How have you enriched your knowledge today? You're not a mindless drone whose opinions are cucked by the mainstream media are you?
Post recent reads and enlightening information. Critiquing works you dislike also welcome.
Just finished pic related. Expected leftist propaganda but pleasantly surprised that wasn't the case. Milton Friedman can rot in hell and all the deluded cucks who supports unfettered free markets can go with him.
>>74748899
"im smart and dont fall for memes"
"wow capitalism is a disaster this book told me all about it"
>>74749030
>What is reading comprehension
>Notice I said capitalism without controls is bad
Enjoy your debt. Thank the IMF and Friedman for that you cuck.
>Klein
Makes it very clear why these power politician families are so despised. Anyone but a Bush or a Clinton.
last political book i read was camp 14, it was pretty fucked up. i recommend the book everyone interested in north korea.
The only book I read is the bible.
>>74749709
>Three generations of punishment
Wow that's so fucked up I wouldn't wish that even on my enemy.
>>74749905
one of the most fucked up things is that if one family member suicides his whole family is seen as tratoirs to the führer and will be treated accordingly
Damn... really makes you think...
/pol/ BTFO?
>>74748899
You might like this one. Long, but exhaustive history.
>>74750413
Plato's Republic was the most National Socialist book of antiquity. Forced socialisation of the means of production + betterment of the national stock via eugenics. Ruled over by a philosopher-king council.
>>74749030
That's not what the book claims. It claims that there are entities, some of which are governments but many are not, which use disasters and social upheaval as an opportunity to sneak in change that those it is imposed on wouldn't agree to. One example would be Scientologists flooding into a disaster area to convert people into their cult while they are at their weakest.
>>74749995
Patrician book. I fear that Western civilization is on the decline though, so not as optimistic as the author.
>>74751004
This. Plato was the first red pill.
>>74748899
Milton Friedman is the reason why Chile is experiencing such economic success right now, whereas the enlightened politik of Klein is bearing its many great virtues for the Venezuelan economy.
Low taxes, no taxes -- these are good things. Freedom is GOOD. Fucking brown people shit up this board all the time.
>>74751004
>>74751004
How is that nationalist socialist when pretty much all the rest of the States back then (including like 90% of the Greek city-states) had Monarchies whose entire self-explanatory defense was along the lines of the monarch knowing what's best and being benevolent. Even in one of his Alcibiades dialogues (which are attributed to him but authorship isn't exactly agreed upon by scholars) Socrates shines an ideal light on how the Princes of the Persian kings are groom and disciplined by various specialized tutors and teachers dedicated to him at a very young age in order to know how to govern the people which is better system for preparing the next leader of State than the Athenian Democracy one where the best orator and popular figure could just be the de-facto head of state by being charming enough.
His Republic was Conservative considering he wrote it in Democratic Athens, but it wasn't really different from the forms of States back-then, he only was more detailed and ideal with how the society should be.
>>74752097
The poor (99%) lives on the same level of any other spic shithole
>>74752097
>Venezuela and Chile
>not both third world countries
>mainstream media tells me Chile is successful because of muh free markets so it must be true!
http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Chile/Venezuela/Economy
>>74748899
I'm working through a few books now, On War (even though the editor wrote a 70 page introduction subtly shitting on Clausewitz, even using a variant of current year argument), Democracy in America and one of Jim Webb's books.
BASED
>>74748899
/pol/ related books I've read this year:
>Crippled America
It was essentially just a Trump speech
>Tragedy and Hope, a History of the World in Our Time
Explains why western civilization was on top for so long.
>Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War
Blames Churchill for WW1 and claims that WW2 was an inevitable result of Versallis
>Humans Need Not Apply
About the looming Automation Age
>The Great Beanie Baby Bubble
Not so /pol/ but gives an interesting insight into speculative bubbles
That's it for /pol/ books, I think.
>>74755418
>Blames Churchill for WWI
I'm curious, how?
>>74748899
Buy that man a Trump hat
>>74748899
This book was interesting but you have to be very skeptical while reading it, there are many truths with some lies slipped in.
>Post recent reads and enlightening information
I finally figured out China
Their entire culture revolves around doing the bare minimum amount of work or steal an idea or a product and getting away with it.
>>74756280
To be honest the later chapters were socialist revisionism, but the chapter on Iraq and Hurricane Katrina were quite persuasive.
