/lit/ - Literature

>>13360578
Then you have no needs

>>12526454
what's the point in wasting time on pre-industrial political thougth (besides intellectual masturbation), I mean it's literally the wrong side of history you romantic rural retard

>>12399271
>>12399295
>>12399311
So you want to one up Solzhenitsyn with literal propaganda written by a war criminal. Imagine being actually this deluded. Literally every prisoner in an AmeriKKKan prison today has more of a right to call themselves slaves than those rehabilitated under perhaps one of the most humane reeducation processes every carried out in history.

>>12200567
>GDP

>>12200579
>try to do business when you get excluded from SWIFT due to violating Iran sanctions and lose the supply chain too.
You do realize a consortium of nations could create an alternative payments system right? America won't just be able to keep freezing the assets of whoever they don't like forever.

>>11155453
>catholicnewsagency.com
I'm not reading this shit

>>10751664
Marcuse is the worst example of the Frankfurt shit. Marcuse like many pseudo-Marxists at that point in time seriously thougth keynesian economics had overcome the basic contradictions of political economy and we were just left to face the sociological issues raised by an "affluent society". This illusion made sense in the early 60s during the up phase of the post-war business cycle and that's why it appealed to elements of the new left but is absurd today.

>>10751888
You're really stretching things to claim Marcuse somehow created the institutionally authoritarian nature of universities.
Repressive Tolerance may just be triggering your naive faith in liberalism as some sort of bulwark against illiberalism, as if the second you stop moderating anything online it's not flooded with CP and 1488 memes.

>>10450790
oc coming through
la boum grows plump in spite of his adherence to the doctrines of Marx and Engels. He casts his gaze skyward, away from the starving masses for whom he has no thought...