[–] Son_Of_Hate 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Karl Marx wrote a book I like. It's called "A World Without Jews". I've never read it, but the title is pretty great.
[–] andrew_jackson 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
William Powell isn't terrible. Hunter Thompson, isn't terrible. Chomsky isn't completely terrible.
[–] Stinkybeans 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Hunter S. Thompson, at least back in the day. I haven't read any of his stuff in a while, I should see how it stacks up.
[–] BlackSheepBrouhaha 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Antonio Gramsci, specifically on Cultural Hegemony.
Few have such a breadth of knowledge on the metaphysics of statecraft, and while he was a marxist, his understanding of political sociology is a useful voice at the roundtable of your mind.
[–] BlackSheepBrouhaha 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
And for those who don't care to dive into it, the concept of Hegemony is similar to Game Theory, but without the Math. It is the realization that culturally, politically, economically, and religiously; the table is set before you arrive. You are free to the extent that you may choose which dish to eat first, which to come back for seconds, which to abstain, and even which to combine in novel ways like the cranberry Turkey biscuit sandwich; but it takes a very special person like Nietzche's Ubermench to go beyond the constraints presented, into the realm of pure potential, and extract a novel original or enlightened set of actions which transcend the set of expected behaviors and open a new realm of grace and glory which we thereafter emulate.
If you're familiar with Star Trek, Hegemony is the Kobayashi Maru.
[–] Joe_McCarthy [S] 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago (edited ago)
Yeah, by now kind of a standard go to or even must read. Though I don't know of anyone that actually reads him in the original. I read a book surveying his thought. It was good enough. But he has had impact on a wide swath of dissident rightists and even mainstream Christians. He is a particularly pronounced testament to the power of leftist thought that his praxis has almost become synonymous with right-wing ideology.
[–] Wazhappenin1 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Chris Hedges. Read two of his books
Wages of Rebellion and Empire of illusion
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[–] Wazhappenin1 ago
the guy can write. and makes great points and in many ways encapuslates my worldview absent ethno nationalism and the 2A. Hedges views on guns displays a true lack of research and embrace of the stupidest group think imaginable. But on the second hand i realize who he is and that he is a "cultured academic" who was brought up on Seldes, Roosevelt, Studs Terkel, Zinn and Chomsky. Deep down inside hes a bolshevick who wants to keep his hands clean.