/lit/ - Literature

Anyone read this yet?

What does /lit/ thing of the poem I wrote when I was 11?

Post your childhood poems/stories.

The Power of Stoicism

By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.

>7306617
Underrated post

delete this thread and kill yourself

>>6128548
Praxis is inseparable from theory.
If you agree Franco is fascist, then you agree Stalin was communist.

>letting capitalism destroy itself with automation and a worldwide labour crisis

we've been waiting for that to happen for hundreds of year, you should know by now that the more capitalism rots the better it works.

Here is what will change global capitalism as we know it:
Biogenetics
Wealth Inheritance
Ecological catastrophe

Change for the worse, of course. Perhaps a kind of free market oligarchy. We will look back on the early 2000s fondly as a time where billionaires at least could claim to have made their own success.

>>6073094
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Socialism_%28Germany%29

>The program of the Social Democrats included all of the programs that Bismarck eventually implemented, but also included programs designed to preempt the programs championed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

I can quote from Wikipedia too. Your point was about the marxist origins of welfare reform in the Bismark's Germany.

>>6073049
>lol, Bismark was a Marxism?

Mate it was literally called state sociallism and the program set forward by the social democratics was directly influenced by the work of marx and engels. Bismark tried to remove the overtly socialistic stuff but it was all from the program of the SDs

>>6073035
fascism just appropriates fine things like patriotism, national heritage, anger against economic exploitation etc in its attempts to unleash barbarism. It's still quite unbelievable that a self -proclaimed fascist in 2015 can deny the central component of fascism is about liberating mankind's primordial (not rational) nature.

>>6072984
I'm politically left and I don't distance communism from Marxism at all, i think 20th century communism was the biggest political calamity of all time and I hate ' this is not true...' arguments as much as you. It's stagnant and backwards and idiots will wave soviet flags at every opportunity, but whereas interpretations of Marxism lead to the formation of welfare states, universal healthcare and education etc, there is nothing to be extracted from fascism which will benefit the common.

But clearly you have chosen your side and will continue to deceive yourself that attaching your pride to the circumstances of your birth is a rational stance.

>>6072946
>For the Fascist, the State is always in fieri. It is in our hands, wholly; whence our very serious responsibility towards it

And you think this is a rational stance? Thank you for proving me right.

>liberalism and communism
Ok chief, I get why you'd want to distance yourself from the Nazi's since they've been so thoroughly exploded by history despite being the most successful implimentation of fascist thought in modern history, but i bet wouldnt say the same about Mussolini or Salazar or any of those creeps history often overlooks in its mockery.

>>6072939

I'm using the definition of nationalism explicit to fascism, that of picking a side you consider the best and thinking in terms of competitive prestige.

>>6072929

Cultural heritage and patriotism is not the same as nationalism.
Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception.

>>6072879
>being a cakeboi

Ok i guess if you believe nationalism and sometimes racism are rational interpretations of reality and not manifestations of reactionary desires of the average human character then Fascism and probably lots of other fun things are rational too.

Even Hitler would laugh at you for sincerely believing this

>>6072853
saying 'fascism is irrational' doesn't require critique, it's inherent to the definition of the term. You may as well be asking me to provide a critique to prove feminism is concerned with social rights for women or that Derrida uses language to showcase his ideas.

>>6072833
If you disagree with me then you have a different definition of fascism than the one accepted by most people, including most fascists themselves.

>>6072823
Zizek is great, some people just go crazy over him
Living in the end times is a very readable piece which contains all of his most important theory and i think it's his most popular. Absolute Recoil is his latest book and it's also very good. I hope you like long tangents.

>>6072781
all real fascists know the kernel of fascism is about liberation for the irrationality of the average human character. You can argue about whether that's a good or evil thing, but don't try to pretend it's a rational ideology.

you have learned nothing

Nice trips tho

fascism is inherently irrational but it shouldn't be banned, especially if it serves as a containment thread for wandering /pol/sters

how can you steal money if money isn't real?

meandering

Žižek and Chomsky

you already know which is which