/lit/ - Literature

>It would be inconceivable that any reader, except those most naive and destitute of well founded sense and reason, would hesitate to immediately agree with the following proposition

>Will you tourists fuck off? Philosophy is powerlifting of the mind and language, it's not some pop shit that even uneducated housewives could parse out a proper understanding of. It requires serious rigor and discipline to penetrate into and acquire even a superficial understanding of, it is not something achieved by passively sitting around and listening to as background noise. You are treating it like fast food in the mere positing of a question like this. Stop posting any time.

>>9028179
Spotted the reactionary. Daily reminder that Stalin is among the most /lit/ men to lead a nation and his poems written in his mother tongue are still taught in Georgian schools independently of his fame as le famous Soviet leader man.

In fact he tried to hide the fact that he was a poet in his youth and blocked publication of a collection of his poems, censoring his own work as not fit for public consumption. The mark of a true patrician is one recognizes that one's own work, no matter what sentimental value one may place on it, is not worthy of study. In fact the entire cult of personality was something which he disliked at a fundamental level. He allowed it to be developed because he felt it was important for the war effort.

He would invite scholars of Georgian literature to his dacha to debate interpretations of epic poems. He didn't even gulag them for disagreeing. He read all of the Russian canonical greats and also closely studied Shakespeare and Byron. For philosophy, he had a very solid understanding of Marx, regardless of what reactionary prattle some speak of him with, and studied Nietzsche as well.

Stalin was leagues more intelligent and better read than any other world leader around him. For all of his personal flaws, he was a better leader and probably a better man than anyone living today.

>educated in poetry and literature seminary school, learned Goethe and Shakespeare in translation, could recite Whitman by heart
>was a published poet and author before joining the Bolsheviks
>debated the finer points of Georgian literature and poetry with university professors for fun, even in his later years
>his poems continue to be taught in Georgian schools and many of them are considered minor classics, independently of his name
>used his network of admirers built by his poetry at least once to gain information for a bank robbery
>could read over 500 pages per day
>had a library of over 10,000 books
>wrote lengthy political philosophy tracts
>well versed in Plato, censored the media in accordance with many of Plato's principles in order to shape a new kind of man
>also an accomplished billiards player

Was there ever a more literary patrician world leader in history?

I'm looking for a good book by/about Joseph Stalin, but not just a boring history textbook telling me when he was born, what date he did this, etc.

Is there anything that can give me new, interesting information I might not otherwise discover?

I have a pseudo-intellectual bf. He's like basically an entry level Nietszche/Marxist pleb, convinced on the moral and financial decline of capitalism. He can't actually debate the topic he just repeats two or three phrases verbatim and talks about the return of the workers struggle or something. I only stay with him because he has gorgeous brown hair and a huge dick, and I hate being single desu. Too many creeps like try to talk to you like anything they say isn't an obviously transparent attempt at getting sex. Yeah, yeah I'm sure you also love Voltaire and Diederot and you didn't take a rapey look inside my book bag, tell me what do you think of post-modern deconstruction-ism do you have any favourite artists? Oh you've heard of Banksy, yeah he's like really something...


Honestly it's easier to just dress like a lesbian and tie my hair back than to deal with these scummy pasty wierdos who haven't seen a pussy since they evacuated one.

>>6772270
>implying
No wonder why he won the war.

>>6358804

That quote was taken out of context. Sort of like how reformists like taking Marx's quote, "If you're not a Marxist, than neither am I" out of context. (Which was adressed to Lassalle, who's politics, to compare to contemporary politics, were similar to Richard Wolff's) Looking at this quote without looking at the context is infantile.

A problem among anti-Leninists is that in their anti-Leninism, they associate things about Lenin's philososphy that was never there to begin with (or imposed upon him by his "Leninist" successors), and side with Lenin's opponents, the Mensheviks, and then impose contemporary criticism of Leninism upon the Mensheviks (and others) where there were none.

The pamphlet where that quote came from, The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It, was the follow up from to another quote that said that nationalization was just the germ to socialism, and the pamphlet itself was designed to be read by workers, and not intellectuals, so expect there to be simplifications. What Lenin was argueing against where those in charge of the Provisional Government who adamantly refused to nationalize industry, to deal with to leave the war, where acting bureacratically, being inable to pass reforms, and being inable actually to deal with the problems that faced them right in front of them.

I recommend actually reading what Lenin wrote, especially the pamphlet you should really be going to for Lenin's perspective on the state, State and Revolution. In it, Lenin actually sides with the Left-Communists against Kautsky (while admitting that he disagreed with much of everything else) in regards to the state.

Kautsky believed that what seperated Marxism from Anarchism is that the Marxists are willing to take over the state. Lenin disagreed. The basis of the proletarian revolution is the smashing of the bourgeois state apparatus, and its replacement by armed workers organized in fluid democratic councils.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/ichtci/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch06.htm

>>6046639

>you will never be this handsome

Why did so many good authors drink excessively? Does alcohol increase creativity, allowing for literary inhibitions to be temporarily stifled and free thought to flow?

What's your favorite hard liquor, and does it help you write, study, read, or do something literature related?

I don't know if Stalin drank, nor do I consider him to be a good writer, but I liked the pic.

If you don't think Young Stalin was sexy as shit, I don't know what is wrong you

I've become paranoid about comma splicing dragging down the quality of my posting; Do I need a style guide (if so; Which one?) or total re-education (and is this sentence correct)?

What are the criteria for thread deletion?

I've been lurking the archive recently and I've noticed that a lot of threads get deleted, they're not obviou troll threads, or shitposts, they're at least tangentially realted to literature and often seem to have generated somewhat interesting discussion, so why are they being purged?

He wrote poems in his youth so it counts.