/lit/ - Literature

>>4814759
There aren't really all that many "good" arguments against socialism in the sense of saying why it's bad/wrong. There are, however, reasons for why it cannot realistically work: these factors typically revolve around greed.

>>4601474
Hmmm, not OP, but I'm not entirely sure about that one, m8. 4chan, as a whole, is extremely right (in my opinion, obviously I don't actually know) but /lit/ is definitely more left for social questions, and right leaning for economic issues.

>>4579830
Not really extremist, but Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto.

If you want extremist, take a look at Atlas Shrugged or the Turner Diaries (I think that's what this anon was talking about >>4579836, but I could be wrong)

OK, Ramblers, Let's get Rambling!

Here are some informations concerning our on-line seminar:

When?
Sunday, 13th October.
2:30 PM (EST)/ 6:30 PM GMT/ 20:30 CEST
Where?
IRC Channel: #capital bougie (pass)
What?
We will be discussing first chapter of Karl Marx's Capital.
You can get it from here: http://f4uum9.1fichier.com/en/
Should you need any more information, consult our previous 4chan thread: http://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/thread/S4158028

See you soon, comrades!

Something is rotten in the state of denmark. There’s no doubt about it. Since at least 2008 there’s consensus that we (consumers/citizens) are in deep trouble. However, no one seems to know what to think about our current sitiuation, not to mention what to do about it, how to cope with it. It appears that the only reasonable action to be undertaken is ‘the return to basics’. To quote Mark Fisher: Against the postmodernist suspicion of grand narratives, we need to reassert that, far from being isolated, contingent problems, these are all the effects of a single systemic cause: Capital. We need to begin, as if for the first time, to develop strategies against a Capital which presents itself as ontologically, as well as geographically, ubiquitous.
So, what I propose to you is a online seminar on Marx’s chef-d'œuvre - Das Kapital.
We could meet every two weeks and discuss one (or more) chapter from it. We could supplement our reading and discusions with David Harvey’s online lectures, his introductory book „A Companion to Marx's Capital” and possibly conclude our seminar with „The Limits to Capital”.
We would proceed by implementing Rancierian (Jacotonian) method: Knowing is half the battle...the other half is Ignorance.
PS
I can provide you with all the books.