/lit/ - Literature

>hey what can i read to participate better on /pol/

kys pls

Fukuyama's most recent is an interesting book. In the first place he basically apologizes for Huntington and his assistance to the neo-con world view. He then repudiates his own views on "the end of history" and attacks Jared Diamond's views on geographic determinism. He then goes into case studies on the success or failure of states by looking into the decisions of the elite, the structure and strength of institutions, and the effect of culture and clientelism.

If you want economics, Devil take the Hindmost and A Random Walk Down Wallstreet are two classics that I really enjoyed.

As far as the decline of the west, stop going to /pol/

>>7544904
If you want a better view on history, go to the wikipedia page of any given subject, go to further reading, then type the same thing into oxford bibliographies and compare the results. Then get the book at alibris for 99cents or bookzz.org for free.

Read handbooks and primary texts, SEP and wiki pages.

>>7544904
>I do believe studying the basics of economy and economy history is also foundamental for my goal.
Global capitalism : its fall and rise in the twentieth century by Jeffry A. Frieden

>>7544904

It's probably best for dummy like you to start with introductory textbooks on these things. I don't think you have to be too specific. You can probably use google or just see what's available for cheap at a used book store.

>>7544925
AS I understand the only repudiation of the end of history is that Nation-States still have a (temporary) neceassary role in facilitating Neo-liberal globalisation as the universal standard but that the basic premise is still sound

>>7544918
>Dismissing the opportunity to turn a /pol/ack into a mature, learned political scholar

How embarrassing

>>7544904
https://youtu.be/lrk4oY7UxpQ?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtOfse2ncvffeelTrqvhrz8H
and
https://youtu.be/3ez10ADR_gM?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtPNZwz5_o_5uirJ8gQXnhEO

>>7544918
The Conservative Revolution
European New Right
National Bolshevism
Neo-Eurasianism
Intellectualism for the Aristocratic Cuckold

>>7544904

>I do believe studying the basics of economy and economy history is also foundamental for my goal.

I would heavily recommend "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order" by Chossudovsky. It sounds a little tin-foily from the title but its basically a critical examination of the history of WTO/IMF/World Bank policy in 2nd/3rd world and developing countries and the the ensuing effects. Most of the events in the book have to do from the late 1970's to the late 1990's.

Of course the author is biased against the mentioned financial institutions but at the same time the book reads like an academic study and is chock-full with facts that are cited using reputable sources. Ultimately, the IMF and similar groups do play an important role in international finance but at the same time the legacy of it and similar groups from the 70's to the late 90's has been pretty bad and alot of the time the countries its "structual adjustment packages" are meant to help often end up worse then before and the only ones that benefit are the foreign investors who come in and buy up assets, privatize services and raise their prices and push out domestic producers of various products with foreign imports. Basically, while these international financial groups do sometimes help countries with different things a lot of their stated intents and rhetoric conceals the fact that they are essentially using economic warfare to enable western megabanks and megainvestors to come in a make a bunch of money off countries services and resources without these countries ever seeing any benefit from it and often ending up alot worse.

Michel Chossudovsky's valuable study addresses some of the most important issues of the current era. -- Noam Chomsky

>>7544904

>I do believe studying the basics of economy and economy history is also foundamental for my goal.

I would heavily recommend "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order" by Chossudovsky. It sounds a little tin-foily from the title but its basically a critical examination of the history of WTO/IMF/World Bank policy in 2nd/3rd world and developing countries and the the ensuing effects. Most of the events in the book have to do from the late 1970's to the late 1990's.

Of course the author is biased against the mentioned financial institutions but at the same time the book reads like an academic study and is chock-full with facts that are cited using reputable sources. Ultimately, the IMF and similar groups do play an important role in international finance but at the same time the legacy of it and similar groups from the 70's to the late 90's has been pretty bad and alot of the time the countries its "structual adjustment packages" are meant to help often end up worse then before and the only ones that benefit are the foreign investors who come in and buy up assets, privatize services and raise their prices and push out domestic producers of various products with foreign imports. Basically, while these international financial groups do sometimes help countries with different things a lot of their stated intents and rhetoric conceals the fact that they are essentially using economic warfare to enable western megabanks and megainvestors to come in a make a bunch of money off countries services and resources without these countries ever seeing any benefit from it and often ending up alot worse.

Michel Chossudovsky's valuable study addresses some of the most important issues of the current era. -- Noam Chomsky

>>7545712
While he definitely still sees the Scandinavian social democracy as an ideal, he fully admits that "getting to denmark" has 1. a lot of road bumps along the way, 2. that no one knows quite how to get there and that 3. all institutions decay due to decision making by individuals.

So there is no "end of history", merely the rise and fall of defining instiutions within nation states (or supra-national entities like the EU and lol the UN)