/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11141375]

I love a good manifesto. I enjoy it when a intelligent person lucidly expounds on a subject in an assertive and declarative manner, usually with some kind of agenda attached to it , and even if I disagree with the thesis.

What are some good manifestos, besides the obvious ones like the Unabomber, communist, etc.

[Anonymous No.11141390]

>>11141375
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOYpvM5L4fs
Unironically.

[Anonymous No.11141392]

>>11141375

[Anonymous No.11141393]

>>11141375
It's not quite as RATIONAL and anchored in REALITY as anything written by a man, but I enjoyed the intense hatred in Valerie Solanas' SCUM manifesto.

[Anonymous No.11141395]

Futurist, Surrealist and Vorticist manifestos

[Anonymous No.11141413]

>>11141393
What would valerie do to my measly 4" cock and tiny prune balls

[Anonymous No.11141501]

>>11141390
I knew someone would post Elliot Rodger. He actually wrote a screed (MY TWISTED WORLD), but it doesn't pass my high standards for a manifesto.

It holds minor interest as a psychosocial artifact, but really it's just the bitchings of an entitled, snot nosed upperclass brat about how he can't get laid.

Compare an emblamatic passage:

>Soon enough, the movie theaters would turn from a place of joy to a place of dread. Once puberty arrives, I would start getting jealous of all the young couples or groups of boys and girls who go to the movies together.

With a typical Unabomber passage:

>Today people live more by virtue of what the system does FOR them or TO them than by virtue of what they do for themselves. And what they do for themselves is done more and more along channels laid down by the system. Opportunities tend to be those that the system provides, the opportunities must be exploited in accord with rules and regulations [13], and techniques prescribed by experts must be followed if there is to be a chance of success.

It's like night and day.

[Anonymous No.11141507]

The Futurists wrote tons of them, and they're generally pretty entertaining.

[Anonymous No.11141532]

>>11141501
When you really look into though his family fucked him up. I don't put much of it on Elliot himself.

[Anonymous No.11141581]

>>11141375

Some interesting manifesto-type things. Most of these are specifically "literary manifestos", which might not be quite what you're after. Never mind!

>The Declaration of Independence
Obviously.

>The ABC of Reading - Ezra Pound
OK, so this isn't "supposed to be" a manifesto. But Pound is so belligerent it pretty much comes across as a personal statement:
"Here's what good writing should do; here's the only people who have done it. Here's what you have to read."

>On Moral Fiction - John Gardner
Similar to the above, but a bit more measured, so this is more like an actual book. It still had enough "manifesto"-type qualities to incite frenzied rage from the New York Times crowd. (Gardner said such heinous things as "good art should ennoble us and lead society forward". No wonder they hated him.)

>Yukio Mishima
is an obvious choice. There's the statement he read from the balcony, of course, but Sun and Steel is effectively a manifesto.

>Preface to Lyrical Ballads - Wordsworth and Coleridge
More literary stuff. Saying basically Enlightenment literature was way too buttoned-up and artificial and it was time to get back to some proper POETRY. (See also Shelley's Defence of Poetry from the same era.)

>Call to Aryan Warriors speech - Robert Jay Mathews
1488. I'll be told to go back to /pol/, but it's there, it exists. It's not very long. He believed it enough to die for it.

[Anonymous No.11141601]

>>11141413
>ywn get pegged raw by mistress Valerie

Is there any point in going on?

[Anonymous No.11141603]

Patrician thread so far.

Mitchell Heisman's suicide note manifesto. Honestly fascinating.

[Anonymous No.11141610]

>>11141532
It's a mildly interesting read because it shows the lifetime progression of a relatively normal, if shy and anxious kid, into a misogynistic killer. It just doesn't convey any ideas,besides his warped, moody attitudes about women and sex that appeal to a particular dysfunction in a strain of alienated young men rather than to reason or logic.

[Anonymous No.11141675]

Another good (sort of) literary manifesto is:

>A Mathematician's Apology (Hardy)
He basically talks about pure mathematics and how, if it has no practical application, it can be justified. (The amusing part is that Hardy worked in number theory which has massive application nowadays in encryption.) Anyway, the book is short and very readable and worth looking at just on general principles.

[Anonymous No.11141695]

Is Gadaffi's green book worth reading?

[Anonymous No.11141867]

>>11141695

I never knew he wrote one. Was it green after the Libyan flag? We're running out of colours. Anyone who's thinking of writing a book of wise sayings should bag "The White Book" fast, otherwise they'll be like Steve Buscemi in R.D.: "It's all right for you, you have a cool-sounding name!"

