/lit/ - Literature

>>16629109
I longer believe that most Marxists on this site have actually read all of Das Kapital. I thought it was around the length of the Communist Manifesto, not that tome.

Lmao you guys got a funny Ass language

>>16629116
No Longer

>>16629116
>he thought Marx's life work was short
He didn't smoke all those cigars in his NEET apartment for something the length of the communist manifesto.

>>16629109
i'm reading
>crime and punishment
>land of destiny: a history of vancouver real estate
and a book about tree species

>>16629109
Do Czechs known German?

>>16629116
I'm not a Marxist quite opposite actually. I believe you should not constrain yourself by reading only books that share your political/religional standpoint.

>>16629136
It's not uncommon.

>>16629136
Some of those who live by the German boarder but otherwise you need to learn it like everybody else
>>16629131
>>16629131
>>land of destiny: a history of vancouver real estate
Is it for work purposes or a hobby?

>>16629136
Are you a retard?

>>16629109
I am reading the Poems of Alexander Montgomery.
A diverse renaissance poet who was Catholic after the Protestant Revolution in Scotland and was so loved by the King that he was allowed to be buried in a now Protestant church yard.
His writings reflect the anglicisation in spelling but they are still clearly Scottish in character.

>>16629137
Okay but you could at least read things that are either A) fun to read or B) relevant
marx is neither. Ask a marxist what a cashier produces some time and see how many mental flips they have to do to answer you

>>16629109
Do even slavs accept being under house arrest because of the flu? Weren't you supposed to be based?

>>16629201
I chuckled. But I don't agree about its irrelevance. Most of these "socialists" did not read it. For me this is knowledge which can help me in debating them (however pointless it might me).

>>16629213
isnt the flu. government gets paid millions. think the prime minister of india got 1 billion for it.

>>16629213
Don't you get tired of LARPing

>>16629213
I already had it. It was less then the flu. Although I am young and healthy. I would be at home either way. We have online classis and I'm not that social.

I'm reading this, it's extremely cozy. Both volumes together are almost 3000 pages in lengeth.

A few weeks ago I made a thread asking for American history recommendations, particularly early American history and no one mentioned this. Shame on them. As always I can only rely on myself to find the good stuff.

>>16629109
holy shit the spine on that bitch is going to get so fucked up

>>16629201
A service of taking money for products? Wasn't that hard.

>>16629145
i just want to know why it's so fucking expensive to live here, and it's interesting learning the history of this crooked little city

>>16629145
Einmal Gulasch mit Knödel und ein Helles bitte, mein slavischer Sklave.

>>16629109
Infinite Jest

>>16629395
Read it about a year ago. Difficult for non-native speaker but worth.

You might enjoy this movie about D.F.Wallece, very comfy

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3416744/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_9

Had to stop reading novels as of this week. I need to churn out a PhD proposal by year's end and I already have over a dozen novels I'm keen to analyze. Sadly I am now obliged to dive into secondary literature which is much less fun.

>>16629109
Aj houp jů endžoj jour Karlík Marxů anon. Idz šit, bat jů ken baš somvan tu ded vit suč thik buk. Start vit Prymula. Stej helty.

>>16629231
Yeah the WHO is bribing politicians to keep pretending that the end of the world is upon us. Lukashenko refused the money and they immediately staged a coup.

OP you should go out and protest instead of reading books.

>>16629201
the cashier produced spare time for the owner since he doesn't have to stand there and do it himself

>>16629259
i loved these, great choice. also check out "the california and oregon trail", it's even cozier

zero k

>>16629137
Agreed, but if a book is completely opposed to my world view, I can't get through it. I stopped reading Age of Anger after the first chapter because it became clear it was only talking about right wing anger and how individualism is at fault. However, I thoroughly enjoyed a book on Bataille which shares some of the same ideas.

>>16629109
That cover is so neat

>>16629259
I recommend Bradbury's Travels: in the Interior of America

>country is about to get locked down
>work in a hospital
I too want a free vacation to have time for reading.

>>16629109
>15k new daily cases causes a major lockdown
Your government is cucked or your people refuse to wear masks and social distance.

>>16630524
Thank you for your service

>>16629256
>I already had it
Try jogging and tell me how your lungs are mate.

>>16629116

>>16630563
It's relevant to the size of the population, my dude. Pretty sure they are a small country.

>>16629201
>fun to read
Marx is quite dry but he has his fun moments, lots of cheecky jokes in Capital also lots of references if you have the eye to spot them. Also he invokes a lot of Gothic imagery.
>relevant
How is Marx not relevant you moron? He is the most influential philosopher of the last 200 years. Capitalism is our socioeconomic system and Marx is the number 1 when it comes to a thorough critique of it. You're absolutely a drooling mouthbreathing zombie if you somehow think Marx isn't relevant anymore.

