I want to read Marx. Where do I start, which translation, and what secondary materials should I read?
Read the communist manifesto first and then go with Das Capital
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital:_Critique_of_Political_Economy
It depends what you already know really, how well you know the history of mankind, how well you understand economics, what else would you like to learn etc.
tell me more about what you are interested in and why, and what have you read so far
kill yourself for wanting to have anything to do with marx you commie scum
>>7709398
confirmed for not having read it
>Obviously, I couldn't come up with anything to say, but I returned to my hotel deep in thought. It's a fact, I mused to myself, that in societies like ours sex truly represents a second system of differentiation, completely independent of money; and as a system of differentiation it functions just as mercilessly. The effects of these two systems are, furthermore, strictly equivalent. Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens ofwomen; others with none. It's what's known as `the law of the market'. In an economic system where unfair dismissal is prohibited, every person more or less manages to find their place. In a sexual system where adultery is prohibited, every person more or less manages to find their bed mate. In a totally liberal sexual system certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude. Economic liberalism is an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society. Sexual liberalism is likewise an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society. On the economic plane Raphael Tisserand belongs in the victors' camp; on the sexual plane in that of the vanquished. Certain people win on both levels; others lose on both. Businesses fight over certain young professionals; women fight over certain young men; men fight over certain young women; the trouble and strife are considerable.
Was he right?
>No greater mistake could be made than to think the PUAs are modern Casanovas. Casanova was an adventurer and a man of a hundred talents, HENCE his great success with women. PUAs are just a bunch of losers who spent half their lives unable to get laid, and the other half desperately trying to make up for it. Lack of talents and any kind of adventurousness beyond skirt-chasing are REQUIREMENTS to be a PUA. Casanova, meanwhile, while certainly no philosopher, was a true representative of culture. He even rubbed Voltaire's nose in it at one point. PUAs, on the other hand, are strictly anti-culture. Roosh for example goes to London — one of the greatest cities in the world — and reports back that "there is nothing there". Krauser thinks that Austrian economics are culture. GLL thinks higher education is a scam. Half the others can't think of anything else beyond clubs and steroids. They are against marriage, education, work, art, sports... (and of course against philosophy), in short against anything besides getting laid, against any other dimension of life.
That PUAs try to put themselves forward as representatives and defenders of masculinity is an absurd presumption that one should show no sympathy with. There is not the slightest doubt that LACK of masculinity is precisely the reason the PUAs became PUAs in the first place. If you are masculine you have to fight women off, any masculine man knows this. And what they also know, that still escapes PUAs, is that masculinity is not something that can be taught but something you must be born with (it's called genetics), and that the only people who could be fooled that it can be are, indeed, women.
Was he right?
>The 5-year-old child who suggested that America "kill everyone in China" to avoid having to pay its 1.3 trillion dollar debt to that country. We finally got to the point where the solutions to our problems are literally obvious even to children.
>>7709286
Is it wrong that I want Evola to fuck me in my peasant ass while whispering in my ear about higher realities?
So let's try this again...
Post a work of art you like and get book recommendations off it.
>>7709183
some car book by king stephan, the king of horror
>Americans rename Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to "Sorcerer's Stone"
Does this mean philosophy class in America is sorcery class?
>>7709124
No it means that American children are less likely to catch the reference to alchemy.
sorcerer is a cool word for chads and philosopher is a boring word for big gay nerds
>>7709166
Sorcerers and philosophers are both pretty gay, warlock, on the other hand, sounds similar to warlord, and doesn't strike the image of faggy fat men in pointy hats as much as wizard does.
What books or lectures would you recommend listening to as I play Dota 2? I have been listening to some of Poe's short stories and find they compliment a match well; any other recommendations?
the world as will and representation
Portrait of the artist as a young man
>>7709080
Half of that is boring drivel, better an audiobook of P&P v2.
what does social media have to offer the intellectual? are we to rely and revert to www and community websites like /lit/, or do things like twitter and current social experiences offer anything beneficial?
