/lit/ - Literature

>>2721986
Let me guess as well, that you're one of those morons that assumes that every single libertarian is a hardcore anarcho-capitalist too, righttt?

I'd suggest reading one of his easier ones before jumping into something like Blood Meridian.

I read The Road in high school, unaware that he'd written anything else. I then watched No Country, which was a fantastic movie. In the credits i see that it's based on the book by McCarthy so I looked into what else he'd done and decided to try to read Blood Meridian. I literally just finished it two hours ago, it's definitely one of the best books I've ever read. I don't think I fully understood all of it and it was still one of the best books I've ever read.

I tried reading No Country last year, but the film adaptation was so true to the book that I couldn't really keep my focus on it and haven't finished it yet.

Next, I'm going to read Suttree.


captcha: Milton, ojobiz

>>2594269

Our homeless people don't have it nearly as bad as the rest of the world, my parents were homeless at one point, my friend lost his job and lived in the park for a month last year Try going to a placce that's truly impoverished. In Africa, 60,000 people die every year of malaria, a completely treatable/preventable disease. How about North Korea, where people starve to death every day and don't have rights or security in their persons? Most of the world is still pre-fucking-industrial for christ sakes.

Here in America, our poor have access to homeless shelters, food pantries, soup kitchens, loads of private charity and live in a country that only has approx 85-90% employment rates. Obviously some of the credit has to go to our warmongering imperialistic tendencies, but a great majority of our prosperity is owed to the fact that you are entitled to the fruits of your labor and that you can voluntarily interact with your fellows in any way you see fit (i.e. free market capitalism).

Last-
Of Mice and Men

Current-
Blood Meridian,
The Stand, and
Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic

Next-
Thinking about finally starting on Haruki Murakami's work.

>>2544530
Does Smith advocate this sort of thing in his work? I've never actually read any of his material.

I would assume, from my incomplete view of the issue, that laissez-faire would mean that farmers would be able to do whatever they wanted with their surpluses, or else it wouldn't be a truly free market.
What you seem to describing is a corporatist system in which the powers that be manipulate the laws to create barriers to entry and government aided monopolization.

Okay, so I just started 120 Days of Sodom. This is the most vile, reprehensible, violent pieces of garbage that I've ever read . . . but I can't stop reading. This book is going become sort of gateway into sadomasochism/rape fantasies is it?