/lit/ - Literature

>>11166597
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
Tales of Horror and Mystery - Edgar Allan Poe
Left and Right - Norberto Bobbio
Loveless series - Yun Kouga
Startship Troopers - Heinlein
Flowers of Evil - Baudelaire
(Honorable mension) O Caminho do Poço das Lágrimas - André Vianco (I read it like, 7 times when I was young)

I read many books, but I think those are the major six. If I need to pick just one... Well, it's kinda hard, but I would say that Poe is my go to. Poe was the dude that until this day is the writer I look up to, is the one I aspire to become. I don't want my wife to die and don't like alcohool, so I am kinda of already in a bad spot to be like him (tho my finances are awfull lately, just like him)., but still, when I write, I often think on the man, and often question myself what could I write that would be as great as his writting.

>>11133346
>Was European colonialism a good or bad thing overall?
If you consider the long run, yes. I can 100% sure of it. Why you ask? Simple: the colonial process helped to integrate regions to a world market in such a scale that made such places need to interect to one another. Colonial elites, including non-colonizer's elite's were able to go to european universitys in order to study and have a high education, with in turn left many of such local elites educated in european ways make their own independence process. Of course, it would be a lie to denny the negative effects of colonization. The european colonizers made social structures that weren't natural to some regions and their economys didn't evolved to the industrial/knowledge stage that majority of developed countrys are today. Of course, this isen't 100% euroepan falty, but the europeans have a finger on it.
European colonization allowed for colonial regions to understand and desire european concepts that are in general universaly good, such as nationalism, democracy or even the concept of human rights.
You can't deny the bad that colonization did, but ignoring the good it did is just ideological fallacy, in the long run, the colonization is what took many nations out of the limbo, like China, Japan, Angola, Egypt and so on.
>Also, any good books on the subject?
Personaly, I don't know any. It would be very nice to see one book talking about the good outcomes of colonization, but I think it will be hard to have a newer one who isen't as ideological blind as the ones who are all "kill whitey". And if someone say "hur dur, slavery" remind such person about the fact that there was slavery everywhere, from everyone, from every fucking place
> I want to learn about the history of colonialism, preferably from both anti-colonial and pro-colonial perspectives.
I will check my shelf for you, OP, brb. But I don't think I have many books about colonialism itself alone.

>>11133353
It's sad that people fabricate myths in order to invade other countries*
Fixed for you
>>11133354
Back to /pol/
>>11133359
>stole the land from the peaceful natives
>subjugated the whole world to slavery and brutality
This bullshit can be said from several african, asian and middle east empires. This is all a bunch of half-thruts by the leftist narrative.
>subjugated the whole world to slavery and brutality
There always is
>maybe there's a reason for white guilt after all
The reason is are groups of people holding positions of power who share a common ideological agenda. They don't realy care about their reality, they care about a narrative, I will see if I can remember of something somewhat "pro-colonial", stuff that I doubt I will have or know, but still, give me some time, brb to tell you.