[Anonymous No.11141885]

>>11141601
It's getting harder and harder to find reasons to.

[Anonymous No.11141891]

>>11141695

I got this and I've thumbed through it, will read sometime soon. It's a very simple, short read by a guy who knows his local desert tribal culture, and his proposal for modern Libyan society with socialist characteristics.

The layout of the book is very similar to Mao's little red book, and this is probably on purpose, with each author addressing all areas of national culture and life over a few dozen chapters. Since you opened the door, I'll post a very amusing and /pol/-tier (read: correct) passage:

"Black people are now in a very backward social situation, but such backwardness works to bring about their numerical superiority because their low standard of living has shielded them from methods of birth control and family planning. Also, their old social traditions place no limit on marriages, leading to their accelerated growth. The population of other races has decreased because of birth control, restrictions on marriage, and constant occupation in work, unlike the Blacks, who tend to be less obsessive about work in a climate which is continuously hot."

Imagine being a cheeky history professor and inserting this book as required reading for a history of 20th century socialism in today's campus, and the children learning that "one of their own" (a non-white, non-Christian, America hating leftist) wrote these taboo things. It would be funny to observe how they parse the information. OTOH Gadhafi was clearly referring to black Africans on his own continent, but it's interesting that the observation breaks down to an extent when you try to port it to black Americans (black women get lots of abortions).

[Anonymous No.11142267]

[Anonymous No.11142274]

>>11142267
/r9k/ - The Book
It's good though, I was surprised to see it discussed here as the author seems to have virtually no online presence last I checked

[Anonymous No.11142282]

>>11141375
>https://www.societyforasianart.org/sites/default/files/manifesto_futurista.pdf
1. We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.
2. The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, audacity and
revolt.
3. Literature has up to now magnified pensive immobility, ecstasy and
slumber. We want to exalt movements of aggression, feverish
sleeplessness, the double march, the perilous leap, the slap and the blow
with the fist.
4. We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new
beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned
with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath ... a roaring motor car
which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory
of Samothrace.
5. We want to sing the man at the wheel, the ideal axis of which crosses
the earth, itself hurled along its orbit.
6. The poet must spend himself with warmth, glamour and prodigality to
increase the enthusiastic fervor of the primordial elements.
7. Beauty exists only in struggle. There is no masterpiece that has not an
aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault on the forces of the
unknown, to force them to bow before man.
8. We are on the extreme promontory of the centuries! What is the use of
looking behind at the moment when we must open the mysterious shutters
of the impossible? Time and Space died yesterday. We are already living in
the absolute, since we have already created eternal, omnipresent speed.
9. We want to glorify war - the only cure for the world - militarism,
patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful ideas
which kill, and contempt for woman.
10. We want to demolish museums and libraries, fight morality, feminism
and all opportunist and utilitarian cowardice.
11. We will sing of the great crowds agitated by work, pleasure and revolt;
the multi-colored and polyphonic surf of revolutions in modern capitals: the
nocturnal vibration of the arsenals and the workshops beneath their violent
electric moons: the gluttonous railway stations devouring smoking
serpents; factories suspended from the clouds by the thread of their
smoke; bridges with the leap of gymnasts flung across the diabolic cutlery
of sunny rivers: adventurous steamers sniffing the horizon; great-breasted
locomotives, puffing on the rails like enormous steel horses with long tubes
for bridle, and the gliding flight of aeroplanes whose propeller sounds like
the flapping of a flag and the applause of enthusiastic crowds.

[Anonymous No.11142311]

>>11141891
Yeah I remember being in my redpill identity politics phase too

[Anonymous No.11142312]

>>11142274
Section 3 did venture into r9k territory but the overarching ideas in that section raise it above that.

[Anonymous No.11142324]

Imperium by Francis Parker Yockey

[Anonymous No.11142340]

>>11141375
Bin Laden's letter to America

[Anonymous No.11142364]

Does Emma Goldman have some sort of manifesto?

[Anonymous No.11142391]

>>11141601
>getting pegged by Valerie Solanas
>not brutally ass fucking her until her pathalogical animus lies broken and dead before you leaving her a perfectly feminine creature of restored beauty and cuteness
why?

[Anonymous No.11142429]

my diary desu

[Anonymous No.11142459]

>>11142391

Do you think violent anal rape will work with all militant feminists, or do you judge these things on a case-by-case basis?

