/lit/ - Literature

To improve my French, Spanish, Portuguese to the point that I can write profoundly and fluently in those languages, and give speeches in those languages.

To learn Italian, Russian, maybe eventually Sanskrit or Japanese as well.

To build a successful business empire and eventually a powerful estate, securing my family's existence within the upper folds of society.

To sleep with a lot beautiful women and let my genes proliferate.

To accumulate cultural and social capital through art and politics. Slowly carve out a sphere of influence in the world and leave my signature in the history books.

And finally, to solve some conjecture or pioneer some field in mathematics, so I can say I've done my part in carving out some corner of the known universe.

>>8616986
>Be 17, taking a latin class but I never really payed attention
>Reading Bataille in class whenever I have free time
>Prof sees it
>"SO anon, you're reading pornography in my class eh?"
>Class starts laughing at me
>Prof glares at them and calls them a bunch of plebs or something along those lines
>Completely unwarranted respect from him for the rest of the semester

>>8617336
>tfw read the doctrine of fascism when I was 13 and, as a direct result, never went through an edgy political/racist phase

>>8617336
Communism doesn't seem so much a phase as a trap people fall into when they try to talk about politics without ever engaging or understanding politics.

Apparently he was a prolific reader. Same with Stalin.

I mentioned this in another thread, but the context leading up to Mussolini's death during the Italian Social Republic, which where at one time quite accurate if I remember correctly, has almost completely been committed to make him seem like the kind of bastard who would kill his own son in law.

While maybe not technically false,
>Feeling that he had to do what he could to blunt the edges of Nazi repression
is a lot different from the reality where he only agreed to be a Nazi puppet leader after Hitler threatened to destroy several major Italian cities and threatened massacring civilians.

I wouldn't trust wikipedia for anything political.

>>6625206
>but he appears to have lacked the beauty and Will of Napoleon, Caesar, Cesare Borgia, etc
He certainly did. Hell, I'd go so far as to say he was a complete failure in his life, and most of what he did do right was appropriated from less compromising individuals.

He was an amazing example of a great statesman however. His ability to bring extremely diverse fractions together while creating a well functioning state, the social programs he created, and the immense energy he poured into building a persona for himself (which I believe, given fair examination, was much more Nietzschean than the sheep's clothing modern politicians dress themselves in) would have won him overwhelming and lasting respect as a social reformer in any other time in history.

I'm not sure what N's opinion was about martyrs was, but the manner of Mussolini's death was titillatingly tragic. After being locked away in a mountain prison where he spent his days reading Nietzsche and the Bible, Hitler "rescued" him and demanded that he become a puppet leader for the Germans, as well as execute several members of the Fascist Council as well as his own son in law. He refused, but was forced into obeying it in order to save Milan, Genoa, and Turin from total destruction by the German army. When he was finally killed, he tore open his coat and rather than resisting, only asked that the executioner not shoot him in the face. If the tragedy of Mussolini's death doesn't redeem him at least aesthetically, I don't know what could. Interestingly wikipedia's removed all the interesting information about his death to make him fit the current narrative, but Ray Moseley's book is a good source of information if you're interested.