Babby's first reading list on authoritarian ideologies

[Migraine Box]

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Guess now is as good of a time as any to start reading up on the Big Bads™ of the 20th century: Fascism, Nazism, Communism. Everyone accuses everyone of being a nazi or a commie these days, why not learn what those actually mean? Unfortunately, the 'net is thoroughly pozzed to hell and back so trying to find anything non hyper-biased is nigh impossible.

Could've sworn there was a thread already like this somewhere here, but after searching high and low, I couldn't find one. Hopefully some of you more well-read farmers can make some solid recommendations and help build a decent list.

There's the obvious like the Communist Manifesto, the Doctrine of Fascism, Mein Kampf, etc, but I'm looking for some more in-depth looks into the underpinnings and philosophies behind the ideologies.
If it helps, my main goals can be distilled to "What is [system], how did/does [system] work, and what does a [follower of system] believe". Essentially the hows, whats, and whys. Also, works discussing the people behind the ideologies and movements are welcome.

I'll try to keep an organized list below of suggestions and recommendations for future posterity. Dankeschon.

Communism/Socialism
Those damn Ruskies are at it again​

Title​	Author​
The Communist Manifesto	Karl Marx, Friedrich Engles
The German Ideology	Karl Marx, Friedrich Engles
Anti-Duhring	Friedrich Engles
The Little Red Book of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung	Mao Zedong
Contemporary writings on Lenin, Stalin, and Mao	misc?
Read at your own peril​
Das Kapitol	Karl Marx

Fascism
They saw you put pineapple on your pizza. Run.​

Title​	Author​
The Doctrine of Fascism	Benito Mussolini, Giovanni Gentile
My Autobiography	Benito Mussolini
The Crisis of the Modern World	René Guénon
Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought	A. James Gregor

Recommended Authors:

Giovanni Gentile​

René Guénon​

Julius Evola​

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Nazism
Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper Nazi too?​

Title​	Author​
Mein Kampf	Adolph Hitler
The Myth of the Twentieth Century	Alfred Rosenberg
National Socialism: Its Foundations, Development, and Goals	Rudolf Jung
The Concept of the Political	Carl Schmitt
The Art of the Deal	Donald Trump

Recommended Authors:

Carl Schmitt​

Julius Evola​

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Antis

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Title​	Author​
The Road to Serfdom	Friedrich Hayek
For laughs​
Hitler: A German Fate	Ernst Nieksich
Ur-Fascism	Umberto Eco

Updated 4:11PM 10/27/24

 

[ElHijodeDeficienciaCogni]

This will probably get me put on a list, but here you go.

I have it on good authority that this is basically Mein Kampf on steroids.

 

[Neodanthril]

I'll give you a more complete reading list tomorrow but the guy who wrote Mussolini's intellectuals is great. There was a guy that wrote a philosophical treatise for national socialism before Hitler took the party over that is very very good but I forget the name right now. Mein Kampf isn't a great introductory read since it's primary audience was German veterans of WW1 and any German who lived through that experience and the years that followed in general

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Das Kapital by Karl Marx
The Fascist Doctrine by Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile
My Autobiography by Benito Mussolini
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

In order of genealogy.

That's all entry level but better than nothing.

 

[Safir]

The Communist Manifesto has been enacted in every first-world Capitalist country in the 1920s an 30s, specifically to prevent the spread of Communism. Workers' rights are "communism". Insurance and retirement is "communism". Country-wide laws is "communism" (no lords having laws for their domains -- DeSantis is therefore a "communist" because he cut up the Rat's feudal charter). If you want to know what Communists believe (those who built or want to build a Communist country), you should read Lenin, Stalin, and Mao.

Case in point, look at marxists.org's suggested reading:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/selected-marxists.htm

These are presented with short bios that I have cut down here to the pertinent facts.

