/GET IN HERE PUNKS/

>Dosto was a commy,
My god, such ignorance!

Read Demons by Dostoevsky. It's all about how progressivism destroys society and the importance of christian values and tradition.

Very good book!

>Dosto was a Commy

He was early in his life but he sure as fuck wasn't after he left prison you fucking nimrod. Read his books again and this time don't be shithead with the reading comprehension of a retarded lemur.

>He was a commie...

Maybe you're thinking of his brother? Thomas Mann supported the conservative Kaiser prior to WWI, and while he did become sympathetic to left-liberal systems during the Weimar Era (really the only German intellectual to defend the Weimar constitution, which was assaulted throughout the 1920s by both the left and the right) and vigorously criticized the Nazis, he maintained throughout his life that he was not a communist.

/pol/ is the entry point for the site now and we're going to keep jerking over conservative literature until enough people become conservatives that we all become part of the Marxist Vanguard purely for the sake of contrarianism.

>(On Women, the rest it shit)
WRONG! Schopenhauer gave the greatest insights into the nature of humans, out of LITERALLY any philosopher. The will is real, and it's in all of us.

How was Borges a conservative? I've only read a few of his stories so forgive my ignorance.

What do we do about /pol/ being the entry point to this place Veeky Forums? Conservatives are fine, anti-intellectuals like what you find on /pol/ is not

Are not*

Mishima

where my Russel kirk at?

...

>During a 1971 conference at Columbia University, a creative writing student asked Borges what he regarded as, "a writer's duty to his time". Borges replied, "I think a writer's duty is to be a writer, and if he can be a good writer, he is doing his duty. Besides, I think of my own opinions as being superficial. For example, I am a Conservative, I hate the Communists, I hate the Nazis, I hate the anti-Semites, and so on; but I don't allow these opinions to find their way into my writings—except, of course, when I was greatly elated about the Six Days' War. Generally speaking, I think of keeping them in watertight compartments. Everybody knows my opinions, but as for my dreams and my stories, they should be allowed their full freedom, I think. I don't want to intrude into them, I'm writing fiction, not fables."[47]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges#Political_opinions

Certainly a conservative writer but not necessarily one who consciously writes about conservatism.

Ignore them.

>No Yeats, Ezra Pound, or William Blake

tasteless

He was a social democrat with a penchant for the pastoral - It's be the latter element that's qualifying him rather than his lived politic

Mmmm... okay, thank you!

Explicit political moralisation always comes across as deeply crass in fiction

cf. George Orwell

I read somewhere that if Marxism was around by the time Dos was writing he might have supported it, or at the very least given it some thought.

The only socialists that were around during his time (and that greatly triggered him) were utopian socialists like Chernyshevsky who, like some of the characters in Demons, were advocating a break in the Russian social order. They thought that it was possible to build a society based on mutual cooperation.

This was of course parodied extensively by Dos who saw that it was idealistic. But he still couldn't quite answer the question of nihilism, and alienation found in the young men pointed our by by Lermontov, Turnigev and others.

The protagonist of Crime and Punishment spends a great deal of time walking around and lamenting at the loss of genuine human relations at the hands of industry and profit. No longer are people celebrating God's glory by helping the meek but engage with him on a superficial level. Suffering has become the only great way of experiencing him as opposed to the rich farmer in Dead Souls who used work as a type of worship.

Granted, he might have been more triggered because of Marx's strong stance one could describe as "fuck all this bullshit" and the fact that he was a foreigner. However, with some material basis for which he could build he observation he might have become one of the great Christian Communists, one who sees spiritual retardation growing as a result of material relations.

Good book, defends the social conservative position against utilitarianism. Has a vague almost Marxist critique of liberal economics which I did not expect.

>What do we do about /pol/ being the entry point to this place Veeky Forums?
Yeah, because redditors totally aren't coming in through /co/ and Veeky Forums. My recommendation is to ban phoneposters.

>because redditors
Pol/acks are way worse than redditors

maybe try reading anything by those authors or simply reading a biography on them my man

>defending plebbit

>pretending pol isn't worse

/pol/ is shit due to it's proximity to plebbit you normie dicksucker. It's inherently not as bad as leddit because only leddit is as bad as leddit.

Not samefag.

>/pol/ is shit due to it's proximity to plebbit you normie dicksucker
Suuuure it is. Dont worry, the boogie man won't visit you tonight.

You're telling me, a site that steals memes and is occupied by autistic screaming middle class liberals, is better than a containment board of shitposters? I have a suspicion that you're one of them.