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School me, /lit/. What are the most essential lefty books? I mean both classics and contemporary works. I'm a reactionary and I want to learn more about the other side

>> No.7343132

Karl Marx - Das Kapital

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Proudhon

http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/proudhon/sp001863.html

Michel Foucault

https://viewpointmag.com/2012/09/12/towards-a-socialist-art-of-government-michel-foucaults-the-mesh-of-power/

>> No.7343152

Orientalism is a good starting point.

Get ready to fall asleep though, all leftist literature is not known for being easy to read.

>> No.7343158

>>7343130
critical theory today. simple and itll get you thinking like a tumblr bitch, but with much more experience.

>> No.7343166

>>7343130
Why?
You're already on the RIGHT SIDE

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>>7343158
>>7343130

Hey OP, this anon is right, but crit theory can sometimes be terribly sad and terribly banal, so I would recc. the Yale OpenCourse video series wherein Dr. Paul Fry teaches a semester worth of Intro to Literary Theory. If you can't do the work of finding that on YT, just be yourself, don't change, and live in quiet-ignorance.

Kisses,
Grisha

>> No.7344342

>>7343144
>Michel Foucault
It's so strange how admired this guy is. He lied about history, stole some ideas from Nietszche and in general lived the life of a lazy caricature by the right. He was the trustafarian that made it.

>> No.7344351

Nietzsche

not even kidding. Ignore what his sister did to that poor man's work

>> No.7344357

>>7344351
Although he was a not a traditional conservative Nietzsche was intensely anti-egalitarian and elitist. I don't think it's good to advise him to someone looking for "essential" lefty books. Unambiguous leftist books such as Das Kapital fit better.

>> No.7344359

>>7344342
And in the later part of his life he was lured by neo-liberalism. Really not somebody to recommend for someone looking for orthodox leftists.

>> No.7344361

>>7344357
Except Capital is huge and dull, better to recommend the manifesto.

>> No.7344367

>>7344361
If you want a bite sized Capital then I'd recommend Wage Labour and Capital over the Manifesto.

>> No.7344376

>>7344361
you worthless retard

>> No.7344391

>>7344357
>intensely anti-egalitarian and elitist
I think you need to read Nietzsche again

>> No.7344407

Alinsky is based but he doesn't really give his opinions so much as advice on organization. Still, he's a conservative bogeyman, so he's worth checking out.

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>>7343130
>>>/pol/
>>>/his/
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