A reading list for based financiers

The Story of Civilization by Will Durant and Ariel Durant

durant & durant

Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Age Pervert

Bap bam

Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger

storm of steel

Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

LF céline

The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler

spengler

Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer

schopenhauer

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

nietzs

The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer

iliad

An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives by Mencius Moldbug

open letter

Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard

rothbard

Democracy by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

hoppe

Submission by Michel Houellebecq

submission h

The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

debord

Archeofuturism by Guillaume Faye

faye

Fanged Noumena by Nick Land

fanged noumena

Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher 

mark fisher

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It's a novel. In terms of ideological content, it's far less radical than BAP or Spengler.

Noteworthy to mention, the huge amount of content on the right about decline and civilization collapse. It's fine and dandy to shit on liberals as the cause of it, but conservatives really struggle to put forward something to be optimistic about, an idea of society to believe in. It's like Christianity but without redemption and paradise at the end.

Liberals on the other hand do an amazing work at promoting infantile, simplistic visions for the future, obscuring the details and dishonestly covering up problems.

Never discuss with idiots, first they drag you at their level, then they beat you with experience.
 

is this more of a political book list? wasn't expecting stuff like intelligent investor or cliche books but more of investor mindset books and think differently than the heard. 

 

Many of the books listed here are written by far-right or Neo-Nazi authors and advocate for violence. 

Here's a quote from Siege, written by a Neo-Nazi:

“Those of you with backgrounds similar to mine in the American National Socialist Movement will be among the first to sadly admit that it was indeed a damnable shame that Hitler did not, in fact, kill at least six million Jews during the War.”

Industrial Society and its Future was written by Ted Kaczynski, the notorious terrorist known as the Unabomber

Les Camp De Saints is another white nationalist novel about a migrant invasion.  Here's a quote

[The book repeatedly characterizes non-whites as sexual carnivores, as in this scene aboard the refugee fleet that is heading for Europe.] But in time, very slowly, the flesh [aboard the ships] began to seethe. ... Perhaps it was the heat... . Most of all, the natural drive of a people who never found sex to be sin. ... Everywhere, a mass of hands and mouths, of phalluses and rumps. ... Young boys, passed from hand to hand. Young girls, barely ripe ... waking to the silent play of eager lips. ... Men with women, men with men, women with women, men with children... . And so, in a welter of dung and debauch — and hope as well — the Last Chance Armada pushed on toward the West.

From Democracy, the God that Failed, author Hans Herman Hoppe longs for the bad old days when we could lynch blacks if they went to the wrong town after sunset:

Instead, one would be on the right path toward restoring the freedom of association and exclusion implied in the institution of private property, if only towns and villages could and would do what they did as a matter of course until well into the nineteenth century in Europe and the United States. There would be signs regarding entrance requirements to the town … (for example, no beggars, bums, or homeless, but also no homosexuals, drug users, Jews, Moslems, Germans or Zulus).

 
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Those books were recommended by other posters in the thread.  The original poster also endorsed Les Camp De Saints but was worried it would scare away normal people.  

The 19th century towns in the US that banned or discriminated against black people, which he clearly endorses, did so with a threat of violence.  They didn't just tell black people to go on their merry way and they complied.  Hoppe never explains what this "physical removal" is, but history has shown that this has never been peaceful.

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