Karl Marx & Fredrick Engels (1818-1895)
...
ok, makes sense

Daniel DeLeon (1852-1914)
...
Died 1914

Karl Kautsky (1854-1938)
Helped create the German Social-Democracy
Failcuck.

Clara Zetkin (1857-1933)
Leader of the international women's movement.
Informed women's issues in the USSR, ok to read if you're interested in specifically Soviet women.

Georgi Plekhanov (1856-1918)
Helped create the Russian Social-Democratic party, becoming a Menshevik after the split in the party, but he tried to keep the party united. Believed that capitalism need to grow up before socialism was possible; thus he opposed the Soviet government.
Dead loser. Also, the "Soviet government" didn't exist in 1918, the USSR was formed in 1922.

Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919)
Championed the idea of the mass strike. Tireless opponent of WWI, she renounced the German Social Democracy, helped to create the Spartacus League, and later the German Communist Party. Critical of the Soviet government. Executed by the German government.
Executed in 1919. Note, again, "Critical of the Soviet government".

James Connolly (1868-1916)
Helped create the Irish Socialist Republican Party in 1896
Executed in 1916.

Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938)
One of the youngest but also the most active theoreticians of the Bolsheviks
Executed by Stalin in 1938.

Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924)
...
The guy who created the first Marxist Communist in history is suspiciously down the list.

Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
[worth quoting in full -S] First Menshevik, later Bolshevik Revolutionary. As commissar of war led the Red Army to defeat the Entente in their invasion of Soviet Russia. Helped create the Left Opposition to overthrow Stalin and stop the monstrous attrocities he'd soon commit. Created the theory of the Permanent Revolution, and the Fourth International. Assassinated by the Soviet government.
lmao

Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952)
Bolshevik Revolutionary. Led the Workers' Opposition, which opposed party control of trade unions and believed in industrial unionism. First woman ambassador in history. Proponent of free love, she wrote extensively on women's and other social issues.
lmao "proponent of free love", going for the coomer demographic here. ("Free love", in 1917 context, means "marriage is a state issue, no religious restrictions, fathers don't own their adult children, rape is prohibited".) Funny shit-stirrer, literally outlived her usefulness in 1922.

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Helped create the Italian Communist Party. Arrested in 1926
Died in prison, allegedly (per grandson per wikipedia) preferred to die in prison than be freed by the Soviets.

Georg Lukács (1885-1971)
Hungarian philosopher, writer, and literary critic. Commissar for Culture and Education in Hungary's short-lived Socialist government (1919). Helped lead the Hungarian uprising of 1956 against Stalinist repression.
Do you notice a pattern?

Karl Korsch (1886-1961)
German Left Communist
RAN OFF TO THE US

M. N. Roy (1892-1970)
Indian Communist
Inconsequential pajeet turned hippy.

CLR James (1901-1989)
West Indian, Afro Caribbean. Lucid dialectician, historian, novelist, & playwright. Stressed the importance of non-white workers to the revolutionary movement
Novelist and playwright, also nigger.

José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930)
Peruvian writer and agitator.
Died in 1930 and influenced nothing.

Hal Draper (1914-1990)
American journalist and labor activist.
Trotskyist yeed.

George Padmore (1902-1959)
West Indian, who joined the CPUSA
"the anti-imperialist Padmore survived a vicious Stalinist witch-hunt"
US nigger.

Paul Mattick (1903-1981)
German Left Communist, later lived in the U.S.. Main exponent of “Council Communism” and opponent of idea of Revolution being led by a political party.
I can't even

That's all!

The TL;DR is marxists.org is opposed to nation-building and specifically Communist nations, and they're a bad primary source on "authoritarian ideologies". West-approved "marxists" are cucks who are into scoring blue-haired pussy. Notably, they don't see Marx as an obstacle to their anti-authoritarian homosexual propaganda, because he died never having seen a Communist state or even a party, and didn't have an opinion on it.

