Time for a not-completely shitty thread

Lenin
Luxemburg
Engels
Zizek
Wolff

Žižek
Santayana
and Spinoza

Abdullah Öcalan

>unironically
>twice

Ocalan
Bakunin
Kroptokin
Stirner

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Socrates
Diogenes
Engels
Nietzsche
Dostoyefsky
Existentialists
Me.

Oh yeah.
And Zizek.

lenin
gramsci
luxemburg

Sam Harris
Zizek
Dan Dennet
🍀🍀🍀unrhue🍀🍀🍀

I want to cum inside pearl.

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Orwell
Weber
some Foucault (concept of power)
Reclus "universal geography" is amazing, he describes so well my region, like he was a native
Bookchin

xir*

I'm liking you more and more everyday, yugoanon

Uphold Marxism-Harrisism!

Haven't read much yet I guess I am a run of the mill Holla Forums drone with these but:
Zizek
Stirner
Stallman

Guy Debord seems interesting, would anyone reccommend reading him?

She's not real. But I am.

Apo
Apo
Apo
Apo
Apo
Abdullah Ocalan

Engels

Jean Baptiste Say
Johann Kaspar Schmidt
John Henry Mackay
Wolfi landstreicher/Feral Faun
Aragorn!
Cocaine Twitchy Guy.

Reading Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations" forever changed the way I live, for the better. I recommend it to all of you.

How did it.

Mutually aiding Union of egotists

Society of the spectacle I'd say is a must read for commies and probably the best of the whole post modern bunch apart from maybe Foucault.

Also it will make you will never enjoy media again and will want to kill your self at every reminder of the inescapable spectacle

Well if you cosplay as her we could make a deal ( ° ʖ °)

Vaneigem, Lenin, Hegel

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>MILL

Epicurus, Nietzsche, Rawls

Well Marcus was a stoic, and understandably his book has a lot to say about how he viewed the world as a stoic.

Now, for me I was a young kid of about fourteen reading it due to my fascination with ancient Roman history/warfare/lifestyle what have you. I was also a kid who'd had a pretty rough upbringing, spending my life in an orphanage with seven other ghetto ass kids. Father was a piece of shit, mother a drug addict. I always had asked "why me?", or "what on Earth did I do to deserve this" while I attended a pretty upper class high school with upper class kids who received BMW's and Mercedes for their birthdays.

Anyway, reading Meditations taught me a lot about how to deal with stress. Or rather, the uselessness of stressing yourself out while trying to navigate problems that life deals you. A lot of it boils down to say…if there's a roadblock in front of you figuratively speaking. It makes no sense, and solves nothing at all by saying things like "fuck, why did this roadblock block MY path?" or any other amount of bitching about the actual roadblock. It helps nothing, and actually hurts the situation to just stress out about the problem in front of you. Find ways around it, under it, through it even.

But even if that roadblock effectively ends your path right there, there is still the matter of *acceptance*. Marcus' words taught me how to accept these roadblocks as facts of life that cannot be changed in that instant or even your lifetime. Sure, I had a tough life as a kid. Sure, I'm pretty fucked up as far as emotions go and forming connections with people. Its my lot in life, and I don't feel *any way at all* about my situation anymore. But just as a tree has to be cut down by the lumberer, so did I have to have this happen. You must accept these things as much as you'd accept your arm being attached to you; it just is. Any kind of feeling at all about the situation doesn't help or hurt or anything, its just useless. Going to the Army solidified this approach on life; I really no longer feel any stress in my life really. I get tasks, I solve them. I get problems (girlfriend problems, paying bills, finding jobs, internships, etc) and I solve them, I don't feel anything either way about them.

You might say "Cavalry user, that's easy. Just don't be a bitch and do what you have to do". But its not that easy. No matter how tough guy someone wants to act, they still have their private thoughts detailing things like "what am I going to do, how am I going to get through this!". It takes a long time practicing filtering out your useless noise going around in your head, taking a breath, and truly feeling no sort of stress when dealing with life. It helps a lot, and definitely has helped me be as "successful" as I am coming from the background I did. It makes you more charismatic (not giving a shit what people think helps IMMENSELY talking to other people), makes you just a more attractive person in general. Anyway, it was reading books like Marcus Aurelius' as well as "The Book of Five Rings" by Miyamoto Musashi that helped me in a personal way immensely more than any reading I ever did of Marx (EP Manuscripts, CoGP, Capital, etc), Lenin, or Sorel. I am a staunch communist and of course these books helped me find my worldview.

But relating to communism, Musashi and Aurelius' books helped me learn the biggest lesson I could about communism: the work we do now will never allow us to experience the benefits. and thats ok. This is something this whole message board should really seek to at least think about. Fully automated luxury communism, socialism… these are things that many of us here will never get to fully experience. Automation will not end class strife and the suffering of innocents the world over within our lifetimes (IMO). For me, this is a fact I've accepted and it makes my fire burn stronger because I'm not working for my personal gain in life anymore. I'm doing what I do to benefit the younger generation who come after us who will have to learn about places like Venice from a book because the greed of the bourgeoisie caused the sea to swallow up beautiful landmarks like it. Acceptance and working within the limitations life has placed on you for no reason at all are the lessons I took from Marcus, I implore you all to explore it too.

(TLDR: Unfortunately stoicism can be seen as a way for people to completely ignore bullshit in their lives and just keep on trucking changing nothing at all in the meantime. That's fine, but its just a perspective. There are ways to make it work for yourself as a communist, too. And generally in life.)

Stirner in some ways a bit. J. S. Mill really clarified a lot of my thought on what freedom actually looks like, even if I think his economics are kind of inimical to the liberty he seemed to want. George Orwell is also pretty based, because he seems to have a pragmatism and focus on real humans lacking in many of the over-dogmatic hacks of the world. I'm also a bit interested the ideas of Isaiah Berlin, although I haven't read much of his stuff yet.

Althusser
Baudrillard
Debord
Deleuze & Guattarri
Foucalt
Gramsci
Marcuse
Zizek

Stirner
Nietzsche
Bakunin
Me
Luxembourg (negatively)

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Marx, Chomsky, Zizek, Orwell would probably be the top four in my initial conversion to Leftism.

Aristotle
Nietzsche (probably the most tbh)
Marx :^)
Engels
Lenin (got me out of my anarchist phase)
Hegel
Zizek (unironically, he got me into psychoanalysis)
Debord

ME ME ME

sad life, prole

10/10

Go Nagai
Yasuhiro Imagawa

Noam Chomsky
Jon Stewart
Bill Maher
Gloria Steinem
Jesse Jackson

What is wrong with consequentialism?

Max Stirner
Albert Camus
Hegel
Holla Forums posters

Mises

God help you

Just ordered the rest of Deleuze's oeuvre (cinema I & II, Nietzsche and Kant) after I finish those I am going to be looking into Schelling.

Society of the Spectacle is not post-modern you twat