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By starman2003
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I'm aware that consumer goods includes appliances and "stuff." ;) Jobs are fine but aren't "consumer goods." Unfortunately, an emphasis on consumer goods reduces resources for state goods. Surely you've heard of the production possibility curve.
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By Fasces
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I was hoping to see Rei post a contribution here, even from atypical sources from which she derives inspiration. ;)
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By Rei Murasame
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You've covered a lot already (you listed like all the Ze'ev Sternhell stuff!), so I'll add these just quickly - although lists like this are always really hard to make, and come out looking a bit 'random' and always incomplete, nevertheless, let's try:

  • The Book of Tea, by Kakuzo Okakura
  • Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  • The Antichrist, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  • The Man-Made World; or Our Androcentric Culture, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Democracy: The God That Failed, by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (disregard his Libertarian 'solutions'. This will mean fighting against Hoppe while reading him.)
  • Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, by Carl Schmitt
  • Social Economics, by Friedrich von Wieser
  • The Law of Power, by Friedrich von Wieser
  • On Identity, by Alain de Benoist
  • The Analects of Confucius
  • The Sayings of Mencius
  • Sources of Japanese Tradition Volume Two, by Arthur E. Tiedemann (particularly for sections involving Fujiwara Seika and Hayashi Razan!)
  • Britain and Japan: a comparative economic and social history since 1900, by Kenneth Douglas Brown
  • The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
  • Moving the Mountain, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • The Family Way: A New Approach to Policy Making, by Harriet Harman
  • Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft: A sociological view of the decay of modern society, by Alain de Benoist
  • What is Racism?, by Alain de Benoist
  • What is Sovereignty?, by Alain de Benoist
  • Against Democracy and Equality: The European New Right, by Tomislav Sunic
  • The Language Instinct, by Steven Pinker
  • The Order of Things, by Michel Foucault
  • The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story, by Stephen Oppenheimer
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By starman2003
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The Twilight of Democracy is old, maybe 20 years, and not that good, but it's great to see such a title. :) Phillips and Kupchan have made a few good points in their books.
By Benjamin Noyles
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Walter_Nowotny wrote:Hey Nietzsche is more for national socialism with the emphasize on the superman.

Please explain :eh:
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By starman2003
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I don't think Nietzsche was for national socialism, though the nazis naturally claimed he was an antecedent. Nietszche opposed anti-semitism* and was far from a gung ho german nationalist. According to The Portable Nietzsche he was also anti-statist. Elsewhere, however, I've read that he favored Caesarism and napoleon. He certainly opposed democracy as well as christianity.

*At times at least. For a comprehensive look at this aspect see Nietzsche and the Jews Exaltation and Denigration
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By starman2003
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Of course, he isn't all that easy to figure out because of his aphoristic writings. One correspondent told me: "Nobody understand Nietzsche....or equals his superintelligence."
By Walter_Nowotny
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Nazis took the superman theory from Nietzsche and also the one that God doesn't exist (I think it was called).
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By starman2003
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Superman yes. But they couldn't be open about rejecting "god" or christianity. Nietzsche said "god is dead" meaning christianity is becoming increasingly irrelevant in an increasingly secular world.
By Benjamin Noyles
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Walter_Nowotny wrote:Nazis took the superman theory from Nietzsche and also the one that God doesn't exist (I think it was called).

Painfully simplistic, ARRRRGH IT HURTS! NO.

I don't know whay but I assumed you were talking about the specifics; The anti bourgeois, the will to power, the overcoming of nihilism, thebiological reduction of man/ the celebration of the tragic human being who faces nature/death/destiny, what Goebbles called steely romanticism. But no.

Nobody stole anything from anyone, its just common sense.

He was also an individualist, but an illiberal one, which I find intriguing.

Only in the same manner as Hobbes.
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By Bounce
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I'm finding many of these hard to find.

I've found a few, but I can't find any of the economics ones on JSTOR, the uni library, the state library or the local library.

I expected not being able to find hard copies, but the lack of virtual copies seems strange. Is there some secret depository, or do you need to purchase them?
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By Fasces
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They're old books. I don't think they'd be of major priority to digitally scan, and if so, two of them are more likely to be done so in their original French. You'd probably have to purchase them.

I'm spoiled by my access to the LoC.

For Sorel and Saint-Simon, you can likely find a lot of academic works, Marxist works in particular, referencing or detailing the arguments.
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By Bounce
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Are there any readings on Fascist economy that do not need to be purchased and are easily found?

I'm mainly looking for the reasons why capitalism needs to be regulated - and what I've found (by Wilhelm Ropke) - is good, but I'm sure there is more.
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