Reading thread: What books are some must reads?

I read it, basically what is says is "white ppl got lucky."

I was taught that shit in high school it was awful.

Obviously, but it's good to form arguments based on that garbage. You could argue that since whites didn't even know blacks existed until the, what, 15th century? You should say around that time whites were building intricate and beautiful architecture and all Africa did was stack three rocks on top of each other, showing a big power gap. Not to mention the Aztec Empire at their height was during the fucking Renaissance

>it's always good to take a shit on a pee stain to find a better way to clean it

Very interesting historical perspectives. Added bonus, it specifically BTFOs Marxism, by pointing out Marxism's linear view of history and how it's complete garbage.

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>Straw man

Take the Tedpill

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Meme

This looks good

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lmao

Fareed Zakharia's "Post American World", unironically.

He's a CNN anchor, but guests he attract are pretty A+ list and the book is their level.

Former Gilet Jaune protester here. Macron made a lot of good points. I’ve been talking to my family and friends, and we all pretty much agree it’s time to move on. Things will get better; we just have to trust in the government. I'm convinced and very happy with his proposals. It's time to stop the protests, go back to work and heal this nation.

Book dump. I did not compile these
inb4 muh pdf

JQ - mega.co.nz/#F!UdxSVLJB!bgBwqzuFIV3z0HvCswA0dQ

Religion, Magick, Occult - mega.co.nz/#F!AE5yjIqB!y7Vdxdb5pbNsi2O3zyq9KQ!cE5yWZoI

General - mega.co.nz/#F!LotEVRxT!YE-YrG6SZ54nJqltrYN8Nw

Psyops - mega.co.nz/#F!m00SjRRA!R_I9wzUTEhSN6spP35TyZg

Jow Forums books - mega.co.nz/#F!eMs1HDRD!LJcwVTJXhhx1a5bUu2l0dg

Poems/stories - mega.co.nz/#F!6sgETKCa!vGFF5iTfCR6lH3ZLXaQorQ

Propertarianism library mega.co.nz/#F!0F5GXTjS!oGdz8UP5JbcleNMy6YKLvg

Fascist - mega.co.nz/#F!cZoSEbpC!kdnYuLw3hvYSus9uZl6PRQ

Stats and facts - mega.co.nz/#F!4MJE0L6Q!teKAfBlT2m3Ija-Tun-EFw

Sydney traditionalist reading - mega.co.nz/#F!pYRnSJaC!HrC3Siqyioo9PjdGMNWs3Q

General collection - mega.nz/#F!flYQGbzI!p1AFjtMuCLHQqocJqxV7rg

Homestead/History - mega.nz/#F!WQ1j0Q5A!BrV-uEsC2VZlhFsqJV-YHg

Book dump - mega.nz/#F!B4dB2SzQ!h_pMC30v2a_y31iD0dy0sg

Book dump - mega.nz/#F!8YhT1SwT!naXLsLCamWPYP6YxJZAopA

/his/tory - mega.nz/#F!dlZlDbqL!TXG5bGvWufONkrQAL7b7jA

/his/tory 2 - mega.nz/#F!51Q0waSI!4Ut-eePQr9YSjHJJTQs7Ew

Languages - mega.nz/#F!x4VG3DRL!lqecF4q2ywojGLE0O8cu4A

Military History - mega.nz/#F!ZAoVjbQB!iGfDqfBDpgr0GC-NHg7KFQ

Philosophy - mega.nz/#F!MQBRHBJA!L_on3h-XUrtbc719UaMygw

MesoAmerica - mega.nz/#F!msA0Xb5Y!1t9OYAkkx0PUG8haYYiITw

Germanic Myth - mega.nz/#F!bENznApJ!zoLo1-76Rpraq_5ztpZ3SA

Warfare - mega.nz/#F!x4JD1RzD!4_nIFmI2sBdSYg14j7pIdA

SoF - mega.nz/#F!X3YFwarT!m5u6luYu9lnejW-IgYc71w

SIG - mega.nz/#F!ZuZmiBqZ!XhyEetUaj6an8ntb-U1AZw

NatSoc - mega.nz/#F!ZaAgDbzT!aGwQn3grHN-Qea8e0Zyq-Q

3rd Reich archives - mega.nz/#F!ZuZmiBqZ!XhyEetUaj6an8ntb-U1AZw

German pre-war - mega.nz/#F!5Q5UFZIR!MvGFhWEPb03Qg3ZFOh5yKg

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fourthturning.com/

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Damn beat me to it

Anyone here read Tragedy & Hope? I've been thinking of giving that one a go.

Books not out yet. Should be good though.

Seriously, fuck off.

What the fuck man im not even done his second book. When did this come out wtf is this real life?

You guys need to learn the basics.
Here is a book that matches Jow Forums average literacy level.

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It's not out yet. OP is doing some weird kind of time travelling troll.

It's his upcoming book, not out yet.

Also, I finished George Friedman's (Zeihan's old boss and the guy that gave him his start) PhD thesis a few days ago, entitled The Political Philosophy of the Frankfurt School. Breaks down the inspiration, origins, mode of operation, and inevitable failure of neo-marxism. Great read if you're interested in the subject matter, but hard to recommend because it's extremely dense.

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And yes, it names the jew repeatedly.

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His next 100 years forecast book seems like a major blackpill for the US

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The bit about the southwestern states trying to secede? Yeah, probably. But that's not the worst thing that could happen honestly, and besides that the US is in a really good position.

Economically and geographically, yes. Demographically in terms of age, yes. Demographically in terms or race, no.

>antidote to chaos
>on Jow Forums of all places
Absolutely shiggy diggy
youtube.com/watch?v=ahCgADqInX8

Peter Zeihan: The Geopolitics Guy

Flat arable land, energy independence, and above replacement fertility determine everything. If you agree with that statement you’ll love Peter Zeihan. To his credit there is value in flat arable land.

Zeihan claims that the US economy is independent of the world because only 8% of US GDP comes from exports with half of those within NAFTA. If you noticed there’s a glaring omission in that statement. Imports. Imports consist of 14% of the GDP. That’s a bigger number which means our market is a little more integrated than Zeihan would imply. It also belies a trade deficit which means that the global market has deeper reach into US markets than the inverse.

While Zeihan is correct that the US is a net oil exporter and doesn’t really need foreign oil he misses the point on the role of oil in the US economic and political order. 90% of all oil worldwide is traded in the dollar. This is the Petrodollar. The US dollar is propped up by being necessary for oil trade worldwide. If people stop buying oil in US dollars the US doesn’t run out of oil, but the dollar would crash. However he views that the US dollar will remain preeminent because all the other currencies suck for reasons.

As an expert on demographics Zeihan will tell you that the US is poised to do well because our population is growing. On the other hand both Russia and China are on the verge of collapse. Russia will have an army half as big in 10 years because of their demographic collapse. This is the motivation behind Russian aggression as of late. China is about to shatter along ethnic lines and the one child policy screwed them.

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Without even going full Jow Forums you can see that those projections are either slanted or just plain wrong. The US population growth is almost entirely due to immigration. With the shift in the US toward more low wage work in the service industry this boost in population numbers doesn’t imply a similar economic stability.

The belief that the Russians are aggressive really ignores the last 30 years of geopolitics wherein Russian client states have faced “color revolutions” and fallen into the US orbit. Russians have been on the strategic defensive since the end of the cold war. The demographic collapse Zeihan saw on the population pyramid already happened with no meaningful impact on the size of the Russian military. Since the South Ossetia conflict they have modernized their technology, developed a professional NCO corps, and revamped their force structure.

China is 90% Han Chinese and in the breakaway provinces of Tibet and Xinjiang millions of Han have been bussed in and consist of majorities there too. While the Uyghurs may still offer some resistance the ethnic demographic war has already been won. The excess males of the one child policy have found a purpose too. 1 million Chinese men work abroad, many in Africa, on the belt and road economic project. To contrast with Zeihan’s lamentation about the end of the world order the Chinese are busy creating their own. They even leveraged their supposed demographic weakness into a strength.

His other claims are dubious as well. Brazil will collapse and Argentina has the geography to pick up the slack. Russia wants Turkey in Syria to keep them out of Ukraine. The British pound can’t be a world currency because everyone hates the UK.

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Sure, and that's bad. But they really are more concentrated than most people think. Them seceding like he projects is probably the best possible outcome short of forced deportation.

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At this point you would be tempted to write this up to non-sequiturs from a best selling author making his pitch. There’s a lot to that, but look at his core message. The end of the US world order is bad for the rest of the world. Our military involvement protected human rights and now no one will. Big trade deals like NAFTA are good, but don’t go far enough. Hispanics are swing voters and veterans love Hillary Clinton. The Euro failed because it didn’t go far enough; only the currency integrated not the banking sectors. Russia and China are bad. Iran and Saudi Arabia hate each other for inscrutable reasons that will inevitably lead toward direct confrontation. He says exactly what his alumni at Stratfor want to hear.

Peter Zeihan provides poor analysis. He ignores datapoints and trends that conflict with or outright invalidate his projections. He is prone to non-sequiturs that sound really exciting. His thinking is marketable, but the markets aren’t thoughtful. Pop geopolitics are empty calories. Study history, read the news, and talk to people and you’ll know far more than Zeihan.

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Compare to other states

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>Brazil will collapse

N-NANI!?

He never even tried to explain that one.

oh shit anti-zeihan poster
I dunno his predictions have been pretty good the past 5 years

Probably Blanc provinces to separate from the brown ones.. Bolsonaro being the first "step" to.

It all implies a heavy international crisis first, with living standards falling significantly.

youtube.com/watch?v=udrDQHqnmYY

Essentially the argument goes that the majority of your recent economic growth is due to foreign capital and exports. With the baby boomer generation retiring and taking their money out of their investment accounts and into fixed incomes, investment capital will dry up and interest rates will rise. This capital contraction is bad news for countries like Brazil, South Africa, and India, who have used 0% interest rates to fund large scale growth in recent decades.

Also, declining populations means fewer people to buy things means fewer exports. And Brazil's population is actually aging much faster than the US's is.

He did, you apparently weren't paying attention.

Really? His claim about the collapse of the Russian military is wrong. Chinese demographics have been solved by exports. The belt and road project with BRICS seem to be filling the post US order. Veterans continue to vote Republican. Hispanics have never been swing voters. Why would Brazil collapse?

Exporting the excess Chinese males.

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Written by a fag.

yeah man he has been calling the dis unification of the world long before trump and brexit
he's right about the US economy holding up better than Europe and China as the US withdraws
right about energy independence, he wrote that shale book a couple years ago

A better argument for a Brazilian decline would be a shift toward America away from integration with the Chinese markets under Brazil. The argument you posted is pablum, but I'll give you a hint. Investments are driven by the wealthiest of the wealthy. As pension funds taught us investment funds can create mismanagement anyway so that's not an unqualified good.

Also, has anyone here bought The Decline of the West off of amazon?

His claim about the russian military still has a few years to run its course, he's said their point of no return is 2022.

The chinese have not exported all of their excess males, and that is only a small percentage of the problem anyways. You can't have a domestic consumer driven economy like china wants without domestic consumers. 1 child fucked that up for them forever.

AFAIK he said nothing about veterans, he was referring to national security people, which is fairly true considering the John McCain/nevertrumper types. Hispanics don't vote majority conservative but they do vote conservative about 35% of the time, which is what he was talking about. As for brazil see and

oh fuck

>he's right about the US economy holding up better than Europe and China as the US withdraws
I don't think that's been proven.

>right about energy independence, he wrote that shale book a couple years ago
He doesn't understand the petrodollar so his understanding of the role of oil in the US economy is fundamentally wrong.

>Also, has anyone here bought The Decline of the West off of amazon?
Forgot the rest of my post while responding to autist. I'm trying to find a decent version of it but all the one I see have 1 star reviews saying they're essentially computer scans shit out on printer paper. And the ones that aren't are like $200+

>He doesn't understand the petrodollar
No, that'd be you buddy.

Everyone should have a Chuck Palahniuk phase when they're a teenager so they can get the edgy bullshit out of their system. Reading him beyond that age is just fucking stupid.

Amen

>His claim about the russian military still has a few years to run its course, he's said their point of no return is 2022.
Except the population crash already occurred. The military age population is smaller and the military is the same size. So considering he was wrong about 2022 that means that his claim happened early and resulted in nothing of note.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia

>The chinese have not exported all of their excess males, and that is only a small percentage of the problem anyways. You can't have a domestic consumer driven economy like china wants without domestic consumers. 1 child fucked that up for them forever.
That would be a major problem if China had a domestic consumer economy. However Zeihan skipped the day in college where you learn that other countries have different economies. In a manufacturing economy that is building an empire to secure raw materials you live by different rules.

>AFAIK he said nothing about veterans, he was referring to national security people, which is fairly true considering the John McCain/nevertrumper types. Hispanics don't vote majority conservative but they do vote conservative about 35% of the time, which is what he was talking about. As for brazil see and

You weren't paying attention then. 23:29 for the analysis of the electorate.
youtube.com/watch?v=o--FmUXHPKE

90% of all oil sold in the world is bought in the US dollar. 90% of oil doesn't go to the US. The dollar is propped up by the fact that it is necessary for oil sales right now. If the US withdraws oil won't be sold in dollar currencies. That would remove the overseas demand for US dollars and US treasury bonds which keep the value of the US dollar artificially high. This is a monetary problem, not an energy one.

Industrial Society and its future

T. Known Boss

you're saying he will be wrong in the future because you don't agree with his theories about demographics, but that doesn't really prove him wrong. it just means you have different predictions about the future

If your prediction about the future happened before you said it would and didn't have the consequences you said it would that makes it wrong. The demographic collapse he talked about happened before 2022 and didn't lead to the collapse of the Russian military. Most of what he says is self-discrediting nonsense, but his specific claims are rarely accurate.

based and brian kenny pilled

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>So considering he was wrong about 2022 that means that his claim happened early and resulted in nothing of note.
You're a moron. Demographics don't "happen early", the point is that the russian military will be dying off faster than they can get new recruits. Of course the military doesn't just drop in size overnight, it's something that happens over a course of years. They'll die or age out, and nobody will be there to replace them. Hence 2022.

>China
China doesn't have a domestic consumer economy, but they want one. The rest of the world, except for the US, doesn't really have much in the way of consumers either. They need people to buy their crap or else their population goes unemployed. It's less an economic problem and more a political one, because when the chinese go unemployed, they march into Beijing and start hanging people. It doesn't matter if they're a manufacturing economy with the biggest empire on earth if they don't have customers.

>veterens and hispanics
so you just missed the part where it says exactly what I said, doesn't mention veterans at all and lists hispanic as not solidly democrat (because they aren't, at least not the same way blacks, gays, greens or unmarried women are)? Nice.

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It isn't 2022 yet so how the fuck do you know?

>If your prediction about the future happened before you said it would and didn't have the consequences you said it would that makes it wrong. The demographic collapse he talked about happened before 2022
holy shit you are the dumbest person to ever live. Demographic collapses can't happen early barring a war or plague that kills off a generation. Jesus H christ kill yourself. And go make another thread, I'm done talking to you and we're supposed to be discussing books anyways.

>>Hurr wash your penis
GTFO

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>I don't think that's been proven.
Everyone is squirming just at the suggestion of US withdrawal. Although the US is not that well liked, America is trustworthy and immensely resource rich compared to the alternatives. The US is the world's best customer and vendor.

Thanks based Japo. I made an image of it last time for posterity.

This is an incredible source of information. Probably more than I could read in a lifetime.

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He was wrong about 2022 because it happened in 2015. See this chart or read this to learn more.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia

So you say that the Russian military wouldn't collapse overnight. Except that it's a conscript driven military so it would have it about a year.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Russia

Both of these major points lead me to believe that Zeihan is wrong about the Russian military declining in size. In fact given demographic trends its about about as small as it will ever be right now.

Try thinking about China yourself instead of just parroting Zeihan. A Chinese collapse is a warlord period not a long march. Neo-feudalism is the natural order of China absent the central state. The central state isn't collapsing though, that's Chinese propaganda to make us less uncomfortable. The belt and road project is the development of the Chinese empire. BRICS is consolidating world markets for China. The big loser if the Chinese market tanks is the US because Chinese purchases of US treasury bonds keep dollar demand high.

I'm sure when he said "national security voters" he didn't mean veterans. He also did list Hispanics and Catholics as swing voters. Hispanics have "swung" between a high of 38% Republican in 1984 for pro-immigration Ronald Reagan to a low of 21% in 1996 for pro-immigration Bob Dole.
latinousa.org/2015/10/29/the-latino-vote-in-presidential-races/

I'm beginning to suspect you're Peter Zeihan personally shilling your own book. That's the only way you could be this stupid.

If you're too smart to read Peter Zeihan enjoy Sir John Glubb's Fate of Empires to understand how imperial dynamics actually work.
archive.org/details/pdfy-2F_iHS6BLtGJb2ad

If you want a better understanding of economics than "muh consumer economies" read James Burnham's Managerial Revolution.
archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.17923/page/n3

If you want a better understanding of politics than "Hispanics are swing voters" read anything by Sam Francis.
archive.org/details/BeautifulLosersSamuelT.Francis
web.archive.org/web/20031210203607/http://www.samfrancis.net/archive.html
unz.com/author/sam-francis/

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>I'm beginning to suspect you're Peter Zeihan personally shilling your own book.
Well if you think that then there's nothing I can do to convince you otherwise. I could be Zeihan, I could be a dog on the internet, I might not even be American and just post on a proxy.

Your suspicions are not unfounded though. Zeihanposting has ramped up significantly over the past two months. I don't care for it, but it does get Jow Forumsacks talking about geopolitics and it's evident that the discussion is starting to show results. People are doing their research and making their own conclusions, and some patterns are starting to match up even though each one does research independently. Those points should be considered for further scrutiny.

Whoever is pushing this is literally getting free research and analysis done courtesy of autism.

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I highly recommend this book on race realism. His publisher spammed it in the 1990s so you might be able to find it in your local library.

archive.org/details/J.PhilippeRushtonRaceEvolutionAndBehaviobOk.xyz

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It's just disappointing that Jow Forums is taken in by charlatans like Zeihan and Peterson. Saying mainstream talking points shouldn't warrant attention in the mainstream let along on Jow Forums.

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Strategy is something Jow Forums struggles with. These are all worthwhile reads on that topic.

Maneuver Warfare Handbook
libgen.pw/item/detail/id/5a1f05ac3a044650f513a3b6
Strategy
webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/virtual_disk_library/index.cgi/1304387/FID653/ACROREAD/FMFM1.PDF
Campaigning
archive.org/details/campaigningusmar00unse/page/n0
Tactics
archive.org/details/tactics00unse_0/page/n0
Leadership
archive.org/details/marinecorpsleade00mari/page/n0

Everyone has to start somewhere user, even if it may not be the right way. Assuming that it's all just baloney, there is a small sliver of truth to lies and misinformation. All it takes is a sense of inquisitiveness to correct course.

Geopolitical sphere is definitely going to undergo massive changes, and everyone is speculating. Some of it sounds crazy, but it's only crazy until it happens. I don't think anyone really knows what'll happen by the next decade.
Looks like some nice reading to do over the midnight hours. Thanks for the sauces.

Here is John Boyd, America's greatest military theorist. He lays out his grand theory, applies it to strategy, and then to maneuver and guerrilla warfare.
goalsys.com/books/documents/DESTRUCTION_AND_CREATION.pdf
dnipogo.org/boyd/strategic_game.pdf
dnipogo.org/boyd/patterns_ppt.pdf

Watch this around when you read his first paper.
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7U8k5xOOnOObceOpF-OHNqxFuLMq-cen

Watch this while going through the Patterns of Conflict slide deck.
youtube.com/watch?v=9TpFQuBY8E0

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I'm not as optimistic as you. If the conservative movement taught us anything it's that marketable stupid shit has a long life. Good analysis is ignored. History is made by people who don't know what they're doing.

Most popular intellectuals are really easy to debunk, but nearly impossible to discredit. I'm afraid we're stuck with retards like Peter Zeihan and Jordan Peterson for the foreseeable future.

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An intelligent person. Holy shit.

The Genius of the Beast is really good too.

On current events...well at least Bloom admits his positions are rooted in ideals that aren’t rationally defensible. To his credit he’s very perceptive in his commentaries when it comes to the big picture. He doesn’t bullshit too much. Except blaming EVERYTHING on the WASPs probably.

If you can suffer through them, War and Peace (Tolstoy) and Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) are masterpieces. Russians mastered the novel.

got a pdf to it?

>marketable stupid shit has a long life
>good analysis is ignored
It's just the nature of the status quo. People by nature don't like having their worldview shattered. It makes them feel like they have to start from scratch, and a lot of people know deep down that rebuilding a worldview can be a real struggle.

Lay on everything you believe is true. Someone will read and make sense of it for themselves. Jow Forums is always right, starting with people who speak to the contrary.

does anyone have pdfs of his books id love to read them.

Only the first one, but yeah, here you go.

drive.google.com/file/d/1aTp2wEsK0M753_Ji1bJ24XfL2RZP6QHW/view?usp=sharing

One of the better translations; an interesting and different take on the symbolic structure. The Tao Te Ching is one of those books everyone should read anyway. Not just for its innate philosophical value, but also, once you've read it, then you can really be sad for how much the (((goddamned commies))) actually stole from the Chinese.

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garbage from start to finish.

This book will rip your head apart, if you're not used to non-western, non-linear thinking. It will also reward you tremendously if you can actually make it through and UNDERSTAND it.

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pod cast about the book
youtube.com/watch?v=tPMl6wiAO8I

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