/lit/ - Literature

>>20332896
>Atlas Shrugged
will never read it though

>>12726309
Very well Doctor, then what is to be done, so to speak?

>>12290508
so? he was a dumbass as a libertarian and his alt right shift just shows he has no values or convictions held so strongly that money can't sway them and he is precisely the kind of person that he claims to be against, and always has been.

>>12290294
I remember him complaining, years ago when he was still a libertarian, that philosophy/the establishment school is SO TOTALLY UNFAIR because they don't give you the benefit of the doubt when you're "building something new" and he never once realized that nothing he was doing was new at all. He's a lazy scholar, an extremely lazy one. I remember when that book came out a libertarian reviewer was trying to be nice about calling his book shit and he said that Molyneaux seemed to have a "facile intellect", ie, he's instinctively clever and as such never took the time to do the hard work of developing a deep understanding of other thinkers through engaging with primary sources and that really fucking set him off because he wants everyone to think the exact opposite, that his thought is founded on very rigorous study and scientific logic rather than the half assed musings of someone with the mental and emotional maturity of a teenager (ie the typical adult libertarian).

>>11993112
Reality is right-wing.

>A member of the human race who is completely incapable of understanding the higher productivity of labor performed under a division of labor based on private property is not properly speaking a person, but falls instead in the same moral category as an animal -- of either the harmless sort (to be domesticated and employed as a producer or consumer good, or to be enjoyed as a "free good") or the wild and dangerous one (to be fought as a pest)
Are you an animal or a person?

>>11805972
>18
>15ish
>Confederacy of Dunces, Prometheus Rising
>Submission

Started reading Democracy: The God That Failed and have actually been pleasantly surprised. Yeah, he does the economics-as-ideology shit with muh rational acting monarch but he brings up a lot of interesting points as to how democracy erodes class consciousness. Of all of the combinations of two words I did not expect to see in an anarcho capitalist's book that's probably the biggest one.

Anyone else read his work seriously and not just his memes?

>>10905798
Because Sowell's writings are mostly introductory in nature and targeted at the common man who is trying to educate himself out of left wing indoctrination. It's a good strategy for promoting one's ideas from a political perspective but not a whole lot in his corpus is really interesting from the perspective of someone who is already educated and aware of the need to remove all those who support socialism and non-family oriented lifestyles from society by coercive force if necessary.

Based Hoppe. I got through Democracy The God That Failed two weeks ago and all I can say is wow... Reading that book was like uncovering THE truth about what must be done.