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Could I get some recommendations for political philosophy?

>> No.9734897

>>9734893
>liberals uniornically believe Barack "The Cuck" Hussein Obama was a good president

Let that sink in for a moment.

>> No.9734916

Only good thread on /lit/ right now

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>>9734897

>> No.9734924

>>9734893
sounds like a good question for the politics board
>>9734897
many liberals condemn Obama's presidency. it's never an intellectually honest practice to make specific claims about statistics that run in the tens of millions
>>9734916
There are plenty just like it in the politics board

>> No.9734927

Start with Politics by Aristotle

>> No.9734946

>>9734893
>>9734897
You start and end with Hitler's Mein Kampf if you want the truth of whiteness and objectivity

>> No.9734973

Try the dictator's handbook and the righteous mind

>> No.9736055

bumping this interesting thread

>> No.9736491

>>9734893
The Communist Manifesto is all the political literature you'll ever need, OP.

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>>9734893
https://mises.org/system/tdf/Henry%20Hazlitt%20Economics%20in%20One%20Lesson.pdf?file=1&type=document

>> No.9736521

If your right-wing in the Traddy sense you'll enjoy alot the works linked here.

http://higher-order.tumblr.com/post/143073311886/the-traditional-mind-a-reading-list

Carl Schmitt is always a blast to read.

>> No.9736660

>>9736491
Maybe some Rosa Luxemburg thrown in

>> No.9737481

>>9736521
thanks for the help.

>> No.9737587

>>9736507
thanks for this book. I've read some of it

>> No.9737591

>>9736507
Since I have been told (see Post #3) that I have insufficiently supported my point in the original review below, I thought I should expand on it. I have therefore added on Post #4 in full to this review.

Original Review

I read the free copy made available here. Well, actually I read the first three chapters and scanned through the rest to see if it was more or less based on the same type of argumentation and reasoning. It was.

Can't people tell that this is just rhetoric and argument? There are a lot of causal and factual linkages being drawn that are being drawn purely on the basis of what Hazlitt thinks should happen. Sorry, whether it's libertarian mind games or socialist mind games, it's all just mind games. Either way, it's propaganda. Not facts.

To back up my assertions, here are examples of what I mean:

The precaution of looking for all the consequences of a given policy to everyone may seem elementary. Doesn't everyone know, in his personal life, that there are all sorts of indulgences delightful at the moment but disastrous in the end? Doesn't every little boy know that if he eats enough candy he will get sick? [page 4]

This is rhetoric. Worse, it’s emotive rhetoric, and typical of the type of argumentation that is contained in this tract.

On a hypothetical of government building a bridge:

But if we have trained ourselves to look beyond immediate to secondary consequences, and beyond those who are directly benefitted by a government project to others who are indirectly affected, a different picture presents itself. It is true that a particular group of bridgeworkers may receive more employment than otherwise. But the bridge has to be paid for out of taxes. For every dollar that is spent on the bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs $1,000,000 the taxpayers will lose $1,000,000. They will have that much taken away from them which they would otherwise have spent on the things they needed most.

Therefore for every public job created by the bridge project a private job has been destroyed somewhere else. We can see the men employed on the bridge. We can watch them at work. The employment argument of the government spenders becomes vivid, and probably for most people convincing. But there are other things that we do not see, because, alas, they have never been permitted to come into existence. They are er

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Laws - Plato
Politics - Aristotle
The Republic - Cicero
The Laws - Cicero
On Obligations - Cicero
The Prince - Machiavelli
Discourses on Livy - Machiavelli
Leviathan - Hobbes
The Social Contract - Rousseau
Two Treatise on Government - Locke
Utilitarianism - Mills
On liberty - Mills
Reflections on the revolution in France - Burke
The Civilisation of the renaissance in Italy - Burckhardt
Outlines of the philosophy of right - Hegel
The wealth of nations - Smith
The communist manifesto - Marx/Engels

>> No.9737664

>>9734893
http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/tripos-papers/part-i-papers-2016-2017/paper19

http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/tripos-papers/part-i-papers-2016-2017/part1-paper20

Read the set texts twice + one of the asterisked books in between.

>> No.9737670

>>9734946
You have to start and end with it because if you read any other books you'd quickly realize how much of a useless turd moistener old addy woz