Hi Veeky Forums, what do you think of my non-fiction collection? What else would you recommend?

hi Veeky Forums, what do you think of my non-fiction collection? What else would you recommend?

bad samaritans is such a piece of shit, that guy makes so many humblebrag excuses for korean success, meanwhile if you're known any koreans you know that are maniacally hardworkers, like calvinist tier workaholic mother fuckers, some go to school, but many more start businesses and work like dogs, so his "the reason korean is more successful than africa is just luck and racism lol" is such bullshit and quite frankly it's harmful to lie to african and african-american people that koreans don't work hard and their high incomes and wealth are just random, be honest and tell people how you achieved success so they can follow your path, don't be a modest little bitch and pretend you didn't work hard

I work with koreans and it is true they can work hard, probably that 2 years of military service that does it.
But would the countries success overall have nothing at all to do with policies of pursuing internal development and industrialization and economic protectionism for a long time - something Africa has been denied? Which is the point of the book.

africa has been free from colonialism for the same amount of time as korea, so that's bullshit, there's nothing stopping africans from practicing protectionism and internal development, they're just corrupt and lazy

No it hasn't, the official european rule was simply replaced with client regimes opening up the countries to commercial exploitation and keeping the populations tightly controlled

needs more paul mattick

so why didn't korea have a "client regime" then, considering it had a massive force of american troops literally stationed inside the country and hostile power japan and china on either side?

ok to be fair north korea was a stalinist client until the fall of the ussr

i'm not saying africa didn't get screwed but i'm sick of these wealthy successful cultures pretending they didn't work hard

>so why didn't korea have a "client regime" then

lol you fool
Korea was a military dictatorship until 1987
It was a client regime
For strategic reasons, and some sectors could make money out of it, it needed to be allowed to build up its industry to provide a bulkwark against the USSR, just like Japan and Germany were rebuilt.
Some could make money out of industrialising and developing Africa, but many more can make money simply extracting resources

they developed through protectionism and doing the exact opposite of what neoliberalism calls for

so why don't africans do that then? if u figured it out all by yourself surely some rich oxford educated asshole in the african ruling class can figure it out too

if there was a pro-democracy pro-nationalist revolt and election the west would react strongly, they would attack it economically, the security forces that they train and arm would react, etc
>in the african ruling call can figure it out
why would they it is to their benefit to subordinate themselves to power

>why would they it is to their benefit to subordinate themselves to power

so why doesn't korea or vietnam ruling class just sellout their people? the vietnamese ruling class were corrupt toadies, right up until they got fucking killed and the imperialists got expelled from the country, why is it vietnam and korea will fight to the last man to free their country but africans just shrug their shoulders and say "white man's fault can't do nuthin"

the vietnamese were selling out their people

why don't the koreans? because the development was pursued under a powerful state, and today there are businesses that benefit from being in a wealthy industrialised nation

don't you think this kind of hopelessness at the all powerful white man is kind of harmful? like when alt-right trump guys say they can't get ahead because the jews control world capitalism how is that different than saying african can't get ahead because the whites control world capitalism (except where they don't like east asia)

Stop fucking responding to this repetitive fucking thread.

SAGE IN ALL FIELDS.

I'm sick of seing your fucking shelf every day. Take the tips you get and update your shelf before making a new thread. This is not your blog.

>Three great books, albeit in mediocre translations (the Warner Thucydides is especially dreadful)
>A whole shelf of pop-politics garbage

user, this was disappointing.

>don't you think this kind of hopelessness at the all powerful white man is kind of harmful?
It is also the nature of man to make excuses for everything. Why are you here shitposting instead of bettering your life?

i know i'm wasting my life shitposting, i make no excuses, nietzsche helped me let go of resentment and excuses

they need internet addiction groups

someone needs to start a subgenre of hiphop sort of like trap instrumentals by ppl like baauer but that are just motivational shit like that intro to the new meek mill album, i just want a whole album of that, that i can put on whenever i feel unmotivated, if i wasnt such a lazy fuck...well wouldn't we all

>Why are you here shitposting instead of bettering your life?

you wanna know the real reason why? cuz i'm stuck on this one feature of an app i'm working on and i'm avoiding it like a little bitch, i can figure it out, but it will take a few hours of awkward trial and error

whats wrong with the translation?

which works are pop-politics garbage? You surely cant be refering to The Politics of Heroin, Killing Hope, or Legacy of Ashes can you?

>non-fiction
>greek myths

its a historical analysis of them

>haha let me just post my amazing shelf for the 30th time so I can be validated

Why do you keep posting this? I know you added a new book or two but this sort of attention seeking behavior is cringey.

to find recommendations

BARBARIANS BY LAUREN SOUTHERN

How do you need recommendations? If you like philosophy start with the Greeks and work your way up to the German Idealists, that's several years worth of reading alone. If you like history, pick an empire, or time period and read about it. If you like the classics, read the classics. If you like Russian literature, read Russian lit. You couldn't possibly be this helpless and confused as to not know what to read next, this is simply attention seeking behavior...

>peter butt
hehe

how is shadow wars

Looks like you really don't like Amerikan imperialism. Since you know the empire is bad, the logical next step is studying the alternatives in real existing socialism and sorting through their successes and failures. William Hinton wrote great books about China, a good place to start. Or alternatively, you can read about the history of activism to develop in a practical direction, so books like Black Against Empire, Days of Rage, Settlers by J. Sakai. Or you could go in theoretical direction: the foundation of anti-imperialism today is Marx and Lenin and their followers. Good current theorists of imperialism in this tradition are Samir Amin, Zak Cope, and John Smith.

Pretty good, I was not aware of how far back the support for reactionary fundamentalist elements in Islam to counter anti-colonial pro-independence pro-democracy sentiment goes, the well known support for the afghan mujahideen was just one recent case not the start