/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13894363]

So you want to be a Leftist? Well here are the essentials:

Das Kapital
Process and Reality
Adventures of Ideas
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
Capitalist Realism
Manafacturing Consent
The Spirit of a Man Under Socialism
Anti-Oedipus
A Thousand Plateaus
The Birth of Biopolitics
The Order of Things
Archaeology of Knowledge
Discipline and Punish
Cosmopolitics
Psychopolitics
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Ecology of Freedom
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Human Condition
The Genealogy of Morals
Mythologies
The Prison Notebooks
The Inhuman
History and Class Conciousness
Reform or Revolution
The Gift
The Principle of Hope
The Jargon of Authenticity
Aesthetic Theory
Negative Dialectics
Society of the Spectacle
Arcades Project
Illuminations
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere:An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
The Theory of Communicative Action
Production of Space
Critique of Everyday Life

You cannot be a leftist without reading the theory so start reading. As opposed being just another tard on the Right we actually read and we read shit of discernible talent ie. not gaynon and ebola.

[Anonymous No.13894486]

Do we really need to have this thread again?

[Anonymous No.13894491]

>>13894363
nobody is going to read this huge list of books just because you posted a smug anime girl

[Anonymous No.13894522]

>>13894363
Most of those authors can easily be appropriated by right wingers.

[Anonymous No.13894531]

Nobody is going to read authors that were retroactively refuted.

[Anonymous No.13894539]

>>13894363
Why would you "want" to be any political ideology? You form some basic values and beliefs and then draw from ideologies that seem to fit your worldview, expanding your understanding of yourself and the world as you do so. Treating ideology like it's a brand is idiotic.

[Anonymous No.13894711]

This makes me wonder... Do movements/ideologies/ideas ultimately fail because the people who continue those movements/ideologies/ideas stop giving a shit? They just go with the condensed and easy-to-digest versions of those movements/ideologies/ideas? We're all caught in a constant state of thought and thoughtlessness as everyone takes their turn in the spotlight, waiting for their turn to be the ones who truly "live".

[Anonymous No.13894723]

>>13894539
What year are you in?

[Anonymous No.13894767]

>>13894363
>A Brief History of Neoliberalism
>Das Kapital
>Process and Reality
>The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Only worthwhile books on that list

[Anonymous No.13894927]

>>13894363
Adorno was a hardcore right-winger pretending to be a leftist. He was an aristocratic marxist with zero empathy for the common man.

[Anonymous No.13894941]

>>13894927
>He was an aristocratic marxist with zero empathy for the common man.
Sounds like a modern "leftist" to me.

[Anonymous No.13895348]

>>13894363
No, I want to be your boyfriend.

[Anonymous No.13895351]

>>13894927
No one actually likes the common man.

[Anonymous No.13895358]

>>13894363
academic critical theory is bullshit

[Anonymous No.13895374]

>>13894927
this is not true

also the left emerges from a critique of bourgeois ideology, which unravels its possibilities and limitations, not merely to condemn or affirm this or that side

so bourgeois inheritance is par for the course

[Anonymous No.13895415]

>The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Didn't incels debunk this one by claiming that scientists found out only like 1/3 of cavemen reproduced?
Also pic related.

[Anonymous No.13895422]

>>13895415
How did they do that, did they have a time machine?

[Anonymous No.13895426]

>>13895422
they did it by testing mitochondrial dna or something.

[Anonymous No.13895469]

>>13894941
>aristocratic marxist
The term is bourgeois.

[Anonymous No.13895476]

>>13894363
Is this bait?
>Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Listen anon, I gather that you're a onions Marxist based on your apparent revulsion of anything that wasn't written by an academic, but putting Anarchy, State, and Utopia--a right-libertarian work--and not including what's near-universally considered the most important work on the state (you now exactly which one I'm talking about) is going way too far, man. Try to be a little bit less of an ultra when you're compiling a general reading list.

[Anonymous No.13895498]

>>13895415
Idk about that, but sure, it's not that difficult in the current year to identify factual errors in a work of anthropology written 150 years ago. We really might as well throw out everything Engels said about primitive societies. What's important and still resonates today is Engels analysis of the family unit of Roman society and its transformation into the nuclear family of capitalist society.

[Anonymous No.13895499]

Okay since you're all so well read how would the perfect form of socialism work then?

[Anonymous No.13895501]

>>13895476
>onions Marxist
I have no idea how this ended up in my post. I had originally typed something else but then erased part of my sentence and somehow ended up with this.

[Anonymous No.13895515]

>>13895501
Newfag try writing soi

[Anonymous No.13895517]

Deleuze was a hyper capitalist

[Anonymous No.13895521]

>>13894927
>>13894522
Being anti-capitalism isn't right wing

[Anonymous No.13895524]

Why yes I am a right leaning libertarian, how could you tell?

[Anonymous No.13895529]

>>13895515
>newfag
Oh god, when did they add that filter

[Anonymous No.13895532]

>>13895529
a couple of years ago, newfag

[Anonymous No.13895543]

What does lit think about market socialism?
It seem neither the left nor the right like it, which leads me to believe its the best system.

