/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20692762]

after being a rightist in my youth, over the years I've embraced leftism for the most part. communism's is starting to seem appealing. what are some essential works dealing with communism that I can get into?

[Anonymous No.20692782]

>>20692762
>rightwinger makes thread
>leftist immediately starts copycating
same as it ever was

[Anonymous No.20692804]

>>20692782
Happened the opposite with Francoist Spain
or the word libertarian
or Hitler's appropriation of socialist talking points

[Anonymous No.20692894]

>>20692762
Nietzsche's Beyond Good & Evil
The Cantos of Ezra Pound
Orwell's 1984
Aristotle's Politics
Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature
Spinoza's Political Treatise
TLOTR by Tolkein
Discourses on Livy by Machiavelli
A Theory of Justice by Rawls
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

[Anonymous No.20692895]

>>20692762
Bookchin, Öcalan, Makhno, Bakunin.

[Anonymous No.20692900]

>>20692782
It's not a leftist who is making this thread. The first thread was made by a midwit. This thread has been made by someone who is not dumb enough to be engrossed by such stupid threads. Lacking something better to do or just procrastinating, OP decided to make a shitpost.
Anon, do you know what a shitpost is?

[Anonymous No.20692905]

>>20692894
That doesn't seem accurate

[Anonymous No.20692910]

>>20692900
>Anon, do you know what a shitpost is?
When an enemy makes a joke, you must take it as 100% seriously and psychoanalyze it. Everything you say, though, is just in jest. Different things.

[Anonymous No.20692926]

>>20692905
i'm starting to think literature can't simply be placed into some primitive, crude, binary system...

[Anonymous No.20692928]

>>20692804
>the word libertarian
good thing too. The leftist "once we kill everyone who disagrees with me we can have a stateless society" definition of libertarian is retarded

[Anonymous No.20692942]

>>20692928
>once we kill everyone who disagrees with me
I just know you had less of a problem with the fascist thread that holds an ideology that's that but more openly
Also American right-wing libertarianism was produced in the 50's and had to be forced upon the rest of the world through guns and bombs and is still praised for that by epic no step on snek memers, so much for "libertarianism"

[Anonymous No.20692971]

>>20692942
>I just know you [HEADCANON]
anyway, right wing libertarians are at least libertarian. The left wing "anarchists" are prone to building re-education camps, kidnapping children and keeping slaves, and the only times they don't become oppressive thugs is when they live in communes, wholey dependant on the functional capitalist society outside.

[Anonymous No.20692974]

>>20692905
>the culmination of leftist philosophy is franksquirt school and zizek
lmao

[Anonymous No.20692981]

>>20692762
Read Settlers and get rid of your colonial ways.

[Anonymous No.20692984]

You sound cringe.

[Anonymous No.20692991]

>>20692971
>right wing libertarians are at least libertarian
nah

[Anonymous No.20692992]

Why are /leftypol/ types so butthurt, childish and petty? Does anyone know what I mean here? I can't describe it exactly but they all have a kind of "sassy teenager" "fuck you dad you don't even GET IT you don't get ANYTHING, I HATE THIS FAMILY!" vibe to them even when they're old.

Somehow it also reminds me of early 2000s internet types, Jon Stewart liberals from yesteryear.

[Anonymous No.20692995]

TRANNY THREAD ALERT
ALL ANONS ABOVE AND BELOW THIS POST WILL NEVER BE WOMEN

[Anonymous No.20693004]

>>20692971
>re-education camps, kidnapping children and keeping slaves
A lot of right-wing libertarians praise shit like cowboys and confederates which basically did just that
Right libertarians all become fascist eventually because capitalism is based on might makes right outlooks, it's a meme at this point

[Anonymous No.20693022]

>>20692905
Trotsky, Fourier, Saint Simon

[Anonymous No.20693030]

>>20692762
Welcome, Comrade!
As I assumer you have read Marx, Engels, Lenin etc then I must tell you that the greatest threat to the Left at this time is subversion by western degenerates and Lumpenproletariat.
You will encounter this kind of vermin often online and their attempt to subvert the Workers struggle with mentally-ill filth has unfortunately become embedded in leftist online spheres. Thus it is highly important you read this book. Soon we can send these pederasts to gulag

[Anonymous No.20693031]

>>20693022
Sorry wanted to respond to OP

[Anonymous No.20693041]

>>20692992
Anon, I'm shocked...are you suggesting OP was never actually a 'rightist' as xie claims?

