/lit/ - Literature

Judging from Homage to Catalonia, Stalin seemed more concerned with defeating the anarchists and Trotskoids than defeating Franco. Why was that when he could have united with them and easily defeated Franco, then mopped the floor with the dissidents afterwards with no difficulty?

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>The guy who wrote this

Sorry, meant this
>>17965043
And this
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Respectively

Both by converts

A few titles from the ISIS reading list for current affairs. Features all sorts of writers from Noam Chomsky to Ron Paul

David R. Loy, “The Religion of the Market”

>One of the most influencing religions today is one that most may not commonly refer to as a religion. Economics and its object of worship “the Market”, David Loy argues in this brief paper for the Journal of the American Religion Academy, is more akin to religion than it is a science. The paper can easily be found online.

Henry Kissinger, "World Order"

>Kissinger and Chomsky are complete opposites (with Chomsky rightfully calling Kissinger a war criminal). Nevertheless, this book is informative and offers historical insight to how the Westphalian order came about and the problems of keeping it or any international order.

Ha-Joon Chang, "Bad Samaritans – The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism"

>One of the top critiques of the open market globalization that almost engulfs the entire planet. A well researched book which deals with the false doctrine of free trade and liberal capitalism that rich nations force on poor and ‘developing’ countries, and how the rich nations today did not become rich through the policies they submit the poorer nations to. I recommend reading the first two books mentioned above to gain a better understanding and appreciation of this book in question.

"John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, The Israeli Lobby"

>The co-authors take a dive into just how much influence the Israeli (Jewish) lobby has on foreign policy in Washington. And it is a lot. And backed up by hard evidence.


https://peopleoftawhid.org/reading-list/

>A Cambridge colleague of mine gives an annual lecture on Shakespeare to trainee imams. He remarks on how immediately they relate to Shakespeare’s values. Principles of honour, fate, gender essences, the extended family, duty to parents, the power of heaven, even the reality of magic – all these make Shakespeare readily accessible to conservative Muslims, where his non-Muslim students, inhabiting a globalised and very secular culture, often strain to catch his meaning, almost as though they are trying to receive a radio signal beamed from a far distant planet."

http://www.britishfuture.org/articles/15300/

Not great writing, but amusing in that the author indulges his fantasies for fighting in writing because he knows he has no balls to actually do anything in real life. Maybe if he would submit to Allah he could have grown a backbone

Besides Homage to Catalonia, what are some good books about people joining foreign partisans for ideological reasons?

What are your favorite *nonfiction* books, /lit/?