[Anonymous No.11144069]

>>11141375
Go to bed Ted.

[Anonymous No.11144099]

>>11142282
>4. We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new
>beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned
>with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath ... a roaring motor car
>which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory
>of Samothrace.

[Anonymous No.11144113]

>>11142282
he said intelligent

[Anonymous No.11144115]

All of Nietzsche.

[Anonymous No.11144116]

>>11144113
it's a fundamental part of every manifesto to be somehow edgy and naive though

[Anonymous No.11144119]

>>11142282
>contempt for woman
lol this was translated by some retarded incel

[Anonymous No.11144123]

>>11144099
Now that's podracing

[Anonymous No.11144482]

The Founding Doctrine of Fascism is a top notch Manifesto, esp. the parts that Gentile wrote.

> Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal, will of man as a historic entity

There's a lot of interesting parallels between fascist thought and anarchist thought. A lot more of overlapping between the two than most people would admit. Another interesting manifesto, "The Coming Insurrection" by the Invisible Committee, reminded me a lot of some of the points brought up in DoF.

>“I AM WHAT I AM.” My body belongs to me. I am me, you are you, and something’s wrong. Mass personalization. Individualization of all conditions — life, work and misery. Diffuse schizophrenia. Rampant depression. Atomization into fine paranoiac particles. Hysterization of contact. The more I want to be me, the more I feel an emptiness. The more I express myself, the more I am drained. The more I run after myself, the more tired I get. We cling to our self like a coveted job title. We’ve become our own representatives in a strange commerce, guarantors of a personalization that feels, in the end, a lot more like an amputation. We insure our selves to the point of bankruptcy, with a more or less disguised clumsiness.

Good thread btw.

>>11144119
9. Noi vogliamo glorificare la guerra - sola igiene del mondo - il militarismo, il patriottismo, il gesto distruttore dei libertari, le belle idee per cui si muore e il disprezzo della donna.

Not fluent in Italian, but "il disprezzo della donna" translates more to "the contempt of women", or maybe "women's contempt", correct? If so that's pretty funny.

[Anonymous No.11144690]

>>11141581
John Gardner is one of my favorite authors who wrote about writing. He’s more traditional, he believes writing should aspire to something, he’s a craftsman, and he’s very influenced by the canon before postmodernism.

[Anonymous No.11145674]

>>11142459
>Do you think violent anal rape will work
It worked with me

[Anonymous No.11145684]

>>11145674

[Anonymous No.11145686]

>>11141375
Ever noticed that Kaczynski looks like the Zodiac killer?

[Anonymous No.11147136]

Intelligent, Goebells small little books t bh.
as others have said the Futurists.
most declarations of independence. I quite liked William B. Ides declaration for California from Mexico

[Anonymous No.11147400]

>>11142267
Where would I actually get it though?

Unless I wanted to buy it on amazon...

[Anonymous No.11147474]

>>11144119
>>11144482
It really just says "contempt for women" in the Italian original, which is somewhat understandable in the light of the old virility/femininity dichotomy that was still just accepted at the time.

[Anonymous No.11147492]

If you know French: Le "Volksfuhrer" Leon Degrelle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20tm-U2AYV0&list=PLDEFA72EC31A648D8

short vid w/ english CC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUki2-kzJO0

[Anonymous No.11147691]

>>11141603
this is a good one. he's off the mark many places (for example, he predicted the it would be censored but it is still commonly available) but its a sprawling work and still an interesting perspective even when he isnt on the money

[Anonymous No.11147907]

>>11147691
This one's been in my sights for a while. It hits a lot of high notes in my criteria list for quality manifesto.

>Does it make brazen intellectual hail mary's?
Check. The author attempts to connect relatively obscure historical events (The Norman conquest of England) to broad contemporary political states of affairs.

>Is the other on the fringes of society, or an otherwise in a condition of alienation or radicalization?
Check. He committed suicide shortly after publishing it.
>Does it include citations?
Check
>Is it longwinded and rambling yet oddly coherent?
Check

[Anonymous No.11147917]

I'm surprised no poltards posted about the Anders Breivik manifesto about the Islamization of Europe.

[Anonymous No.11148034]

>>11147400
www.thefoundationpress.com

[Anonymous No.11148047]

has anybody written a screenplay based on My Twisted World yet?

[Anonymous No.11148941]

My diary desu