/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20118446]

Books recommended by President Xi :
And what are the best books on how to gain power by your opinion ?

[Anonymous No.20118955]

>>20118446
Westoid cucks have lost, Xi is a based and /lit/pilled high IQ benevolent dictator while sleepy Joe is a dementia ridden boomer that can't string two coherent sentences together. It's over.

[Anonymous No.20118972]

Surprised Carl Schmitt isn't on that list, but I guess he leaves the essential parts of politics up to Wang Huning.

[Anonymous No.20118982]

>>20118955
Macron got a 20/20 in his philo (!) baccalauréat, which is practically unheard of

[Anonymous No.20118992]

>>20118446
What is this, an image for ants?

[Anonymous No.20118994]

>>20118982
A certain will-be-unnamed House rep in the United States did her PhD on the state of exception too, which means she's a very intelligent political scientist, and yet she's a braindead lib progressive in actual practical politics. Just like Macron.

It just goes to show that university education is about social mobility first, and knowledge second or third, or fourth or fifth.

[Anonymous No.20119056]

>>20118982
wow! doesn't change the fact that he's a lib

[Anonymous No.20119080]

>>20118446

If you want to know what type of person you need to be to amass power, read pic related.

[Anonymous No.20119164]

>>20118955
kys logo, but you are right

[Anonymous No.20119173]

>>20118994
>A certain will-be-unnamed House rep in the United States
Why not lol? Her name is kino

[Anonymous No.20119181]

>>20118982
>20/20 in his philo (!) baccalauréat
I thought that they weren’t allowed to give out perfect scores in France

[Anonymous No.20119196]

>>20119173
I didn't want to get accused of shilling.

[Anonymous No.20119225]

>>20119181
no they are, it's just incredibly difficult to get a perfect score. even 18/20 is an insane achievement

[Anonymous No.20119250]

>>20118955
wow thanks alien collaborator but no human asked your opinion

[Anonymous No.20119343]

>>20118446
>best books on how to gain power

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.20119350]

>>20118982
bought and paid for like any jinshi

[Anonymous No.20119374]

>>20118446
Has Putin released a book list?

[Anonymous No.20119375]

>>20119080
my country don't sell this book . Where can i find the pdf online?

[Anonymous No.20119396]

>>20119350
I'm only making this post to inform you that your opinions mean nothing to me, whether they agree with me or not

[Anonymous No.20119439]

>>20119080
An unprincipled piece of shit? about right.

[Anonymous No.20119443]

>>20118446
These are all so boring, not bad, mind you, just it's obvious some Chinese agency was given the task to come up with this list.
I wonder what Xi really reads.

[Anonymous No.20119599]

>>20118446
Based beyond belief

[Anonymous No.20119951]

>>20119439
You must be mad that lyndon cucked deep south democrats so hard they all became Republicans

[Anonymous No.20120140]

>>20119374
Harry Potter, apparently.

[Anonymous No.20120146]

>>20119443
Probably some ancient texts reserved only for rulers.

[Anonymous No.20120160]

>>20118955
Losing is a social construct

[Anonymous No.20120164]

>>20118994
College should be destroyed

[Anonymous No.20120166]

Also women aren't likely read the likes of Carl Schmitt and get anything useful out of it

[Anonymous No.20120169]

>Marxists destroy the West
>Blame capitalism
Bad faith: the belief system

[Anonymous No.20120202]

Why does everyone regard Shakespeare so highly? Not trying to be contrarian, I just haven't reached that level yet

[Anonymous No.20120825]

>>20118955
>Surprised Carl Schmitt isn't on that list, but I guess he leaves the essential parts of politics up to Wang Huning.
From what I've read about Chinese interest in Schmitt (which is considerable in the academies), it's mostly as a way of exploring Western liberal democratic political systems, as a lot of Schmitt's writings was focused on criticizing the various shortcomings of them. What's fairly unique about Schmitt, unlike a lot of Western theorists writing about liberalism, is that he doesn't try to justify it or by implication criticize illiberal systems, which is obviously attractive to Chinese intellectuals.

And I'm sure you know this already, but for Schmitt, the two most important entities within a democratic state are the state itself and the leader of that state. He argues that protecting the state is the ultimate goal, and this responsibility lies in the sovereign. And the sovereign is the person who decides what he terms "the state of exception" -- the moment at which the sovereign choose to move outside the rule of law in order to protect the state. This is clearly fairly autocratic, but he conceives of this type of autocracy existing within and even superseding a democratic state. Like, if you actually tried to overthrow the U.S. government in a serious way that posed an existential threat to the state, the "rule of law" would be suspended, so what Schmitt is describing is in operation in Western liberal societies.

His other key contribution is "the concept of the political" which broadly describes the idea that "politics" extends to anything in which the friend/enemy distinction exists. That's almost common sense today, but you can generally read it justify the state acting in all realms, because the state has authority over the political, and the political is defined by conflict, not context.

Both these ideas are broadly appealing to China because they promote the idea that protecting the state itself is the most important goal; that a single leader has essentially unlimited authority to accomplish this goal; and the state is justified in using its authority in any aspect in which "politics" can exist, where politics is very broadly defined. So it provides an academic and even logical framework to justify a fairly undemocratic "democratic" state.

[Anonymous No.20120859]

>>20118994
>A certain will-be-unnamed House rep in the United States did her PhD on the state of exception too, which means she's a very intelligent political scientist, and yet she's a braindead lib progressive in actual practical politics. Just like Macron.
I was thinking of Justin Trudeau cracking down on the trucks. "Buh... buh... I thought he was a pussy who would never activate the state of exception." But any sovereign would do that.

[Anonymous No.20121905]

>>20119080
this. shadow possibly gay older men. fake interest in whatever sport they're into. get your wife to flirt with straight older men. talk to all the page boys and learn everything about everyone. keep recipts. never shut the fuck up when someone is asking something of you. skinny dip and use you dick as a negotiating tool. give orders with the toilet door wide open. and perhaps most important of all:
>look at a man's hands and eyes. what does he do when he stops talking

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[Anonymous No.20122215]

>>20118994
I have been doing some experiments while in university and have noticed that when I write from a liberal perspective, regardless of how shitty or rushed the essay is, I'm guaranteed to achieve high grades. If I write what I actually believe, and take considerable time doing so, I will never get above 70.

Philosophy is the only class that I can get away with experimentation. I wrote an essay that basically justified genocide and the feedback was surprisingly positive.

[Anonymous No.20122515]

>>20118446
>the republic
based

[Anonymous No.20122589]

>>20119374
Apparently there's some books he recomended during interviews and they were compiled by a certain website: http://favobooks.com/politicians/86-vladimir-putin-reads.html

[Anonymous No.20122617]

>>20120169
>>Marxists destroy the West
Marxists exist both as a reaction to the liberal democratic geist and is also subsumed by it. You are retarded.