[Anonymous No.13895547]

>>13895543
capitalism with extra steps

[Anonymous No.13895552]

>>13895547
but under market socialism the workers literately own the means of production.

[Anonymous No.13895570]

>>13894363
>So you want to be a leftist?
No, I don't want to be part of history's biggest losers (get genocided by your own party lol). I've decided to become a distributist.

[Anonymous No.13895661]

>>13894363
>So you want to be a Leftist?
No I don't

[Anonymous No.13895717]

>>13895570
Morality is not a team sport. If you want to be on the winning team be a soulless neolib, stop posting here and go buy stuff like a good boy.

[Anonymous No.13895737]

What anime was Theodor Adorno in?

[Anonymous No.13895789]

>>13894363
>Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Is this a condemnation of the postmodern scene?

[Anonymous No.13895888]

>>13894711
Do you think the majority of people in any given movement/ideology even had a comprehensive understanding of the theory? There's a nice anecdote from the french revolution where peasants stopped a nobleman along the road and demand from him "freedom". When he asked them what they meant by freedom, they said they didn't know but they wanted it anyway.

[Anonymous No.13895977]

>>13895552
but production is still organized in accordance with the profit motive. Its a substantial improvement over the current state of things, but a market socialist society would still have many of the trappings of a purely capitalist society.

[Anonymous No.13896042]

If Tohsaka Rin represents the left, does Luvia represent the right?

[Anonymous No.13896104]

>>13896042
Gil represents the right.
>Bloodthirsty
>Greedy beyond belief and obsessed with wealth
>Abandons rationality in favour of a relentless pursuit of wealth
>absolutely despises everyone except the girl he wants to rape and the most villainous freak he knows
>prides himself on his ability to destroy the world
>Most of his power is derived from his undeserved pedigree as a demi-God and the world's oldest hero

[Anonymous No.13896200]

>>13894531
>retroactively
Bet they won't say it to they face

[Anonymous No.13896252]

>>13896104

[Anonymous No.13896283]

>>13895977
How so?
If everything is worker owned and the investor class is removed wouldn't that solve the contradictions of capital?

[Anonymous No.13896878]

>>13894363
i'm a leftist and all i had to do was read haruki murakami and donate money to wikipedia

[Anonymous No.13896893]

>>13894363
>"leftist" (translation: shabbos goy)
>posts anime
Not even surprised.

[Anonymous No.13896940]

>>13894363
All that is necessary to be a leftist is a hatred of your own people and a heart corrupted by envy.

[Anonymous No.13897228]

>>13896283
No of course not. It may resolve one of the contradictions of capital, the social nature of production in contrast to the private nature of property ownership, but co-ops driven by the profit motive aren't immune to all the other tendencies of capital, particularly the tendency of the accumulation of capital in fewer and fewer hands, resulting in a gradient between Big Co-Op and small co-op which would be more or less isomorphic to the divide between the bourgeoisie and the petite bourgeoisie. Best case scenario here is a new, less exploitative class division.
And going beyond all that, production organized around profit will always fail to meet human needs; this is practically a tautology. And I'm not sure if a market socialist society has much of an advantage over a capitalist society when it comes to preventing total ecological collapse.

[Anonymous No.13897248]

>>13894927
>right-winger pretending to be a leftist.
Is this the right's new way of appropriating leftist ideas?

[Anonymous No.13897256]

>>13897228
are there any models of what a large scale non market society might look like? even historical socialist states were geared towards the production of commodities

[Anonymous No.13897280]

>>13895521
Only if you're Republican or ancap.

[Anonymous No.13897284]

>>13897228
>resulting in a gradient between Big Co-Op and small co-op which would be more or less isomorphic to the divide between the bourgeoisie and the petite bourgeoisie
But a bourgeoisie is the investor class and so is the petit-bourgeoisie.
As long as coops are not allowed to invest in anything other than their coops the only class that will remain is the working class.
That's the whole point.
As far as the difference between the big coop and the small coops.
The state can tax them accordingly via progressive income tax and progressive coop tax.
>And I'm not sure if a market socialist society has much of an advantage over a capitalist society when it comes to preventing total ecological collapse.
the state can enact ecological laws. With no shareholders to answer to there's less pressure.

[Anonymous No.13897285]

Why would you "want" to be a leftist?
Its a life of teenage angst, and hoping for a future that seems impossible to achieve?

being a fascist and beating down commie degenerates is a much more satisfying life than being a leftist

[Anonymous No.13897320]

>>13895521
>Being anti-capitalism isn't right wing

[Anonymous No.13897337]

>>13897320
>Posts guy who cucked the workers to German business owners instead of the Jewish ones
At least post Strasser you faggot

[Anonymous No.13897352]

>>13897337
>>Posts guy who cucked the workers to German business owners instead of the Jewish ones
>At least post Strasser you faggot
shutup faggot Strasser was a commie idiot.