Not really, normie sites are filled with normies.
i'd say it's as shit as /lit/
>>7709030
yeah im old so i remember when AOL dumped their userbase on the legit internet (providers often had their own segregated "networks" back in the day, where the usually distinguished "the internet" something seperate to their userbase.
even though i think everyone should embrace the internet, the signal to noise ratio is getting bad. however this time around I think the web is going to die off in a few decades, and things are going to be federated logins on apps. it's sad but I really think we're going that direction.
Publiquen aquí sus textos. Critiquen y obtendrán críticas.
Oda al pedo:
Es un aire del futuro
que te sale por el culo
y que anuncia la llegada
de una nueva cagada
gb2 Mexico
>>7709012
>tercera persona en un contexto informal
Latinos pls go
Recommendations for Wuxia novels with decent translations?that are easily piratable
"Other" martial-arts fiction also appreciated.
Stop reading brain masturbation and dedicate yourself to actual literature.
Bump for interest
>>7709136
suck shit nerd
just read the complete works of jin yong over and over again. there are some fan/amateur translations floating around online just google around. quality kinda blows. reading wuxia in translation is a bit of a fool's endeavour in my mind.
Good books against the gov
>tfw not at your computer so you can't post your nice liberty snake memes
Civil Disobedience by Thoreau and anything from Tiqqun.
>>7708896
A Marxist cheering on Toussaint L'ouverture and making apologetics for revolutionary murder from Robespierre to Lenin. Pretty much everything anti-statists could hope for
Which version of the bible should I buy?
( iam not Christian nor have I ever been to church)
I am interested in it for its mythological aspects and I want a version that focuses on that part
Cool pictures
>>7708892
A Catholic study bible of your choice.
Revised Standard Version.
Should I read the Aeneid or the Illiad and Odyssey?
I studied one book of the Aeneid in school and really liked it.
do whatever you want you retard
what you should do is make a thread when you've actually read something and want to discuss it instead of worthless threads like this.
>>7708876
Read them all, they are amazing. Book six of the Aeneid is life changing.
>>7708990
jidf pls go
List a bunch of books with good goodreads scores Over 3.8 that were written after 1850. I need to add more books to my library. I've exhausted all the classics. Hitting up torontos used book stores tonight. Give me big lists. Not just 1 or 2 books. Doesn't matter what genre. Only fiction, fantasy, Sci fi, horror, suspense, romance blah blah blah
which ones, BMV?
>>7708784
BMVs, seekers, the handy book exchange, some other book store on Bloor by Christie. If you know any other good ones lemme know.
>>7708781
find it on your own, faggot
Why is Judas portrayed as a villian? I mean, duh, he betrayed Jesus, but why is he considered a bad guy when thanks to him Jesus got the death he "wanted", the one that saved us all from sin, etc.
I think that actually opens another question. If God sent His son to die for our sins, was he supposed to die via torture and humilliation or just die as any human being? If the latter, I can understand Judas being a bad guy, but if the former, then he was just a way to get there.
Borges wrote a really good story about this. It's in Ficciones.
http://www.voxpublica.org/2009/07/three_versions_of_judas.html
>>7708821
Holy shit I actually read this some years ago, didn't remember it. Thanks!
>>7708778
This book is about what you are talking about.
As someone who suffers with a pervasive undercurrent of dissatisfaction and anhedonia, this book is absurdly refreshing. Does /lit/ read Ligotti?
I read his fiction.
>>7708768
I'm interested in reading Ligotti more thoroughly, but he's quite heavy on the nihilism! Can you recommend a quote/section of his that isn't overwhelmingly crushing?
>>7709062
>overwhelmingly crushing
Isn't that the point?
Most of his short stories are quite fun if you don't look into them too much.
What's the name for an ideology in which someone values themself first or only themself?
>>7708739
solipsism is the far extreme where others don't exist.
>>7708739
Libertarianism also known as being 16.
>>7708744
This I guess
Egoism, obviously