[Anonymous No.20693050]

>>20693022
>>20692905
thanks will add this to my list any other recs?

[Anonymous No.20693083]

>>20693050
You need to be exposed to the most deranged shit, so Sophie Lewis to understand that all women are surrogates and their children don't have any connection to them.
Benjamin Bratton to know that the future demands that all humans are to be considered objects that a scientific elite controls.
Just pirate the latest Verso books, enjoy!

[Anonymous No.20693084]

>>20692992
I know what you mean, all of their insults somehow sound gay or feminine even when they try to appear masculine or strong/violent. I don't know why. Things like "have sex, incel" could only come from a feminine mind where social rejection or lack of sex is the ultimate insult, it's kind of funny.

[Anonymous No.20693098]

>>20693084

Everyone dies alone.

[Anonymous No.20693115]

>>20693083
>all humans are to be considered objects that a scientific elite
Also very fascistic and right wing

[Anonymous No.20693121]

>>20693050
This board is filled with underage neonazis whose American programming makes them seethe at anything that questions capitalism(beyond "just kill the jews"), so there isn't gonna be much useful or good faith answers here.
But >>20687907 and >>20687913 are decent

[Anonymous No.20693162]

>>20693121
yeah, i noticed, lucky they’re too scared to go outside! hey, i should know, i was like them too

[Anonymous No.20693180]

>>20692991
Half the things on this list are completely compatible with lolbertarianism, the rest are easily hand-waved away because no one reasonable wants groids destroying their town.

[Anonymous No.20693184]

>>20692762
God I fucking hate directionbrain threads.

[Anonymous No.20693191]

>>20693162
Well the last time one did, they killed multiple people in a shopping mall. They're just hopeless to talk to seriously at this point
I recommend using marxists.org, has entire libraries of leftist literature over the last few hundred years, all for free

[Anonymous No.20693278]

>>20693004
>NO U
yawn

[Anonymous No.20693287]

>>20692991
>being a libertarian means you should lay down and die when the enemy is at the gates
but anyway,
mucho texto

[Anonymous No.20693512]

Why merely read about communism? Go live it.
Travel to Venezuela and see what a paradise it is.
I mean, they're the founding member of OPEC...they can literally pump money out of the ground!
So go live there, and see how well it's working for them!

[Anonymous No.20693518]

>>20693512
Only if you live in capitalist paradises like Honduras instead

[Anonymous No.20693520]

>>20693512
booking my ticket now! thanks i had no idea!

[Anonymous No.20693538]

>>20692992
Also reminds me of the butthurt liberal fascists they fight with. You people are incurably immature.

[Anonymous No.20693542]

>>20693518
Never said I was some sort of pure capitalist.
I reject the binary approach to politics.
I also reject the one-dimensional axis (i.e. left vs right).
Politics, like everything else in the real world, is a multidimensional spectrum with feedback.
Ideology itself is an admission of intellectual failure.
It's too bad most people are half-witted cattle, racing to be first to the slaughterhouse, and stampeding me along with them.

[Anonymous No.20693565]

>>20693542
Only nerds who will never effect the world around them think like this. I mean no one else will effect it either, but they're not pretentious about it or think they're better. You're gonna fall in line with one scale more than the other

[Anonymous No.20693666]

>>20692905
this is so awful its hilarious

[Anonymous No.20694418]

>>20692942
That's Neoliberalism you fucking retard.
I think Libertarians are a joke (just like Anarchists, Marxists and Fascists), but I've lost count of how many retards I've seen who can't tell the difference between liberals, neoliberals and Libertarians. All three of them are vastly different but retarded on their own merits.

[Anonymous No.20694540]

>>20694418
>just like Anarchists, Marxists and Fascists
That's because you're historically illiterate