Most of the classical economists of the 18th-19th century would today be called socialists or Social Democrats. They seriously discussed leftist ideas like worker management, supported progressive income tax, unionization etc.
Yet we are constantly told that classical economics is what today's right-wing libertarians want. Why does this orthodoxy remain unchallenged?
/his/
/pol/
Only fools hold such slanderous views of classical economics. Smith was a huge influence on Marx.
>>9670073
wrong
>try to read a book
>after only a few paragraphs, realize I lost focus on what I was reading and didn't take it in
>reread what I just read
>don't understand the words/allegories
>look them up
>while doing this, go on /lit/, shitpost about books I haven't read
>fantasize about being a writer
>try to write something, give up as soon as I open Word
>go back to reading
>after every page check the /lit/ threads to read new responses
>check my phone in the hope that someone has messaged me
>no one has
>after 2 hours I've read 15 pages
>realize I've forgotten it all
>>9670003
Why not just read the book?
>>9670003
Haha yes, you need to go back to the classics. I suggest Plato
What's your favorite cosmic horror?
I was really expecting Madoka.
Mine isJohn Dies at the End
I know this may sound like a brainlet question but how can I find meaning in books when I read them like for example I read Moby dick and had no idea it was supposed to be a metaphor...I feel like a complete idiot when reading, how does one improve ?
I would also like to know I feel like I read at a high school level should I just read more ?
>>9669961
> should I just read more ?
Yes
Also, there are some decent university literature course videos on the internet you can view. Seminars and lectures on specific books that might give you an idea on how students are introduced to thinking this way, if you aren't planning on taking any more literary coursework for finding patterns and meaning.
Mainly, just keep thinking about what you have read during and after reading it, and don't take the plot and characters at face-value.
>>9669954
Try to actively look for it would be my advice.
I wrote a long ass poem. What do you think?
Cracks hold our world apart, they open up one eye to creep through silent streets. Slithering like malformed reptiles, devouring shades of white as they spit venom and drink deep of life's water. Feast in solidarity, no sin can wipe the slate clean once the fires die, no liquor strong enough to light them again. Cored embers scatter the seas as Rome burns, such sweet melodies of buried dreams. Pierce through the eye of the sun as wings burn through shattered glass, fill the sky with the cries of rebellion. Shatter against waves of steel, fall upon them and pray. Break from misplaced delusion, it's only a flutter of failed fornication, reaching outwards and upwards through legions of scorched soldiers. Place coins on the eyes of every beggar and king, let wine flow from engorged gullets, tasting the blood of heroes drunk from tin cups, chocking the righteous and igniting the meek. Set fires but never spread, unearthly tainted miasma hangs from every breath, lost hopes clung to like blankets through the long night, makes fools of falsifiers and seeps through skinned teeth. Quench ever deeper, drown in your own arrogance and let not a breath of innocence give you doubt. Creatures we are, to creatures we be, eating the lesser as fears evolve and the mountains rise. Give wake to our own lives, salting flayed skin that hangs to broken frames, painting smiles across spines hung from our halos high. Desperate voices call from deep waters, tendrils of light rise from the depths, strangling nations across crooked timelines, swaying through space on a pendulous weight. Liberate from shielded virtues, spinning vices upon silken thread, laying low the depths of depravity, an unchecked cavity in the maw of the world. Sit still and you'll see.
uh yeah it's pretty good cunt keep it up
>>9669868
Poems are the biggest cancer our civilization still holds onto.
Well, is this particular cancer manageable, or terminal?
if you had to recommend someone totally lost in what to read, but they know they want something amazing, what would you recommend? Basically something you personally adored, likely your all-time favorite
>>9669843
The Aleph by Borges
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brian
Ecclesiastes
The Cyberiad by Lem
The Overcoat by Gogol
The short shorts of Kafka
The High Life by Jean Pierre Martinet
All short to very short, easy to read and amazing in very different ways.
>>9669843
Malazan or Stirner.
Any of you read anything of his?
Yeah, loads, years ago. Ginger Man's his best.
>>9669983
I picked up The Onion Eaters, has a good pace so far.
all good poetry either inspired or came from imagism, without a heavy focus on imagery, poetry is limp
pprove me wrong
>>9669678
This post is fucking retarded.
>>9669695
retardedly right
post examples of imagist poetry
Helo and welcom to the anime tread
p.s stop permabanning me, stupid mod, ban evading for lyfe
What would you say if I said that books are dead but literature is better than ever?
>>9669632
I would ask you what you meant by that.
>>9670168
Fucking hell you cunt, it's fucking idiot cunts like you that are fucking up this eypitian papyrus collection forum. The cunt oblivious fucking means fucking #ebooks you fucking waste of fucking oxygen
Rank 'em,
Kant, Fichte, Schelling & Hegel.
(Optional): Hölderlin, Schlegel, & Novalis.
(Extra Optional): Berkeley.
classic /lit/
how would you even rank them and why is Berkeley there?
You have the idealists Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, on romantic (Novalis), a poet (Hölderlin) and one, let's call him aesthetic philosopher (schlegel).
I guess they lived around the same time but with what criteria would you rate them? it's apples and oranges
Anyway my top 3 (just to read) are
1. Hölderlin
2. Hegel
3. Schelling/Schlegel
>>9669537
>(Extra Optional): Berkeley.
Cheeky
>>9670440
Classic reddit
hows it feel knowing the best living author is a woman?
>>9669498
I fucking hated Fudge so much in that book for eating the turtle with no consequences.
>>9669498
At least she's not a nigger
bit of a longshot but can anyone here recommend any good books on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and/or artificial neural networks ?
Russell and norvig was the textbook we had in an introductory class
I just started reading this. It isn't at all technical, but if you want to learn a little about the field rather than get into the field it seems worth reading.
>>9669459
Cool pic, shit quality
who's the most compelling philosopher? what's their best work?
me
my diary desu
Quine - Whither Physical Objects?
A true classic
>>9669448
Spinoza
Ethics
more like Kuck Marx!
haha good one