/lit/ - Literature

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But if you desire to read primary, you'll need to read:
Aristotle
Cicero
Machiavelli
Spinoza
John Milton's Areopagitica
New Science
Kant
Thomas Paine
The Federalist
Burke
Mill
Antoine-Louis-Claude, Comte Destutt de Tracy (far too underrated)
Thoreau
William James and John Dewey
Max Weber
John Rawls
Carl Schmitt
Bertrand de Jouvenel (not so influential as there's nothing Left to influence, all has been thought after he and Schmitt).

Then there are other fringe thinkers tha just repeat what the above has said—that people will meme or call you a meme for memeing.

Plato hasn't influenced anyone positively. He's a political meme.
Hannah Arendt is the only post-marx-lefty worth reading, but only for her beautiful style.