. I love his essays and books. I think it probably a close tie with Robert Heinlein as I really love the moon is a harsh mistress.
1. The Darker Nations
2. Illuminations
3. Nietzsche
4. Hegel
5. Tailism and the Dialectic (read to get the feel for writing polemics; also pic related)
Revolución Peruana: Autonomía y Deslindes (Peruvian Revolution) by Carlos Delgado.
The Economics of Feasible Socialism, by Alec Nove.
Participacion in Politics, edited by Pennock and Chapman.
Por una Vuela al Socialismo, a compilation of the best articles by G. A. Cohen.
Who is this cutie pie?
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Port Royal Rediscovered by Robert F. Marx. It is about pirate archeology.
Real Ultimate Power by Robert Hamburger. It is about objective power dynamics and how they all ultimately intersect at one point: ninjas.
Anonymous. Nobody writes sick and smutty greentexts like he does.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming is next on my list. I have already finished all of tge previous Bond novels.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs started me reading when I was three years old.
The foundation series us amazing.
Its totally a nod to historical materialism.
Asimov was a cool dude.
A Tale of Two Cities
yeah dawg
Did Edmund Wells write that, or am I thinking of a different book?
Charles Dickens
It's historical materialism 101.
After rome, we go to kingdoms, then a merchant republic emerges, and then it becomes empire and it falls.. and I'm now on begining of the Mule and I don't know next…
But I guess it was supposed to go Trader's revolution and Capitalism.
No, it was Dickens.
Think about it more in terms of psycho-history and Marx's concept of the role of his own work, the idea of inevitability and self fulfilling prophecy….
I do all the time. :)
Are you sure that it wasn't Charles Dikkens with two "k"s, the well-known Dutch author?
No, it was Dickens.
Famous Russian Porn Actor.
Rome was transitioning to feudalism slowly throughout the empire period, but it really started to be feudal in the late third century when Diocletian chopped the provinces into pieces and established the diocese.
Yes. When the Galactic Empire had fallen cause it couldn't keep administrating and the galaxy was filled with warlords.
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Is that actually in the Star Wars books? It would not surprise me given how silly that shit is.
Not catchin the thread from the start.
Not getting the Foundation reference.
STAR WARS??? THAT'S NOT EVEN SCI-FI!
FUCKING PLEBS ON MY BOARD???
CALL THE INQUISITION! WE HAVE HERESY ON OUR HANDS!
1. Michael Hudson's The Bubble And Beyond
2. Capital Volume 1 Spengler's Decline of the West is my second favorite
3. Céline
4.Gramsci's Prison Notebooks; finish off reading/watching Shakespeare's canon of plays.
5.Beyond Mainstream Explanations of the Crisis: Parasitic Finance Capital caused me to think more deeply about debt/rentier issues, it got me to reject Third Worldism as being too simplistic and deterministic and to return to a more traditional Leninism whatever its flaws.
I need to find more sources that can reveal how workers are exploited in the era of neoliberal finance capital and why false consciousness without just simply appealing to muh spooks or muh labor productivity.
The Train was on Time - Henrich Boll
Maldoror - Comte de Lautréamont
Robert Walser
My entire library
not really
Bump
Kojève's ouevre
Beckett's "The Unnamable"
Dostoevsky or Tolstoy
Jameson's "An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army"
Badiou's "In Praise of Love" inspired me to delete my online dating profiles
high five
Beckett is pretty dank
Julius Evola
Off yourself.
Who said I was buying anything?
No, also god is dead.
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from little witch academia, i think
this book here is the like the best spiritual communism book out there
max stirner liked this book so much
Is Keynes shit tier literature?
I'm reading Capital, Vol. I. It's so fucking long, holy shit. Also, I'm a couple hundred pages in and Marx hasn't actually said anything about why the labor theory of value holds, he's just taken it for granted. Does he give his reasoning later in the book?
I don't really have a favorite book, but my favorite story is The Garden of Forking Paths by Borges. It's actually about inevitability, cycles, and repetition, but most critics think the opposite because they don't understand that it's ironic.
Also, I read Red Mars recently. It's a fairly realistic look at how Mars colonization could turn out–and it's largely about the conflict between capitalism and freedom. Legit spoiler: There's a revolution. It fails. Shit's depressing, yo.
Kill yourself.
Yes.
He's an excuse to give the state power is what he is.
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kek'd
Truthfully, more like anscrap since you can't be an anarchist and a capitalist. These people ignoring history…
Anyone have a digital copy of "Weapons of the Weak" they would like to share? Otherwise I'll drop the 10$.
Marx doesn't follow the LTV purely, but you're going to have to read a lot more Adam Smith and various texts apart from capital to grasp it tbh.
It's on libgen but too big to post here.
ayn rand, atlas shrugged
the quran
this post
r8 my reading list, Holla Forums
Are you a masochist by chance?
"Steppenwolf" by Herman Hesse, because you recommended it :)
"The solitude of the prime numbers" by Pauolo Giordano.
Dostojevski.
"History and class conscious" by Lukacs & "the society of spectacle" by Debord (mfw its not translated into Dutch)
I've recently read "het voordeel van de twijfel", a book about philosphical scepticism, it's breddy gud.
yes, havent you seen my flag, im a proud right wing free market libertarian, i love watching big strong leftists bang my wife at night.
Civilization and its Discontents
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
don't really have one
I want to read more by the frankfurter schule
Everything I read influences me
Jawel hoor
Ja ik heb die voorkant ook gezien maar ik kan geen (web)winkel vinden waar ik hem kan kopen
How the fuck is an empire collapsing into warlordism silly.
It's happened in history like a jillion times.
In fact isn't that exactly what happened in the Foundation series?
Reading this. Blows "postcolonialism" (specifically "subaltern studies) out of the water and exposes it as the regressive bullshit it is. 11/10, highly recommended.
Can you share some of its arguments? I'm adding it to my to-read list but have exams so it's gonna be a while before I can look at it.
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What'cha reading, Holla Forums?
Marxism and Freedom by Raya Dunayevskaya
What's your favourite book?
Grundrisse by Karl Marx
Who's your favourite author?
Rosa Luxemburg
What are you planning to read in the future?
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes
Has anything you read recently influenced you?
As cliche as it may seem to Holla Forums, The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner