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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I'll go first: I'm currently in the middle of In His Own Words from Antelope Hill, and I can already say that it's easily one of the best books I've ever read. It's far more readable than Mein Kampf.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

What impedes the readability of Mein Kampf for you? Is it the requirement to be familiar with history and the social conditions of 20th century Vienna? Or does it have to do with Hitler's literary style? For my part, I find his manifesto very clear and easy to jump into. A thousand lessons to learn from it.

There are admittedly some challenging sections, such as where he says Marxism substitutes the aristocratic principle, but I think that has to do with insufficient translation work. Thomas Dalton seems to have produced a faithful rendition. And you can't really go wrong with the Stalag Edition. Probably the best way to read it would be to pick up an interlinear version or have the German version opened side-by-side with an English translation.

Granted, his speeches are inspiring and are more suited for propaganda videos. But the initial religious/devotional phase eventually wears off for most people. One must also display sufficient ambition to follow his lead. Do recall that Italians only appreciated Mussolini from sentimentality.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's hard to find a good translation. I have the Manheim version, but the Dalton is supposed to be the best.

[–]bug-in-recovery 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It is, I can send it if you'd like it.

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

Thanks, but I already found the PDF on Archive. I might buy a physical copy from National Alliance, I have a few of their books. Including the version of Lightning and the Sun that I've only recently realized is very much abridged. I do wonder what people think of the NA and Pierce, and why Pierce's own writings are so fedposty.

[–]Nombre27 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you want to better understand Pierce, check out Griffin's book on him Fame of a Dead Man's Deeds.

I think he was from a previous generation that strongly admired the founding fathers and thought that a racial revolution akin to the American Revolution was possible and so violence was on the table with respect to achieving that goal just as it was in the American Revolution.

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Nothing really, I read like 200 pages of Discourses on Livy months ago and haven't read anything since. I'm taking the illiterati pill.

[–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Same unfortunately. Lots of work related reading for me right now so I can't read as much for fun. I've ordered a few books I'm excited about though. Fame of Dead Man's Deeds, Gates of Fire and Blood Meridian are on the top of my reading stack.

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

Practical Idealism by Richard von Coudenhove Kalergi. Lots of great observations and a great analysis, but the conclusions, due to him being a spiritual jew, are totally inverted.

I fell behind on reading though, I started reading this in March or something and from then I don't have the will to read.

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

Arguably, his ideological work An Idea Conquers the World is more important for study and revisionist narratives. Kalergi excuses both H. S. Chamberlain and Gobineau*, distinguishing their racialism from anti-Semitism. He actually met Chamberlain at Bayreuth and had the opportunity to study him closely. I wouldn't be surprised if Kalergi made a similar gesture on behalf of Wagner (he was on good terms with Cosima and her family). He was also an admirer of Nietzsche and claimed him as one of the early pioneers of Pan-Europeanism. He only omitted Luther, but Kalergi distinguished Hitler's anti-Semitism from the traditional religious hatred. Thus, Kalergi has inadvertently furnished arguments against the Sonderweg myth, absolving them of blame for Hitler.

Curiously, he dated Hitler's war "against" Europe from 1919 (signing of Treaty of Versailles), as opposed to 1933 (rise to power) so he didn't succumb to the fixation on details one finds in conventional historians. In this light, it'd be appropriate for Christians to portray Jesus' incarnation as a lifelong struggle rather than starting from his last few years or his death.

And his work Anti-Semitism Throughout the Ages, while full of misleading apologist arguments, is probably pure dynamite in the right hands. At one point, he practically indicts the Western democracies, portraying their "help" rendered to Jews as a largely unsympathetic gesture (which Hitler himself drew attention to in his January 30, 1939 speech) and instead characterizes it as a feeble protest against Hitler's anti-Semitism. Today we see a similar spectacle occurring with Ukraine and Russia.

As for his claim in Practical Idealism about the artificial selection process for future Jewish leadership, there are actually good grounds for his assertion. It's just a question of whether it will be Zionism or (Aryan) humanism which wins the struggle for the Jewish "soul" (see Dietrich Eckart's The Earth-Centered Jew Lacks a Soul). Kalergi's personal list of meritorious Jews blurs the line between the two factions of Jewish greatness (material/civilizational vs spiritual/cultural expansionism).

Of course, Kalergi inclined towards Zionism, and his father naively believed Jews could be assimilated into the West without renouncing their traditional religious/pragmatic values. If one regards a people as an enemy of Nature, one must either convert or destroy them. (Rousseau) They cannot possibly live at peace with them and arrive at a mutual understanding.

*both of whom were regarded by Hitler as mandatory reading for participating in debates on the racial question

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

I thought that there wasn't an English edition of this available.

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

Yes it is, you can also check out @WhiteAlexandriasLibrary on Telegram, they have audiobook version of it.

[–]JuliusCaesar225Nationalist + Socialist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Count of Monte Cristo and then a bunch of non fiction.

[–]VraiBleuScots Protestant, Ulster Loyalist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

CoMC is a real treat.

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    [–]MarkimusNational Socialist 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

    If anyone has some tips for someone looking to start reading Evola with minimal prior background I’ll be happy to hear them

    Depends what you're interested in. Metaphysics of War, Men Among the Ruins, and Revolt Against the Modern world give you the heroic philosophy and political stuff. If you're more interested in religious stuff I don't know because I haven't read much of it. Revolt would be the starting point though as it's his most comprehensive and like foundational work that everything else relates to. I'd just read the other 2 I mentioned before it because they're less complicated.

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

      You are welcome. Don't worry about Spengler or Nietzsche either, they are not necessary for reading Evola.

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

      [–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      If anyone has some tips for someone looking to start reading Evola with minimal prior background I’ll be happy to hear them

      Meditations on the Peaks is pretty digestible and based af but not really relevant to his opus in general, and Metaphysics of War is good TLDR of Evola's overall thing.

      [–]JuliusCaesar225Nationalist + Socialist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Read "Imperium" by Francis Parker Yockey if you haven't.

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

      Markimus is correct - Evola writes on many different topics, so it really depends on what interests you most. Personally, I think his essay collections are the gentlest introduction to his thought, but if you are interested in religion or Buddhism, for example, you could start with the Doctrine of Awakening, or if you like another topic, you could start with that.

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

      HA I liked just because of writing style/aesthetic but it doesn't have any substance at all.

      With Evola I might be alone on this but I prefer his stuff on mythology and religion much more to his more political works. This has a good overview of all of his works but you don't necessarily need to follow the order

      [–]Nombre27 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Metaphysics of War and Meditation on the Peaks can be summarized as combat/mountain climbing are a rite of passage for the proper development of men. The importance of combat is quite obvious, mountain climbing (or other) is about the Faustian experience of pushing yourself in activity where you may die, just as in combat. Other activities that overlap might be other climbing (rock, tree, etc.), scuba diving, a bushcraft expedition, white water rafting, etc.

      There's actually a Duke of Edinborough award that kind of revolves around the sort of preparation that is necessary for a mountain climb or other expedition.

      https://www.dukeofed.org/our-program/participate/how-the-award-works/

      Think of a noble character trait and an activity that best allows you to practice that trait.

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

      I haven't read anything in a while ngl, I'm trying to read Al-Biruni's historical work but it's very dense and I doubt I'll finish it

      [–]Blackbrownfreestuff 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (17 children)

      Starship Troopers, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and Maniac Magee.

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

      Based

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

      Joanne Rowling is a radical transphobe, so I figured I'd give it a read to get a look into her hate filled nazi mind.

      [–]JuliusCaesar225Nationalist + Socialist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

      Funny that you say that, even though I didn't list it in my comment because many would consider it cringe I am also reading Harry Potter. I remember reading up until the 5th book when I was a kid then losing interest. Suddenly I had the urge to read the books again and finish them.

      [–]Blackbrownfreestuff 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

      So far I haven't read anything degenerate or anti-white in it. Not sure what would be cringe about it.

      [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

      Just that it's written at an elementary school reading level. And that before the last few years, its biggest fans were shitlib cat ladies.

      [–]MarkimusNational Socialist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

      Ahab has a particular hatred of it because it turned girls into hermoine-wannabe radical individualist girlboss corporate slave types according to him. I wasn't old enough to see a before and after but I can believe it.

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

      Roger Scruton also has a critique of Harry Potter, although I don't remember exactly what his problem with it was.

      [–]MarkimusNational Socialist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

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

      Yes, that'd be it. He might have more stuff on this topic, but I am not sure.

      [–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

      Ahab

      Do you know what happened to this guy? He use to stream like once a month and it was easily my favorite listen in the dissident space at the time. If he still releasing content?

      [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

      I don't know if he got doxxed or if it's just cause of NJP, but he started doing stuff under his actual name (Warren Balogh). He replaced Allsup on FTN and also has a show with Mike.

      [–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

      Ok. Thanks for the clarification. I always thought that Ahab was Warren! He did such a great job in that format. Just him. About 1-2 hours. Heavily leaning on looking back at nat soc history and figures was my favorite part.

      I'm so disconnected for NJP content right now. I might just have to break down and buy a membership. I have my issues with NJP but there are some really intelligent and well read guys that I have a lot of respect for. I wish they'd do some more content outside their paywall so they can grow again. Feels like they are getting a bit stagnant. Maybe they need to look at leadership and make some changes?

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

      I might just have to break down and buy a membership.

      It's not essential. I've always been a freefag, I don't completely trust Mike with my information but I value his perspective. I do trust Striker and to a lesser extent Warren (I haven't listened to much of his content myself but it doesn't seem like anyone has anything bad to say about him).

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

      I've always been a freefag, I don't completely trust Mike with my information

      Same (for freefagging part, I trust Mike completely), but you can buy subscription completely anonymously though, right?

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

      written at an elementary school reading level

      If I'm reading for entertainment, I have no interest in literary nonsense. If you can't write in plain english that I can easily understand, then fuck off.

      Secondly, It's not really more or less difficult to read than adult popular novelists, like john grisham or michael crichton. The only difference is the plot and characters are meant to appeal more to children. For example, John Griaham's the pelican brief is written simple enough for a 5th grader to read, but it has lawyers and sex. A lot of popular adult novels are just elementary school reading level books with adult characters.

      [–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      Try Lonesome Dove. Not the most poetic writer. You could even call him utilitarian, but the story flow and the character development and arc is really powerful. Probably one of my favorite novels.

      [–]casparvoneverecBig tiddy respecter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      I read Anatoly Karlin's Et in Arcadia Ego yesterday