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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?

>> No.11802657

>>11801452
Yes

>> No.11803485

>>11801452
What should I read after that book guys?

>> No.11803496

>>11803485
the talmud

>> No.11803504

>>11803496
Nice try Rabbi.

>> No.11804079

>>11803485
Moldbug, Rothbard & Mises.

http://moldbuggery.blogspot.com/
mises.org

>> No.11804293

>>11801452
I read it (and I also have a degree in Political Economy and took some courses with a libertarian prof.).

He does a decent job of writing and has a few good points/arguments but some of his ideas are honestly pretty stupid/unworkable in the real world and are only worth considering as university-tier thought experiments (i.e. insurance companies as a means of collective defense for autonomous households).

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11804339

>>11803485
This snappy fellow

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>tfw it isn't in my university library

The damn Cathedral has struck again!!

>> No.11805133

>>11804079
Any specific books though?

>> No.11805263

>>11805133
MOLDBUG (pictured here >>11804339)
https://moldbuggery.blogspot.com/ - the link has got them all neatly grouped, so you don't have to browse the blog endlessly. He has also amazing stand alone articles. Here are my recommendations:
> A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (lots of turning politics and history upside down)
> How Dawkins got pwned (history of religions in Anglo countries)
> An open letter to open-minded progressives

HOPPE, even if you have already read his magnum opus:
> From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy: A Tale of Moral and Economic Folly and Decay
and while the following retreats same waters as "Democracy God That Failed", it's still pretty good:
> The Great Fiction

ROTHBARD
https://mises.org/library/read-rothbard
> mises.org/document/1179 (AnCap / Libertarian ethics)
> https://mises.org/library/anatomy-state
> https://mises.org/library/what-has-government-done-our-money (I have not personally read but people seem to like it)

MISES:
https://mises.org/library/human-action-0 (The origins of praxeology, loved by Moldbug and Hoppe: )
https://mises.org/library/theory-money-and-credit (Theoretical money/banking/credit critique, loved by Moldbug and Hoppe)

>> No.11805269

>>11805263
>> A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (lots of turning politics and history upside down)
This article , when it gets down to history, has some great links to forgotten/ignored primary source books.
Same goes for the Dawkins article if you care about religions.

>> No.11805291

>>11801452
>economics-as-ideology shit
implying the world works any other way you absolute faggot

>> No.11805299

>>11805291
there is no phenomenal self, Kant and Descartes should be burned and banned, all political and economic philosophy based on the idea of actors or agents must be uprooted, extirpated and the proliferating forces snuffed out and permanently subdued by a stronger model, one based in flux.

>> No.11805319

>>11805299
Great, lets get A.I. to govern us, I agree.

>> No.11805362

>>11805299
>a stronger model, one based in flux
Biological and economic drivers have remained stable over long periods of human history. This behavior is predictable enough to use as the basis for philosophy but I can understand why you might feel it lacks depth. However, if you're response to it is pathological verbosity and to use "a stronger model, one based on flux" your opinion can safely be disregarded.

>> No.11806590

>>11804388
Hate it when this happens

>> No.11806600

>>11805299
I am and I are all we, kill anyone who disagrees

>> No.11807651

>>11805299
go to bed Heraclitus

>> No.11808398

>Muh rationally acting monarch? What do you mean by this OP?