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20752841 No.20752841 [Reply] [Original]

What is other good anti-capitalist fiction from a non-leftist perspective?

>> No.20753039
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20753039

>>20752841
>i need a book on how the economically illiterate can polarize their halfwit opinions of the current financial system based on political tropes that have very little actual connection to individual financial freedoms and collective economic power over political systems.

>> No.20753069

>>20753039
Just answer the question, retard

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>>20753039
what kind of a tryhard answer is this?

>> No.20753086

>>20753069
I can't. You don't know what capitalism is so reccomeding the books in opposition to it wouldn't make sense.

>> No.20753095

>>20753080
I didn't try at all. I told the truth in the most consice way possible. The question itself is an expression of detachment from reality both economically and politically.

>> No.20753114

>>20752841
You're in for slim pickings, but to help you out I'd say anything written by anyone from the right. The unfortunate part is that opposition to capitalism is found in all right-wing literature but is rarely consciously written down.

>> No.20753131

>>20753095
It's a very simple and grounded question, I don't know why you're rambling on about "detachment from reality". Runaway Horses is a modern novel that critiques the effects of capitalism on early 20th century Japanese society from a non-leftist perspective. It is one of the few modern novels that I've read (outside of perhaps The Growth of the Soil) that has this kind of critique and that is not explicitly leftist. I am just curious if any of the readers here know of similar books, but judging from the overbearing style of your two written responses, it seems unlikely that you read at all.

>> No.20753157

>>20753114
Like who? Who would you say from the modern era is "from the right" who is good?

>> No.20753203

>>20753131
>the effects of capitalism
You don't even know what capitalism is.
Left and right don't have the same meaning in different countries, especially Nippon.
Capitalism is basically barter. Left and right political-systems are labels applied arbitrarily to manipulate serfs. They are slippery and change considerably over time.
I'm not overbearing: I'm direct and concise. Reddlt tourists love projectiong emotions.

>> No.20753235

>>20753203
Monopoly capitalism and central banking are explicitly discussed in the book as pernicious forces so I think it is reasonable to use the term. The only reference to left/right I made was to specify "non-leftist", since the most common critiques of capitalism I am used to seeing at least as a westerner come from "the left". I don't really think Mishima is "right wing" in this book, but he suggests western capitalism exerts a corrupting influence on the native, traditional social structure of Japan. I am interested in books with a similar perspective. Do you know of any good ones?

>> No.20754135

>>20752841
The bible is a good start.

>> No.20754149

>>20753095
No, you're tryhard faggot, and I can smell the scent of Doritos through the screen

>> No.20754174

>>20752841
>Runaway Horses.
I read the beginning and ending and thought it was disappointing. The last part was much better described in Patriotism. It felt rushed and superficial by comparison. The beginning is turgid (lol). Mishima has written much better things.

>> No.20754635

>>20753039
here's the attention you ordered

>> No.20754652

A View in the Woods by O'Connor

>> No.20754712

>>20753086
>I can’t
Yes. Simply because you are a retard.

>> No.20754740

>>20753235
so it's not anti-capitalist, just anti "monopoly capitalist"? is non-monopoly capitalism fine? in that case why not ask for ancap fiction instead of "anti-capitalist" fiction?

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>>20754740

>> No.20754881

>>20754652
Thanks. Found this complete collection (including A View in the Woods) for free here for anyone else interested: https://www.pothe.org/documents/2017/1/The-Complete-Stories-Flannery-OConnor.pdf

>> No.20754886

>>20753203
>Left and right don't have the same meaning in different countries, especially Nippon.
>Left and right political-systems are labels applied arbitrarily to manipulate serfs. They are slippery and change considerably over time.
Everybody already knows this. 'Left-wing' and 'right-wing' are just terms we're using to easily categorise ideas. Like the terms 'Chad', 'soyb*y', 'cuck', etc.

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>>20752841
Der Ring des Nibelungen, especially Das Rheingold.

Which was already the inspiration for Mishima's tetralogy anyway.

>> No.20754927

>>20753203
>Capitalism is basically barter. Left and right political-systems are labels applied arbitrarily to manipulate serfs. They are slippery and change considerably over time.
Yep, it's a pseud.

>> No.20754981

Left wing means erosion of disparities while right wing means preservation or construction of disparities, at least in terms of intention

>> No.20755560

>>20754652
That was a good story! Any other's you'd recommend from the collection I posted here: >>20754881?