/lit/ - Literature

I have been trying to get into reading and started with The Prince. It was very nice and I want more political works like it, but I have decided to put off Discourses for now. I am feeling like it’s a toss-up between Social Contract and Capital. Which one should I go first? Are there any more that I should consider?

To quote Bireley (1990:14):

...there were in circulation approximately fifteen editions of the Prince and nineteen of the Discourses and French translations of each before they were placed on the Index [Librorum Prohibitorum] of Paul IV in 1559, a measure which nearly stopped publication in Catholic areas except in France. Three principal writers took the field against Machiavelli between the publication of his works and their condemnation in 1559 and again by the Tridentine Index in 1564. These were the English cardinal Reginald Pole and the Portuguese bishop Jerónimo Osório, both of whom lived for many years in Italy, and the Italian humanist and later bishop, Ambrogio Caterino Politi.

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>>16131354
He IS the prince

>>16035654
some people might not call this a history book but its a must read for understanding history modern or otherwise

>>15726724
Unironically this

Times you acted like The Prince

>Go to /his/
>Post impassioned defence of white people and note that white people have no choice but to conceive of themselves as white in a racialised era
>Immediately post a thread posing as a Turk mocking white people for not being the first to make a manned rocket flight

The takeaway from The Prince:
>help others only if your help makes them depended on you, so you might diplo-annex them later
>if you help them much, you are wasting your resources, as your ally will betray you when they are strong enough