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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?

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>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

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What's your favorite cosmic horror?

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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 ?

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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.

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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

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Any of you read anything of his?

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all good poetry either inspired or came from imagism, without a heavy focus on imagery, poetry is limp

pprove me wrong

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Helo and welcom to the anime tread
p.s stop permabanning me, stupid mod, ban evading for lyfe

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What would you say if I said that books are dead but literature is better than ever?

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Rank 'em,

Kant, Fichte, Schelling & Hegel.

(Optional): Hölderlin, Schlegel, & Novalis.
(Extra Optional): Berkeley.

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hows it feel knowing the best living author is a woman?

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bit of a longshot but can anyone here recommend any good books on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and/or artificial neural networks ?

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who's the most compelling philosopher? what's their best work?

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more like Kuck Marx!