/lit/ - Literature

>>22982846
Assuming that this is an actual, serious question, Marxist don't think it matters what anyone thinks. They believe in economic determinism, which, according to Marx, necessarily leads to increasing democratisation and collectivisation of wealth, property, and the means of production. This is dialectical materialism.

>>22531153
>me but a Slav studying in London
Literally left me mindbroken.

>>22460558
>Pointing to a number of exceptions proves it too much of a generalization to say the pre-Aryan cultures were defined by being matriarchal, you stupid fucking brainlet.
(Which you did not do btw.)
(Also it still doesn't, as per the definition of the word "exception")
Read more or seethe more. Your call!

>>22453158
What about feudalism? You've said nothing about it besides "it's over". What an incisive observation! You should write a book about it, I bet no one's ever realised this before! Are you retarded, anon?

>>22432530
I am an author and I have never finished (reading) a book in my life.

>>22401825
Two main problems with western fantasy today:
1. Intersectional bullshit which has already been discussed to death.
2. Cynicism and love for the ugly. GOT is a typical example, but basically any "gritty" fantasy fits this description. Fantasy as a genre has romantic roots - looking back on something once beautiful that is now lost. But the current trend in fantasy is to make your setting as shitty and disgusting as possible. It takes the worst vices of the world that we know of and makes the "fantasy" consist in letting them run rampant - incest, rape, torture, corruption, might makes right, betrayal, ugliness, crudeness, base interests, etc.
It's just a sign of the times, really. People cannot image anything that isn't disgusting anymore, and so they develop a taste for the disgusting and seek things that are disgusting. It's that simple. It doesn't apply just to fantasy either, it's been a long standing trend with the arts in general.

Thread seems full of retarded faggots so I am not reading this.
To answer the question, he would pity them, because they muster all that effort and strength on behalf of worthless things. Personal virtue cannot make up for lack of principles and character.

>>21289863
Beyond based

>>21046363
I use adverbs and I think people who don't are weird.

>>21017656
Authors
The following 3 are the fathers of the discipline
Karl Marx
Emile Durkheim
Max Weber
Next up are various contributors to the field
August Comte
Gustave Le Bon
Herbert Spencer
Vilfredo Pareto
Werner Sombart
Thorstein Veblen
Ferdinand Tonnies
Talcott Parsons
C. Wright Mills
Karl Popper
Anthony Giddens
Jurgen Habermas
Pierre Bourdieu
Books
The Rules of Sociological Method
The Philosophy of Money
The Metropolis and Mental Life
The Arcades Project
The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Open Society and it’s Enemies
The Power Elite
The Sociological Imagination
Folk Devils and Moral Panic
State of Denial
Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
The Decomposition of Sociology
Subculture: The Meaning of Style
Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family and Commitment
The Making of the Counterculture

>>19873547
>noooooo, you have to care about what retards on Twitter are saying!
“No.”
I’ve never listened to Rogan’s Podcast and never will.
I don’t care and neither should you, you don’t “owe” anything to these people.

Throw him in a society that treats him like trash.

I wanted to make a society chart for this very purpose.
Anyways, here are my reccs:
Blindpill chart
The Culture of Narcissism
Bowling Alone
Democracy: The God that Failed
Why Liberalism Failed
Coming Apart
America: The Farewell Tour

“Liberal democracy” is just the disguise oligarchy puts on to pretend it is something it’s not.
I want to advance my own theory to counter the iron law of oligarchy, I call it the iron law of democracy
>After a certain point of development is reached, societies, no matter how hierarchical they were until that point, will by necessity have to implement reforms that make them more democratic and egalitarian. Societies hat fail to implement such reforms are doomed to stagnation, decline and eventual collapse/getting outcompeted by societies higher up the Progress trees
It’s not a coincidence that the decline of the West coincides perfectly with its slide backwards into oligarchy, now under the disguise of “liberal democracy” to keep up appearances

>>19253007
Quick someone post that quote where some guy btfo's Russel Brand by making a comparison between "muh vastness of space" and how according to this logic an elephant is slightly more ontologically significant than a man because it is slightly bigger.

>>19104441
Here’s the thing rightoids:
You could gas all the Jews or send hem back to Israel but as long as those banks, media conglomerates, academic positions and the like remain they’ll be filled up with people that will act the same as the Jews you despise because that’s what the system incentivizes and rewards.
You think the WASP robber barons of the Gilded Age were any better? The Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, Cecil Rhodes of that age we’re just as scummy as the Rothschilds and George Soros of today.
Obviously you’ll have to get rid of the players but ignore you want fundamental change you’ll need to get rid of the game altogether, that game being Capitalism.

>>19044097
>nihilism is the truth
>but if you’re an optimistic nihilist you’re Reddit!
Way to out yourself as an inconsistent troll

>>19016420
The SOCIETY...
of the Spectacle

Nobody’s going to stick their neck out and risk their lives for a society that abandons them and treats them like trash.
Our capitalist society and its markets are motivated by self-interest, so what’s in it for me?

>>18173874
All the male characters I write are human beings. All the female characters I write are symbolic representations of some concept (hatred, existentialism, BPD, liberal capitalism or what have you).
I am based.

>>17641991
GUESS WHAT DUMBASS? IN THIS CASE THE MOST APPROPRIATE PHRASING IS "THE PICTURE", SO NEITHER THIS NOR THAT

Yes

how can you be racist if there's just one race: the hyuman race?

are you the jokester?