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You, Anon, have been made dictator of your country. What five books do you make mandatory to have in every home?

USA
>Bible KJV
>Walden and Civil Disobedience
>Works of the American Revolution
>Democracy in America
>Moby Dick

>> No.19232788

>>19232765
I abdicate. No man should hold dominion over his peers.

>> No.19232790

>1984
>Fahrenheit 451
>Slaughterhouse 5
>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
>Freakonomics: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
>Shock Doctrine
>Pragmatism and Radical Democracy
>Tears We Cannot Stop
>Long Time Coming

>> No.19232799

>>19232790
>>19232765I can smell the body odor from here.

>> No.19232803

>>19232790
holy reddit I hope this is bait

>> No.19232815

>>19232765
5 copies of White Fragility

>> No.19232880

>>19232765
Technology and the Canadian Mind
The Sublime Object of Ideology
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
The Ego and Its Own
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

>> No.19232888

>>19232765
I don't make any books universally mandated. I'm a pluralist.

>> No.19232899

>>19232765
>Wordsworth edition of Capital
>Pimp by Iceberg Slim
>Anti-Oedipus
>Warhammer 40K core rules

>> No.19232904

The Road to Serfdom
Basic Economics
1984
Brave New World
Harrison Bergeron

Then I'd fake my death and move to a cabin in Alaska.

>> No.19233033

Bible with Apocrypha
Bhagavad Gita
Plato Complete Works
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Iliad + Odyssey

In addition all schools will have mandatory exams which are intended to make sure all of this has actually been read and comprehended.

>> No.19233045

>>19232765
>What five books do you make mandatory to have in every home?
I don't care if they have it in their homes, they have to read it

>> No.19233055

>>19233033
Why are bats considered birds?

>> No.19233062

None cause they won’t even open them

>> No.19233176

>Capital and Ideología by Thomas Picketty
>The Waves by Virginia Woolf
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Journey to the end of the night
>Poet in New York by Federico García Lorca

No I won't elaborate

>> No.19233200

>Call of the Crocodile
>Call of the Cherokee
>Call of the Arcade
>Call of the Cradle
>Call of the Kappa

>> No.19233227

>>19233062
they might as long as you don't make them read heavy, boring shit like the bible or whatnot
everyone's bound to crack it open out of boredom at some point

>> No.19233258

>>19233200
Don't forget the Sonichu one.

>> No.19233265

>>19232765
Philosophy in the Bedroom - Sade
The Unique and His Property - Stirner
Twilight of the Idols - Nietzsche
Mein Kampf - Hitler
The Concept of the Political - Schmitt

>> No.19233583

>>19232790
lol

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19233717

>>19232765
i would have me and my top 4 niggas write a book each

>> No.19233880

>>19233717
Assad must go

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19233927

>>19233880
Who must go?

>> No.19233933

Like the great ones, I would write a book myself and make it mandatory.

>> No.19233934

My Diary Desu vols 1-5

Making his own book the defacto bible made Hitler insanely rich, I would not pass up the opportunity to do the same

>> No.19233954

>>19233033
How come the mixture of the Bible along with Thus Spoke and Bhagavad Gita?

>> No.19233978

>>19232880
>The Ego and Its Own

Why? I'm curious about it but never see much beyond it being a meme here.

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19233991

>>19233978
Stirner really completed classical german philosophy

>> No.19233998

>>19233991
I see. Maybe i'll take a look one day.

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19234102

>>19232765
USA
>Leviathan
>Du Pape
>The Bible (Douay-Rheims)
>Rerum Novarum
>My Diary desu
I am going to make an American Estado Novo and you are going to like it.

>> No.19234324

>>19233927
kek he got banned

>> No.19234351

>>19234102
>Estado Novo
redpill me about the Estado Novo.
I lurk the portuguese subreddits and they always say it was terrible and Salazar was a horrible person.

>> No.19234369

>>19234351
>subreddits
>cringe opinions
like pottery

>> No.19234388

>>19234102
based luso-american diaspora

>> No.19234389

>>19232765
Thomas Paine's Common Sense and Vanna White's autobiography (It's a damn good book).

>> No.19234391

>>19232788
based

>> No.19234395

>>19232788
this.

>> No.19234425

>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
>Brave New World
>The Fire Next Time
>Siddhartha
>whichever book has the transcriptions of Einstein’s debate with Bohr

>> No.19234426

>>19234389
>Vanna White's autobiography
Interesting

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19234460

>>19232765
>United States
>five books
I'm gonna run with "5 books per category" because that's what I'd do if I were dictator.
Everyone must learn to respect the major world religions and make up their own decisions on what they believe.
>The Unabridged Holy Vedas
>The Unabridged Pali Canon
>The Holy Bible, King James Version
>The Holy Qur'an
>The God Delusion
Everyone must start with the Greeks.
>The Iliad
>The Odyssey
>The Trial and Death of Socrates
>Lysistrata
>The Complete Poems of Sappho
Everyone must have a basic understanding of the literature of their own country.
>Moby-Dick
>Leaves of Grass
>Our Town
>East of Eden
>Gravity's Rainbow
Everyone must have a basic understanding of Eastern literature.
>Ramayana
>The Tale of Genji
>Journey to the West
>Kafka on the Shore
>Beijing Coma
Everyone should be familiar with the British Isles.
>Beowulf
>Julius Caesar
>Pride and Prejudice
>A Tale of Two Cities
>Ulysses
Everyone must have some experience with the writings of minorities.
>Giovanni's Room
>Things Fall Apart
>One Hundred Years of Solitude
>Midnight's Children
>Never Let Me Go
Everyone should be familiar with the continental Europeans.
>Don Quixote
>The Count of Monte Cristo
>Les Miserables
>War and Peace
>The Trial
Everyone must have a childhood.
>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
>The Hobbit and LOTR
>The Lorax
>Harry Potter
>Artemis Fowl trilogy

>> No.19234599

>>19233927
Assads shitty mustache.

>> No.19234610

>>19234102
>>Rerum Novarum
lmao, retaining bourgeois property relations without the emergent properties of capitalism is utopian