/lit/ - Literature

Bertrand de Jouvenel - On Power
Vilfredo Pareto - The Mind and Society
Gaetano Mosca - The Ruling Class
Robert Michels - Political Parties

This is the basic literature for you to start seeing politics as it is instead of how writers want it to be.

>>9796997
Money is a medium of exchange and storage of value. It can't corrupt anything.

Power corrupts, money as a medium and storage of value can bring power, but it's subordinate to it, not above. Since communism is about absolute political power, no political system can be as corrupt as it.

>b-but muh anarcho-communist, muh Rosa, muh Makhno

If you still think political power correlates to the formal structure of the state, then you're still in entry-level politics and should not be allowed to discuss with the grow-ups

One of the essential texts for those who want to discuss politics as it is, instead of as you wanted it to be.

Other authors that could be mentioned are Vilfredo Pareto, Robert Michels, Gaetano Mosca, James Burnham and Carl Schmitt.

>all these people recommending books based on the desired politics of the author, not in analysis of how political power actually operates

Actual essential reading list for political science

Bertrand de Jouvenel - On Power
Vilfredo Pareto - The Mind and Society
Robert Michels - Political Parties
Gaetano Mosca - The Ruling Class
Georges Sorel - Reflections on Violence
James Burnham - The Managerial Revolution

Bertrand de Jouvenel should be required reading for rightists.

You never look at politics the same again after reading him.