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Post books that will help a man become the great dictator of the 2000s.
The 1800s had Napoleon.
The 1900s had Hitler.
They didn't create their ideas out of thin air. They learned and read about ideas created by others before them, and used those theses to craft their own personal ideology.
I'm sick of the bland, unchanging world I live in today. I want to learn how to change it. Please show me, /lit/.

>> No.18483132

>>18483096
Unironically have sex (you incel), you won't want revolution anymore.

>> No.18483135

All you need to do is have your monarch deposed (with or without their head) and then put a bunch of incompetents in charge for a while

>> No.18483139

>>18483096
Books will not help you become a dictator

>> No.18483146
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>>18483096
>His intellectual curiosity was limitless. He fairly lived on the writings of the most diverse authors, and nothing was too complex for his comprehension.

>He had a deep knowledge and understanding of Buddha, Confucius and Jesus Christ, as well as Luther, Calvin or Savonarola; of literary giants such as Dante, Schiller, Shakespeare, Goethe; and analytical writers such as Renan and Gobineau, Chamberlain and Sorel.

>He had trained himself in philosophy by studying Aristotle and Plato. Although the latter did not fit into his system, Hitler was nevertheless able to extract what he deemed of value. He could quote entire paragraphs of Schopenhauer from memory, and for a long time carried a pocket edition of Schopenhauer with him. Nietzsche taught him much about willpower.

>His thirst for knowledge was unquenchable. He spent hundreds of hours studying the works of Tacitus and Mommsen, military strategists like Clausewitz, or empire builders like Bismarck. Nothing escaped him: world history or the history of civilizations, the study of the Bible and the Talmud, Thomistic philosophy and all the masterpieces of Homer, Sophocles, Horace, Ovid, Titus Livius and Cicero. He knew Julian the Apostate as if he had been his contemporary.

>His knowledge also extended to mechanics. He knew how engines worked; he understood the ballistics of various weapons; and he astonished the best medical scientists with his knowledge of medicine and biology. The universality of Hitler's knowledge may surprise or displease those unaware of it, but it is nonetheless a historical fact: Hitler was one of the most cultivated men of the 20th century. A thousand times more so than Churchill, an intellectual mediocrity; or than Pierre Laval, with his mere cursory knowledge of history; or than Roosevelt; or Eisenhower, who never got beyond detective novels.

>> No.18483156

>>18483096
Start with The Book of Five Rings.
7 Habits and How to Win Friends are required. As is Machiavelli, Meditations and Ben Franklin's Autobiography.
>>18483132
>t. Has no goal, drive, vision or sex

>> No.18483166

>>18483139
You could say that about anything, and you would still be wrong.

>> No.18483467

>>18483096
The Prince is meant to shit on dictatorships, but it still hands out good advice on how to run a dictatorship.