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[Anonymous No.16276290]

How come there are no right-wing intellectuals?

[Anonymous No.16276299]

>>16276290
>2020
>intellectuals

name one notable intellectual of the 21st century or even the late 20th. Also falling for false dichotomy...

[Anonymous No.16276305]

>>16276290
Intellectuals reject the left wing-right wing dichotomy.

[Anonymous No.16276307]

>>16276290
...

[Anonymous No.16276311]

>>16276307
Why was he so happy bros? What's his secret?

[Anonymous No.16276312]

>>16276299
This. There are no more intellectuals, left or right, in the humanities. They all employ limited rhetorical fallacies two thousand five hundred years out of date in their thinking. There are merely good technicians, programmers, and scientists. The thinkers of this era aren’t even an Edison lightbulb - dimwits.

[Anonymous No.16276314]

>>16276290
Kant
Stirner
Hegel
Hamsun
Moldbug
Nick Land
Wittgenstein
Foucault
Evola
...

So, leftycucks, where's your roster? Marx? Bill Nye?

[Sage No.16276317]

>>16276290
Guaranteed replies

[Anonymous No.16276324]

>>16276311
Fucking Hannah Arendt, minimizing the amount of technology you use. I've tried the 2nd but sadly I'll never try out the first ;-;

[Anonymous No.16276342]

>>16276314
>Kant but no Fichte

[Anonymous No.16276346]

>>16276324
She probably wasn't that attractive anyway man.

[Anonymous No.16276347]

>>16276311
Having libra in moon and sun. Lucky bastard.

[Anonymous No.16276378]

name one notable intellectual of the English speaking type currently active this year or active in the late 20th century.

[Anonymous No.16276402]

>>16276378
Bell Hooks

[Anonymous No.16276403]

>>16276317
These threads are just a comfy excuse for right wingers to get together

[Anonymous No.16276429]

>>16276378
Roger Scruton, Patrick Buchanan, Samuel T. Francis? They obviously don't compare to an Ezra Pound or Schmitt but they're still intellectuals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoybTk6TEX4

[Anonymous No.16276443]

>>16276314
>old therefore right-wing
u just posted cringe bro

[Anonymous No.16276470]

>>16276429
(((Ezra)))

[Anonymous No.16276477]

>>16276443
Very big cope

[Anonymous No.16276482]

>>16276470
Not jewish faggot

[Anonymous No.16276506]

>>16276290
Plato.

[Anonymous No.16276518]

>>16276506
>responds to obvious bait instead of reporting

[Anonymous No.16276534]

>>16276518
You're right, will report now, I forgot.

[Anonymous No.16276575]

>>16276299
Shniff, pure ideology

[Anonymous No.16276578]

>>16276575
LARPer and not much more.

[Anonymous No.16276630]

>>16276299
Ted Kaczynski

[Anonymous No.16276655]

>>16276290
They associate intelligence with leftism so they distance themselves from learning and extol the virtues of "common sense" (i.e., prejudice).

[Anonymous No.16276662]

>>16276314
>Kant
Not right wing
>Stirner
Not right wing
>Hegel
Not right wing
>Moldbug
Not an intellectual
>Wittgenstein
Not right wing
>Foucault
Not right wing
>Evola
Not an intellectual

[Anonymous No.16276685]

>>16276290
Because right wing politics and ideologies are a means of justifying (social, economic, political) oppression and can't stand up to rigorous analysis. Racism, right wing economics and fascist "theory" are all means of justifying the aggregation of wealth by the few at the expense of the many. They're a distraction from the ills of capitalism, which those who push these ideologies depend on. If you're right wing, whether you know it or not, you are a pawn used by powerful elites to justify their position in society.

[Anonymous No.16276701]

>>16276578
Read Lacan

[Anonymous No.16276705]

>>16276443
There is a reason why your fellow lefties have been burning their statues and cursing the civilization those intellectuals created, my friend.
They really were all racists, supremacists of some sort (usually intellectual supremacists), often nationalists, prejudiced against certain religions, colonialists and more. This is an absolute fact. All of those left-wing accusations are entirely true: Western Intellectuals really were like that, whether you like it or not. Even Voltaire profited from slavery.

Saying ''But Aristotle would be a leftist today, just like me!'' is just one big cope, because no one has absolutely any idea what he would be like. In fact, we don't even know if Aristotle would have been a philosopher. I suspect he might have been a dramatist or a zoologist, rather than a philosopher. Also, if he were alive in 2020, he wouldn't be Aristotle, but some other person, because the Aristotle we know died more than 2000 years ago.

[Anonymous No.16276710]

>>16276685
Then why do big corporations side with BLM and most billionaires are against Trump?

Please answer.

[Anonymous No.16276712]

>>16276685

"fascism is capitalism in decay"-level take

please read more

[Anonymous No.16276716]

>>16276662
I know you're too ideologically entrenched to see reason, but Evola is possibly the most educated of everyone on that list.
Fluent in several languages, well versed on Eastern religions, to the degree that they publish his texts in the east, or did.
And literally rich enough to spend his entire life studying in solitude.