>>16630630
>How is Marx not relevant you moron? He is the most influential philosopher of the last 200 years
kek

>>16630630
>He is the most influential philosopher of the last 200 years.
Yes and look where the last 200 years have taken us

>>16630689
That his thought has been a disaster to the human race doesn't make him irrelevant though, quite the opposite

>>1663063
China has surpassed the US and is now the number 1 economic power in the world. Marx is studied all over china by its people and political leaders. Not only that Marx his influence has been prominent among pretty much any serious philosopher that came after him.

>>16630689
>Yes and look where the last 200 years have taken us
Yeah, global capitalism has hollowed our culture our humanity, has promoted massive inequality, we live with our subconscious thought that we're driving straight into ecological disaster. Marxists warning us for years, longing for radical change, but we ignored them, supressed them.

I am reading the Summa Theologica, its such a cornerstone of scholastics and medieval thought that I've always felt like I had to read it to at least have a good background on it but the few times I tried I found it dry and a dogmatic retelling of Aristotle... but this time around it's clicking right for some reason and I'm having a comfy time with it. I think I needed some maturing time and more patience.

>>16630721
And during that time, how many Marxist governments went down in flames?

>>16629109
why don't you guys like vowels?

>>16629116
That is volume 1 & 2. 1 is the only one marx actually finished though.

>>16629259
Read Thwaites Jesuit Record and allied documents for the absolute most comfy read of your life bro

>>16629109
>Capital
Why wouldnt you as a czech learn to read german. You can hate germans as much as you want but the german language was so influential for the czech region (people) that separating yourself from it is simply cutting off your own nose.
Your biggest university even still has courses in German.

>The most famous czech (writer) spoke german
>>16629391
>ein Helles
If you are in bohemia then at least get a Pilsner not a helles

>>16629109
I'm literally taking a shit and phoneposting.

I read Faulkner's "A Fable" and I liked that quite a bit. Now I'm reading Kafka's stories and dany anything Tolstoy related.

>>16629259
A good friend of mine received this as a gift from a retired historian who shopped at a store we worked at and would stick around and talk to us. Very based.

>>16630524
I'm clapping for you!

>>16629109
Czechbro have you read Svejk? I read that last month and I'm going to read War with the Newts soon. Please recommend some other essential Czech literature and give us your thoughts on Svejk

>>16630834
You haven't read jack shit, have you?

>>16629638
I'll violate the lockdown to go bash your head in where do you live?

>>16629152
you know youre a nerd right

>>16630636
sadly he is, also probably indirectly has one of the highest body counts too.

>>16631904
I'm thinking Adam Smith beats him

No longer shall they laugh.

>>16630563
The country has like 10mil people

>>16631526

I'm not a Czech anon but I've enjoyed Valerie and her Week of Wonders it's a bizarre Alice in Wonderland/Dracula type sort of crossover but a really cool surrealist story. You're going to like War with the Newts.

>>16629213
>>16629755
This

>>16630758
Based

>>16630721
You will not defy capitalism with Marx, turbotard

>>16631526
I've liked everything I've read by Hrabal.
Much of his work is free to (legally) download at mlp.cz too.
And Kundera is good obviously.

>>16630834
none

>>16629201
Based American. Simultaneously believing that Marxism is the biggest threat of the 20th (and 21st?) century, and also believing that he's irrelevant and nobody should bother reading him. Imagine swallowing propaganda this thoroughly.

>>16630721
>China has surpassed the US and is now the number 1 economic power in the world. Marx is studied all over china by its people and political leaders.
And yet nothing marx said is practised by China? Where is the abolition of private property marxists advocated for?

>>16630758
Based, but honestly I think the Summa is more of a reference book. I don't think it was ever intended to be read cover to cover, unless you're in seminary

>>16632687
One book you would recommend from Hrabal and Kundera?

>>16632818
>Hrabal
All are good. I'd say Ostře sledované vlaky is a good start.
>Kundera
Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí

>>16632765
Marxism, as described by Marx, is irrelevant. You are conflating Neoliberal Imperialism, which is entirely rooted in ruthless capitalism, with Marxism, due to the misnomer of cultural Marxism. The economic theories of Marx are dead. What we have left is hollow platitudes of equal slavery to the elite. But this time the elite aren't pretending they're equal too.

>>16630721
China has both an authoritarian govt. and one that is less restricted than the US'; but, also, there has been an explosion in millionaires in China and there is still massive poverty.

I doubt Marx would look at China with gleaming eyes that you think is the case.

>not realizing that the horrifying world in which we live is not capitalist but already communist
It is beyond how /lit/ keeps being this retarded after so many years

>not realizing that the horrifying world in which we live is not capitalist but already communist
It is beyond me how /lit/ keeps being this retarded after so many years

>>16632951
Thanks I will check these out

>The thin pale wrists of a Communist
Many such cases