/lit/ - Literature

>>19411408

>>19411411

>why do my centrally planned economies keep failing? Better keep people from leaving til I figure it out

>>19411408
If you're looking for a realist approach I highly recommend pic related. The opening chapter on Dante alone is well worth reading

>>19411408
Han Feizi

>>19411434
>centrally planned economies keep failing
They don't. Central planning is a better design. It fails when it is abandoned. You don't need to have equality. You can have a totally meritocratic, inegalitarian, Darwinian planned economy.

>>19411497
Cool costume

>>19411545
Oof.

>>19411408
I've read the first two of OP's books and they are pretty damn entertaining. LBJ was a fucking nut.

>>19411545
>You can have a totally meritocratic, inegalitarian, Darwinian planned economy.
Interesting. Were there any Marxists/socialists who espoused this kind of system?

>>19411615
Have you read the Power Broker?

>>19411545
Enjoy being smugged at by retarded lolberts who still haven't accepted that the government is shit because the people running it are foreigners who hate goyim, not because "government doesn't work".

>>19411408

>>19411705

>>19411676
No unfortunately but I might give it a read after I finish the rest of the years of lbj

>>19411705
i bought this when i was 11 and to this day i've read as much of it as was quoted on the back:

“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.”

>>19411408
Diplomacy by Kissinger
The Agony of the American Left by Lasch
American Foreign Policy and its Thinkers by Anderson
The Blowback series by Chalmers Johnson
and Mein Kampf, of course.

>>19411432
>>19411495
Good books

>>19411434
Like how it failed to turn feudal Russian into a space farimg super power in about 35 years?

>>19411408
These any good?

>>19411408
robert caro's prose is the closest you can get to stream of consciousness without actually doing it

>>19411823
i like when people question now why americans have lost their minds when if you know enough about history it's that the postwar consensus was a historic aberration and artificial normalcy. old weird america was always lurking below the surface and has begun to erupt as neoliberal capitalism eroded all the seals carefully deployed to suppress it

>>19411434
>why do my centrally planned economies keep failing?
Amazon is doing pretty well

>>19411545
bump

>>19411979
Space farming? He worse than Hitler, in terms of democide.

>>19412234
He was*

>>19411434
>why do my centrally planned economies keep failing
they dont. a lot of mega corporations like walmart and amazon are centrally planned. go read the people's republic of walmart.

>>19412299
walmart and amazon both operate according to market inputs, though, so

>>19411958
How well do Henry Kissinger's books hold up? Are they applicable today?

>>19411497
Is that Seth Putnam?

>>19412457
Diplomacy is mostly just a history of the art of diplomacy starting in the 1600s, although his own interpretations and applied theory of realpolitik are apparent. I haven't read his other books aside from his doctoral thesis, which is also excellent.

If you want more relevant material to practitioners of grand strategy today, read Brzezinski's books.

>>19411495
"James Burnham"

God among humans