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17418291 No.17418291 [Reply] [Original]

Most books advocate for standing on the side of the poor and disenfranchised but are there any books that argue you should be on the side of the rich and powerful instead?

>> No.17418326

http://orgyofthewill.net/

http://orgyofthewill.net/praise/

"You will never see someone else saying they'll exterminate the subhuman race as they ascend to a futuristic machine-god with such sincerity."

>> No.17418335

atlas shrugged

>> No.17418368

>>17418291
George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All sets out a reasoned argument to that effect. In a word, he argued that free society was a failure. Fitzhugh wrote as an antebellum southerner, although it's fair to say that not many of his peers embraced his views.

It's a sharply argued, stylishly written book, one of the reasons Harvard republished it.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674094512

>> No.17418649

>>17418291
might is right

>> No.17420539

>>17418368
No it doesn't. Fitzhugh says slavery is good because it protects niggers and if they were set free they'd be in a worse position. He was concerned for the welfare of darkies

>> No.17420602

>>17420539
Yes, that's how he frames his argument; I do see that as consistent with OP's query, in that, to "stand of the side of the poor and disenfranchised" would be to argue in favor of the abolition of slavery.

But I can see how the argument could be made that Fitzhugh is *really* on the side of the poor and disenfranchised (I think it's a morally twisted argument, however).

>> No.17420610

>>17420602
*I do *not* see that as consistent with...

>> No.17420626

>>17420602
>But I can see how the argument could be made that Fitzhugh is *really* on the side of the poor and disenfranchised (I think it's a morally twisted argument, however).

That's how Fitzhugh would see himself though

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>> No.17420676

>>17420626
>That's how Fitzhugh would see himself though

Yeah, that's how he would see it, but I don't think Fitzhugh's claim really withstands scrutiny. And I think the US collectively decided that such claims don't withstand scrutiny.

>> No.17421419

>>17418326
>click a random article
>please pay 50€

>> No.17421434

>>17421419
op is asking for literature that glorifies the rich, so it is fitting

>> No.17421437

>>17421434
>50€
>rich

>> No.17421480

>>17421437
i dont want to waste the disposable income i have on some random blog. i can at least get a game or something with that cash