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I'm considering reading this book on geopolitics to get a good understanding of what's going on in the world right now. Can /lit/ suggest me a better book?

>> No.16598980

Burnham, The Managerial Revolution
Francis, Leviathan and its Enemies
Gurri, The Revolt of the Public
Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, The Anglo-American Establishment

The central fact of geopolitics is that capitalism is a world-system incommensurate with the mere possibility of any other world-systems, and lives by breaking down views contrary to its own and integrating all people into its own view. The existence of states and nations is an illusion, allowed to continue by the capitalist world-system as a distraction and as an intermediary for carrying out its own aims, which are really the integration of the entire world into a single network of rationalized production and consumption. This process took root in certain nations at first, but it is incidental where it developed and it is now global. One by one, other nations with pre-modern comportments were exposed to it and forced to "compete" to survive within its logics, which made the logics become instinctive, until eventually the instincts percolated down to every person in every country on the globe.

Capitalism is not synonymous with business, enterprise, entrepreneurship, or even industry. It is specifically a rationalizing function that reduces everything in the world to capital. Everything becomes capital to be manipulated by the logic of capital. Marxists partially understand this but their philosophy is also an illusion tolerated by the process so long as it never proposes real solutions; most Marxists are shallow utopians whose idea of praxis would take hundreds of years and require the reversal of trends that are hundreds of times stronger in the opposite direction than anything they could ever accomplish.

Read these 4 articles for a decent summary of what happens when polities try to rebel against the capitalist world-system:
https://www.counter-currents.com/tag/breaking-the-bondage-of-interest/

Remember, because capitalism has to colonize everything according to its own internal logic (which recognizes no "otherness," external to its own rationalizing impulses), any rebellion whatsoever is intolerable, so any polity idiosyncratic or atavistic enough to resist it is isolated, economically terrorized, and militarily destroyed as a last resort by the other polities which have already been made vehicles of capitalism.

>> No.16598993

>>16598915
It might have bibliography you can check out

>> No.16598997

>>16598980
Forgot to recommend also Quinn Slobodian's book, Globalists.

>> No.16598999

>>16598993
This

>> No.16599158

>>16598915
Just watch a whole bunch of these talks

Take the Zeihan pill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BclcpfVn2rg

>> No.16599617

>>16598980
What do you think is to be done?

>> No.16600336

>>16598980
Stop writing as if there’s an alternative.

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>>16598980
>Doesn't understand the term Geopolitics
>Gives an account that could have been directly lifted straight from Lenin's "Imperialism"
>Marxists "partially" understood this
>Links to a faggot neonazi blog

>> No.16600722

>>16598980
thanks for the recommendations

>> No.16600748

>>16598915
Try these two:
Ball & Dagger, Ideals and Ideologies (a reader)
Flint, Introduction to Geopolitics

I like flint's introduction more than Dodds

>> No.16600780

bump, interesting subject

>> No.16601229

Carl Schmitt Nomos of the earth

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>>16598915
I read the book in this series on Puritanism and it seemed pretty good, but maybe you posted it because it’s a meme i don’t know about idk

>> No.16601421

>>16599158
There's a reason no serious IR/geopolitics experts talk about Zeihan.

>> No.16601691

>>16601269
thanks lad

>> No.16602418

>>16598915
https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/wiki/index
dont thank me

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>>16602418