I'm surprised pic related doesn't get more exposure in this board. It revolves around the nature vs. nurture debate, and puts forward strong arguments for the nature case. The chapter on gender basically destroys third-wave feminism, and the entire book is a constant erosion of left-wing myths. Not very edgy for this board (Pinker does not believe in racial differences and it's pretty obvious he is a liberal) but for a moderate book it's really red-pilled.
>>74748899
Er ist wieder da ("Look Who's Back") is actually a great satirical novel. Poking at how obsessed Western society has become with social media and image. It's in English on Amazon for pretty cheap.
Been looking for a book about the tactics and/or strategies used during WW2. Any recommendations?
I've watched The Sword and the Crescent (full HD) 4 hour documentary which proves why Islam a shit.
>>74748899
>Naomi Klein
Aren't globalist Jewish lies illegal in your Muslim country? Isn't that supposed to be the ONE good thing about you people?
>>74756997
>Thinks that 19th and early 20th century people weren't obsessed with image
Fuck you're dumb.
>>74757847
Deluded cuck. Implying pic related wasn't the Godfather of Jews.
>>74757444
most of the books I read about WWII are about individual battles or campaigns, and definitely first hand accounts, like Don Burgett's, Siegfried Knappe, Hans von Luck and Georg Grossjohann
All memes aside, this really made me think
>>74748899
Silly OP! /pol/ doesn't read.
>>74758861
They're both pretty bad, desu. One was a capitalist neo-con, the other is a liberal anti-capitalist, neither ideology has served us well.
Can anyone recommend a good book on egyptian history? I'm really curious on the changing demographics of the civilization throughout its existence.
>>74759630
>based Milton
>neocon
>>74759630
I can forgive one for simply writing a book. I can't forgive the other for literally creating the blueprints to fuck over the entire middle class of the Western hemisphere.
>>74760017
>Based
>Ethnicity : Jewish
My fucking sides.
written by a CIA case agent working on Iran for 30 years. the book destroys the fox news narrative on iran and has been prophetic since it was written 7 years ago
>>74748899
The book seriously misrepresented Friedman's views on shock therapy. Naomi Klein seriously has no idea what she was talking about, linking some events with others. I am not defending Friedman though, because he was wrong on some ideas, and had too much faith in free markets, but fuck Naomi Klein too.
Can anyone recommend a book on the global financial system, fiat currency and how fucked we'll all be when the next true crash occurs?
>>74763139
no because this is bullshit fear mongering.
required reading
>>74758158
>implying social media hasn't made the problem 1000x worse due to instant gratification
gtfo faggot.
ANTIFRAGILE
Solid book, lots of stats concepts that most people just don't really get
Advocates for bottom-up government and changes in fundamental thinking re: probability
>>74763751
leftist faggot
>>74763856
??
He literally advocates for libertarian concepts and use of heuristic based analysis, finding "what works" rather than the mathematical optimization, because what works usually has the ability to bounce back.
Bottom up government is LITERALLY the opposite of the current federal government (at least in america) and advocates for a more swiss style government where municipalities have a lot more power over their sector and the federal government has less power.
Also kill yourself.
>>74760134
>>Based
>>Ethnicity : Jewish
>My fucking sides.
Says the guy reading Naomi Klein. What do you think her ethnicity is?
The Turner Diaries. A lot of decent information on how to strategize as a terrorist organization, plus a lot of political philosophy.
>>74748899
Mein führer
>>74757847
>Poland
>Muslim
>>74766063
>Not knowing the difference between Indonesia and Poland
Dude... It's not like we don't have enough posters from both countries for you to be able to recognize their flags by now...
>>74766146
I'll see myself out
>>74765165
Claiming Friedman was any kind of based is retarded considering they are both Jews serving an agenda. However one has been proven to be remarkably worse for the American people, though, I'll let you guess which one.
>>74766063
not sure if bait or retarded
>>74766776
The only Jews I think are based, outside of Israel, are those who are NOT involved in any kind of politics. I honestly can't think of more than one or two Jewish politicians I admire: most are commies or commie-sympathizers, and in the USA also some Zionists who should fuck off to Israel.
There's nothing that makes me sadder than /pol/ going on about how some globalist Jew is "based" because they said something against capitalism or against Israel, you know, while simultaneously yelling "gas the kikes race war now."
Go read some Isaac Asimov or something, if you're into science-fiction.
>>74765627
thats the most stupid book you could ever read
Currently reading, definetly worthy if you want to know how communism works.