As for Marx himself, his writings are interesting historical documents but need cultural explainers, they were written for contemporary bougies, they're not babby's first anything. French nobles, a particular target of Marx's ire (in the Communist Manifesto, too), were not a problem to any Communist party or nation. Starting on Communism with Marx is like starting on Christianity with The Book of Numbers in the original Aramaic. If you want babby's first Communism, you should read Stalin and Mao (contemporary writings for normies). If you want a shorter and snappier / more memeable TL;DR and also why the Soviet Union was destroyed, read Lenin, who foresaw it before it was founded.

 

[Soi Woh Jak]

I don't know if you want treatises on authoritarian ideologies or counterpoints to them.
In any case read quotations by mao tse Tung ie red book, communist manifesto, das kapital, on the Jewish question, towards a gay communism, works of Giovanni gentile and Carl Schmitt, maybe Julius evola as well and the books about Judaism by Israel shahak. I would consider counterpoints to these to be more interesting, road to serfdom particularly but you do you I guess.
Also there is a book called fascism under the blue star which was a Soviet hitpiece on Israel, I've never been able to find it and would really like to have it.

 

[I hate women (like you)]

op, regarding communism I have 2 pieces of advice: first, if you hear a nigga say something like 'read marx's capital' then turn 360 degrees then some more and go away from the nigger, cause he aint know shit about what he talking about. Unless you have an autistic interest in marxism, do not read a page beyond chapter 1 (or, if you're ambitious, 3 first chapters or so) - that shit's 3 huge volumes of boring economic shit that's been largely null and void for well over 100 years. Second, start from the end - do not read anything form Marx or Engels except the shortest of their works, instead read Lenin, Stalin, Mao or even modern chinks like Deng or Xi. The reasons are simple - the latter five had to solve real issues and these issues were much more modern and thus much more relevant to people living in the current year. The only exception is philosophy - stuff like Antiduhring and the first part of The German Ideology, but you can get the gist with Stalin and Lenin just fine anyway.

 

[Generic Anime Girl]

something something evola

 

[ilovejews]

something something evola

"Ride the tiger" is pretty esoteric, though. I'd recommend starting with the works that are at the root of fascism (see posts above, italian stuff mostly), then working your way up to Evola et al.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Maybe 5% of the people espousing those theories have managed or have the intellectual capabilities to go through the first chapter in their books. Especially as you need to already be on board with the ideals to actually give them a fair chance.

Here's the tl;dr:
Communism:
What is it: "Equality above all".
How does it work: "Give all the power to representatives of the people who will govern without corruption".
What does a follower believe: "I must give it my all every day for the prosperity of my society".
Communism in general is illdefined since every group makes a change to fit it to their goal. Be it who are the representative or whether it should expand or not. That's how "not true communism" is a meme.

Fascism:
What is it: "Nation above all".
How does it work: "Reduce dependency on outside forces, the citizens of a country should only be loyal to it".
What does a follower believe: "I must give it my all every day for the prosperity of my country".
Fascism is just a blob of terms that nobody makes a single definition of. Everyone agrees that loyalty to the country is mandatory, but how it actually comes in practice or how it functions was never codified and changed to suit the rulers goals.

Nazism:
What is it: "Race above all".
How does it work: "Every race has its hierarchical position and according to it their rights".
What does a follower believe: "I must give it my all every day for the prosperity of the master race".
Imagine communism only what is considered human is liable to change according to who's on top. If you are the master race you have your utopia, anything else then you are either a slave or something to be disposed of.

 

[DJ Grelle]

I'll give you a more complete reading list tomorrow but the guy who wrote Mussolini's intellectuals is great. There was a guy that wrote a philosophical treatise for national socialism before Hitler took the party over that is very very good but I forget the name right now. Mein Kampf isn't a great introductory read since it's primary audience was German veterans of WW1 and any German who lived through that experience and the years that followed in general

Do you mean Alfred Rosenberg's Myth of the 20th Century?