[Anonymous No.16276719]

>>16276710
And every celeb endorses the Democrats.

[Anonymous No.16276723]

>>16276710
Most corporations "side with BLM" in name only and in practice benefit from things that BLM stands against. Ending economic discrimination of minorities requires the types of changes (e.g. higher taxes, stricter laws against discrimination) that large corporates are definitely against. See McDonald's, Amazon, etc.

Most billionaires aren't really "against" Trump's policies, they just "prefer" Democrats because they give America a nicer face and think that they'll offer more stability. On the economic front, Republicans and Democrats don't differ much, except for a select few like Bernie and AOC.

>>16276712
Fascism is not capitalism in decay, it's capitalism in action. It's just part of the super structure used to justify its worst aspects.

[Anonymous No.16276728]

>>16276723
>cope the post

[Anonymous No.16276735]

>>16276701

Know what? I've read most of whats available of Lacan, Hegel with the exception of Logic and Rechtsph., and I've read some Žižek, notably The most sublime hysteric, his thesis, and some of the newer works like Courage. And I still have no idea why he calls himself a leftist. What he does is hegelianism, with a psychoanalitic bent via jokes as expressing the unconsciouss / doing dialectic. No big news there lol but the man has more or less admitted communism after the totalitarian experiment is over, unlike modern larpers.

[Anonymous No.16276739]

>>16276710
You serious? There's a long history of big businesses expressing sympathy for the leftist issues that pose no real threat to them, which is why they always support social issues revolving around things like race and gender but are silent about labor struggles. That way they maintain control without making enemies. If they were more openly oppressive and simply sided with the Republicans we'd see the emergence of stronger labor movements, which is what they really don't want.

[Anonymous No.16276740]

>>16276290
There is Ayn Rand

[Anonymous No.16276747]

>>16276290
How come there are no good left-wing /lit/ posts?

[Anonymous No.16276749]

>>16276662
Whoa, such a reasoned and well thought out post for such an intellectual leftist.

[Anonymous No.16276753]

>>16276299
IMBECILE!

[Anonymous No.16276758]

>>16276299
There are hundreds. John Searle for example. Most intellectuals aren't public intellectuals and don't appear in your favourite YT videos.

[Anonymous No.16276768]

>>16276728
David Harvey - a brief history of neoliberalism

[Anonymous No.16276771]

>>16276723

>Fascism is not capitalism in decay, it's capitalism in action. It's just part of the super structure used to justify its worst aspects.

No, no... read Gregor's works. That fascism is "pro-capitalism" is Julius Deutsch' take, which actually contained allusions towards irrational tendencies of the latin races. It's all very unconvincing, clashes with the historical record, as business was subordinated to the state, and its collectivism clearly subverts private property.

What is really ideological here is that Marxism can be the only, the One Revolutionary Movement, which is a quasi hegelian stance, but really isn't if you refer to, say, the bacchanalian revel.

[Anonymous No.16276776]

>>16276378
Lloyd P. Gerson

[Anonymous No.16276779]

>>16276749
I'm not a leftist. I was just correcting that anon's post.

[Anonymous No.16276793]

>>16276779
You didn't correct shit and you typed cringe like it was fact.

[Anonymous No.16276795]

>>16276735
>why he calls himself a leftist
Because he advocates to think and change the current system.

[Anonymous No.16276799]

>>16276662
>Hegel
>Not right wing
Wrong on this one.

[Anonymous No.16276812]

>>16276795
>If thousands will be hospitalized for respiratory problems, a vastly increased number of respiratory machines will be needed, and to get them, the state should directly intervene in the same way as it intervenes in conditions of war when thousands of guns are needed, and it should rely on the cooperation of other states. As in a military campaign, information should be shared and plans fully coordinated – This is all I mean by ‘communism’ needed today.

[Anonymous No.16276815]

>>16276771
I haven't read Deutsch or Gregor, but Fascism has consistently portrayed socialism as the enemy for a reason: because it jeopardizes the ability of those in power to exert and grow that power (i.e. through the aggregation of capital). In that equation, the state creates and enforces the laws (i.e. property rights) that justify capitalism and enable capitalism.

[Anonymous No.16276829]

>>16276290
>How come there are no right-wing intellectuals?
Because right wing is anti-intellectual and against academia. All these public intellectuals are resentful, impotent faggots and tools of the System.
The right wing looks up to the Warrior/Aristocrat

Still if you want le theory
Spengler, Evola, Junger, deMaistre, Schmitt, Weber, St Aquinas, Vico
Buchanan, Yockey if you want some more recent American intellectuals

[Anonymous No.16276840]

>>16276290
How come there are no intellectuals?

[Anonymous No.16276849]

4chan is cringe, you are cringe.

[Anonymous No.16276853]

>>16276299
An intellectual, in the contemporary meaning of the word, is an ideologue who roots for the side that is acceptable to root for. Any other definition is just masturbation.

[Anonymous No.16276885]

embarassing, op hasnt started with Crisis of the Modern World