A reading list for based financiers
The Story of Civilization by Will Durant and Ariel Durant
Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Age Pervert
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives by Mencius Moldbug
Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard
Democracy by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Archeofuturism by Guillaume Faye
Fanged Noumena by Nick Land
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
I might also add Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky, one of my personal favorites.
Good list though, I’ve read a handful of these but definitely will have to check out the others.
Haven’t read demons. But I would like to read more Dostoevsky. More Russian literature in general. Read the gambler and master and the msrgherita by bulgakov
The tower of Babylon poem at the beginning says everything about our society at the moment.
Thanks for this
Based? Based on what?
Just based, man
based on deez nuts
Please tell me you're referring to the Nigel Farage Big Chungus video
Naturally
Great list sir, appreciate
God and man at Yale
Academic freedom = hoax
God and Man at Yale seems could be the dumbest book imaginable. Mr. Buckley cries about how Yale should go back to its Christian roots, but if he applied to Yale back in those times he would be denied himself for simply being Catholic since Yale catered to upper class Protestants.
I know that you get a lot of flak on this forum, but I agree with this take. If the hierarchies / systems from Buckley's school of thought were ever actually applied, many modern conservatives would find themselves disenfranchised. Relating to the text specifically, I think it has a valid point that academic freedom is important and has arguably been on the decline-- but on the flip side, if you're arguing stances that deny equality between peoples, you should do so in thoughtful manner and expect pushback.
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2/10
Not even Le Camp des Saints by Raspail.
I hesitated to add it to the list but eventually thought that it was too radical and would scare away people who would have otherwise been interested in the other books.
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.
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This is a solid list, im glad there are others in finance
A few things to add if were only doing based lit
Poli-sci
- Schmitt, concept of the political
- Lewis, the art of being ruled
- Uncle Ted, the industrial society and its future
Lit
- Mishima, sun and steel, confessions of a mask
- Junger, eumeswil
- McCarthy, blood meridian
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.
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holy hell, are people on WSO really this normie?
imagine being terminally online enough to use "normie" as an insult
Much of it is alt-right focused. Stay away if you have brain cells.
Lmao name checks out. You can keep your Harry Potter and Ibram X books leave the real literature to us folks who have an IQ greater than 100
Seven Dreams series by William T. Vollmann.
Siege by James Mason
The Turner Diaries by William Pierce
Any book by Julius Evola
The Story of Civilization looks incredible but holy hell it's long with 13k+ pages. It would be maybe a 5+ years side project getting through that but you'd probably come out with a near encyclopedic understanding of occidental history.
The Durant piece that Dalio recommends is like 90 pages long and is a giga Chad summary of history.
if you're gonna read that much history, you should read multiple perspectives
looking at the rest of this list, i fucking GUARANTEE that account of history is extremely West-biased
Submission by Houellebeque is AMAZING. Really explains the problems with liberalism and how the left is unable to confront extremism when it comes from a minority group (in this case, Muslims in France). Highly highly recommend.
What about other books by Houellebecq? The Elementary Particles is considered one of his best works, and it is very revealing of the state of Western Culture. Honestly one of my favorite books overall. Platform is another good Houellebecq book that discusses Islamic extremism as well.
A glaring misreading of Soumission and of Houellebecq, in general.
Islam, extremism, minorities — these are not the objects of Houellebecq's critique. Rather, his project is levied at you and I and the current Western zeitgeist. The Islamization of Europe in Soumission is but a stand-in for any host of 'submissionist' ideologies which feast on the present's terminal crisis, that of the fate of humanism and freedom in the face of techno-capitalism and its antisocial regimentation of human life. Houellebecq does not seek to describe, predict, or assign a normative value to any given future, but rather elucidates our own self-deception and emptiness, regardless of political leaning.
I was considering reading through Story of Civilization but it's a ridiculous amount of text. Still wanted a book with a solid overview of world history, so picked up The History of the World by Roberts. It's a much more reasonable 1700 pages. Haven't gotten through it much but so far so good. Reviews on it are strong as well
Confirming this is a based list
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America against America
seconded, the one by Wang Huning right?
That’s right. Occasionally you can find a pdf floating around online.
The Managerial Revolution - James Burnham
The laundrymen - Jeffrey Robinson (more like a novel)
Trade-Based Money Laundering - John Cassara (more in detail)
Personally very interested in this topic
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:
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
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:
yea this list is obviously a list of "what young men should read to be indoctrinated into the alt right"
iirc Teddy K has some pretty high quality anti-capitalist views though
hey buddy why don't you go consult yourself to pull your head out of your ass
Also read the following:
- How to be an antiracist by Ibram Kendi
- Utopia for realist by Rutger Bregman
- Sapiens by Harari
Vademecum for dystopias.
And here comes the Drumpftard with yet another retarded post.
This is the most obvious association fallacy I have ever seen. Literally none of those books is in the list you dimwit.
And for the only book that actually is in the list, anyone who will read the quote will notice the false attribution fallacy as Hoppe does not condone anywhere in the quote the lynching of blacks.
Now Drumpftard, you midwit low-testosterone soycuck, take your sophistic normie arguments back on Reddit and let the big boys talk.
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.
A PE VP is calling me a "low-testosterone soycuck" 😂😂 sure buddy
how much do you weigh drumpfy
Warburg’s bio by Niall Ferguson
Pure ideology.
While a somewhat interesting collection, you've marred your credibility with some inclusions. These types of texts appeal to those who are discontent (rightly), distrustful (wrongly), and lack a strong sense of self (wrongly). Ironically, this last character trait is shared with those to whom many of these critiques are oriented towards. Much more impactful (and well-written) literature can be found, but as an introduction these sorts of paleo-manifestos, feral ontologies, and libertarian drivel-disguised-as-theory are not a horrendous place to start for novices, given a steady mind and a careful disposition. If you would like an alternate list, perhaps begin by reading Adorno, Horkheimer, Gadamer, Gramsci, Sohn-Rethel, or any number of actual, bona-fide critical theorists.
Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?
holy fuck are you well cultured bro, never thought I'd see even one of those names dropped on this site, ever.
Sprechen Sie deutsche?
Ew, you and OP are stupid
The only 20th century philosophy worth reading is Wilfrid Sellars, Saul Kripke & WVO Quine.
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