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[–]Jacinda[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

SS: Most (if not all) of these books will be already known to members of this sub but I always enjoy seeing other people's reading lists so I thought I would share.

I am intending to read more this year so having a "syllabus" logically laid out like this is also useful.

For those interested u/DisidentHR has a Keith Woods' book club on Goodreads.

The original resource list from the r/DebateAltRight can be found here:

Searching the sub using "book", "read" or "reading" also turns up a number of recommendations.

[–]Jacinda[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Last time I posted the r/DebateAltRight reading list someone left this comment.


That was a weird list. I didn't like the apparent anti Jewish section, and considered alongside the green and nationalist stuff, it aligned oddly with Hitler and the Christchurch shooter. Aside from that stuff, there were quite a few good books there but there was some heavy reading (Neitzsche, Schopenhauer) that most people wouldn't get through. Let me suggest a much quicker and easier read.

If you want another way to be dissident and go against the woke flow, try reading GK Chesterton. He was an incredibly perceptive person and even though he wrote in the early 20th Century, he seemed to nail the issues of today. Although his style can be difficult to get into, his books are quite short reads. I recommend starting with Orthodoxy, its in the public domain as text and audio, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJIgLaxLM8. Chesterton was a Christian, but I think that anyone could appreciate his writing regardless of their religious views. For example, the Atheist Marxist philosopher Slavoj Zizek admires and quotes Chesterton, despite having very different beliefs. There is a Catholic Chesterton Society in the US. Any writer with a fan base as diverse as this is worth a look.

One of Chesterton's insights is the way that Christianity balances the virtues. Most people recognise virtues, such as being kind or standing your ground. But those virtues taken to extreme, are bad. Chesterton shows the remarkable balance of virtues in Christianity. He says that the modern world has not abandoned the virtues of Christianity, but it has let the virtues run wild and out of proportion. The woke religion is an example of this.

The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation), it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That was a weird list. I didn't like the apparent anti Jewish section

A philo-semitic Christian, what a surprise

He says that the modern world has not abandoned the virtues of Christianity, but it has let the virtues run wild and out of proportion.

Christian virtues were never good and wreaked havoc in Europe ever since Theodosius. There was a brief respite from that for a few centuries and now the same old Jewish tricks are back in a new wrapper.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Libertarian "right" is fake and gay.

[–]nordmannenLegionnaire 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This, libertarians are not on our side.

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    [–]Jacinda[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I thought that was strange as well. You will have to take it up with the original creator of the list

    [–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Foucalt's Pendulum in the Reactionary section?

    That made me laugh. It's been a while since I read it but there was nothing reactionary or right wing in the book as far as I recall. Ecco is very liberal personally as far as I know though he sometimes writes about situations which might appeal to reactionaries like in The Name Of The Rose.

    I'll have to read it again.

    Also lol at 'I'm going to make Kristallnacht look like a town fair.'

    [–]Nombre27 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    [–]Jacinda[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Thanks. They are fun to browse through (as well as being a valuable resource).

    [–]nordmannenLegionnaire 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Orwell is garbage.