/lit/ - Literature

What are some good books to read after the COTAM? I was going to check out iGen but it seems that the author only bitches about them kids on the phone. Is Bowling Alone a good read?

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>“One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.”

Basically, socialism attracts weirdos who attach their identity to something, be it their gender, their race, hatred for the upper class, etc.

Coddling of the American mind (or Boys Adrift/Girls on the Edge), can give you a background on how modern culture is raising kids to be spoiled and mentally broken. As a result a large mass are unable to think critically and attach themselves to an ideaology like socialism (Cynical Theories can give more detail on whose steering this in colleges). The corporations and billionaires are filling their companies with college grads bathed in this ideology, and Bernie Sanders popularity scared the piss out of them, so they are trying to pay off the young people driving the woke movement and adopting its symbols, and pushing racial and gender ideology in hopes of pitting the working class against each other so they can't unite and have a socialist or communist revolution.

Anyone read this? Who's in university today and what's your experience like?

I'm somewhere between a liberal and a social democrat. As your image alludes to, this isn't anything new, so it's not the modern left, it's the authoritarian left. And it's actually creating an important division within the left, as well as the right to some extent.

Left-liberalism and social democracy both draw from two different philosophical frameworks: liberalism and conflict theory. Liberalism asserts universal rights and values - that everyone is entitled to be free, to live, and to do what they want so long as their actions do not infringe on the rights of others. Conflict theory, on the other hand, asserts a system where there's competition between the exploiters and the exploited, arguing that those without power must seize it, in order for there to be a just system. In a good, social democratic system, these frameworks coexist, but liberalism is the more important of the two.

We're in a time when conflict theory and liberalism are coming into conflict, which is why you see Maoist-minded people attacking liberalism. On the left, even some libertarian Marxist types, from Cornel West to Noam Chomsky to Michael Brooks, are warning against creeping illiberal authoritarianism on both the left and right. On the other hand, you're getting angry reactionaries denouncing them for it.

>Maoist-minded people attacking liberalism.
To give you an idea of what I'm referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cMYfxOFBBM

I'm somewhere between a liberal and a social democrat. As your image alludes to, this isn't anything new, so it's not the modern left, it's the authoritarian left. And it's actually creating an important division within the left, as well as the right to some extent.

Left-liberalism and social democracy both draw from two different philosophical frameworks: liberalism and conflict theory. Liberalism asserts universal rights and values - that everyone is entitled to be free, to live, and to do what they want so long as their actions do not infringe on the rights of others. Conflict theory, on the other hand, asserts a system where there's competition between the exploiters and the exploited, arguing that those without power must seize it, in order for there to be a just system. In a good, social democratic system, these frameworks coexist, but liberalism is the more important of the two.

We're in a time when conflict theory and liberalism are coming into conflict, which is why you see Maoist-minded people attacking liberalism. On the left, even some libertarian Marxist types, from Cornel West to Noam Chomsky to Michael Brooks, are warning against creeping illiberal authoritarianism on both the left and right. On the other hand, you're getting angry reactionaries denouncing them for it.