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The /lit/ reactionary conservative discord
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After New Year we plan to go through Shakespeare's Henriad and Richard Weaver's "Ideas Have Consequences"


>where to start
This article a conservative perspective on how Marx was right, and how he was wrong
If you want a brief introduction to the perspective of conservatism, I suggest this article: https://traditionalbritain.org/blog/marx-contra-marx-conservative-interpretation-communist-manifesto/

Bookwise, where to start? Start with "Edmund Burke: The First Conservative". Excellent introduction to conservatism, and explains why Burke was conservative as opposed to just an antirevolutionary liberal.

After that, if you are of a democratic persuasion (I am not), I suggest The Natural Family: A Manifesto. Not the online pamphlet, but the 200 page book.

Other titles you should read to start with (order is unimportant)

"After Liberalism", by Paul Gottfried
"A Disquisition on Government"
"The Concept of the Political"
"The Culture of Narcissism"
"On the Generative Principles of Political Constitutions" (it is very short and even atheists will appreciate it)

Forgot: link to conservative /lit/ discord if you like
https://discord.gg/c5Vga4E

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Conservativism is a school of political thought starting with Edmund Burke, Joseph de Maistre and Louis de Bonald. Notable adherents include Juan Donoso Cortes, Carl Schmitt, John Calhoun and Paul Gottfried. It stresses an alternative to liberal theory of society, placing violence, implicit (threat) or explicit as it's basis, rather than the social contract. It also tends to hold an eternalist conception of time, as opposed to the philosophical presentism of liberalism. There is a lot more, but those are some basics