@OP
Attached you can find some translated works from the Third Reich

Faith and Action - Helmuth Stellrecht: Used in Hitlerjugend education
Kurt Eggers collected writings: musings of an SS officers that was part of the propaganda unit
Gottglaubig - priest-turned-SS-officer's writings on faith
I've thrown in MK as well to round it out.

Should give you a pretty good insight in the nazi worldview.

 

[Generic Anime Girl]

"Ride the tiger" is pretty esoteric, though. I'd recommend starting with the works that are at the root of fascism (see posts above, italian stuff mostly), then working your way up to Evola et al.

assuming Devi's out of the picture, too?

 

[Neodanthril]

Alfred Rosenberg's Myth of the 20th Century?

that wasnt what i was thinking of but thank you for putting me onto that book, i will check it out. what i was thinking of was National Socialism : Its Foundations, Development, and Goals (1922 2nd ed.) by Rudolf Jung. other notable works attached below. the only one of these i dont reccommend is hitler a german fate by ernst Nieksich. i inclduded it however because it provides excellent insight into how old leftoid seething is. this work is a rag that calls hitler every dirty word under the sun and would be hilarious were it not for how wicked the author was. they participated in the 1918 communist revolution in germany. they were also a close friend of ernst junger, who is highly overrated.
another controversial opinion, evola is highly overrated as well. rene guenon, the man evola regarded as the forefather of his work, is far more intelligent and does a better job of saying what evola was trying to say but never could get there.

 

[mindlessobserver]

May as well throw Umberto Eco's essay Ur-Fascism in the mix as well, if only as an explainer on why literally everything gets called Fascist these days. The dude is a lunatic that viewed things like tradition and appealing to the middle class as hallmarks of Fascism. But the Left ate his shit up like it was chocolate.

 

[S3y88]

Serious question why did Evola talked so positively about brown cultures (Indians, Natives)

 

[Migraine Box]

Updated the OP with lists broken down by ideology. Thanks for all the recommendations so far, guys! There were several authors frequently mentioned but have extensive bibliographies and nobody named specific works, so I listed them separately (for now).

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Big ups to you guys for the PDFs. These seem like they'd be more difficult works to find hard copies of, at least without getting put on like twenty different watch lists

Umberto Eco's essay Ur-Fascism

Lmfao, this guy would've been right at home on pre-Elon Twitter. Shit reads like the mad ramblings of a #VOTEBLUENOMATTERWHO account under an old Trump tweet.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Lmfao, this guy would've been right at home on pre-Elon Twitter. Shit reads like the mad ramblings of a #VOTEBLUENOMATTERWHO account under an old Trump tweet.

There is a special kind of Irony about a bunch of retarded Italians inventing a new form of Liberalism based on the Liberal State as the ultimate good and calling it Fascist. Only for a hundred years later another retarded Italian to come along, ignore everything the Italian Fascists wrote and argued that traditionalism and anyone who is not a Leftist is akshually fascism

It would funny if not for the fact that the Academics of then and now accepted his bullshit with pure credulity. So now there are leftists who earnestly believe the fucking Pope is a fascist institution.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

May as well throw Umberto Eco's essay Ur-Fascism in the mix as well, if only as an explainer on why literally everything gets called Fascist these days. The dude is a lunatic that viewed things like tradition and appealing to the middle class as hallmarks of Fascism. But the Left ate his shit up like it was chocolate.

I legit have a hard time deciding who I hate more, Umberto Eco or Karl Marx. I know that the moral answer should be Karl, but Eco's tard base are in my face being dumb, annoying and sometimes violent in the here and now.

 

[Black Man Underwear]

Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought

A. James Gregor

Good add.

Add works by Ezra Pound. I recommend Jefferson And/Or Mussolini.

Lawrence Dennis is also a good author. The Dynamics of War and Revolution is a good read.

Also Nicola Bombacci's later works are interesting. He was Italy's head communist until he defected to Mussolini in 1943.

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]