Something to Chew On

[Dimokratia]

The Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7591.

1. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
2. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
3. Quotations of Chairman Mao a.k.a. "The Little Red Book" by Mao Tse-Tung
4. The Kinsey Report: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred Kinsey
5. Democracy and Education by John Dewey
6. Das Kapital by Karl Marx
7. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
8. The Course of Positive Philosophy by Auguste Comte
9. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
10.General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes

[rioters bloc]

haha full on! marx before hitler? too funny.

[drain.you]

Sorry asked a stupid question so now I'll destroy the evidence of doing so lol

[FleasTheLemur]

Wow. Sans Mien Kauf, that was the most reactionary bullshit booklist ever written. Attacking both radical left and the diet left? Hmm. I motion that we create the top ten most retard right wing books of the Industrial/Information Era.

[novemba]

that can't be a list cause lists are scientific and thats not

[Gunman]

That has to be one of the most biased lists ever. Come on, "The Evil Empire of Soviet Union put the communist manifesto in practice"?! If this isn´t bias, then I don´t know what´s bias.

[rioters bloc]

bah i dont think anyone is saying its not biased. the kinsey report? the feminine mystique? someone really seems to hate sexual liberation.

[Commie Rat]

ahahahahhahahahhaha
the only book that deserves to be there is the Mein Kampf
OoOoh the 'Evil Empire' the communism created

[YKTMX]

The term 'harmful book' is stupid. Someone can read Mein Kampf (like me) and realise it's just a total piece of shit, the useless whining of a repressed Austrian fuck with penis-envy. Others may think it's a great treatise on the Judeo-Bolshevist conspiracy to take over the world and be inspired to join the Nationalist right. One's reaction to a book is predicated on what you think before you open it. Of course some books can change your views, thus changing your reaction to the next book you read, but at the end of the day unless you're "open" to Nazism, or indeed to Marxism, you're not going to be changed by a book.

I know lots of people that have studied Marxist social theory at Univeristy, read loads of Marxist literature and wrote essay papers on Marxism, but are still not Marxist or even political.

[Amusing Scrotum]

I've never read it, but apparently Mein Kampf is a very bland book, very uninspiring and poorly written.

Though their best review has to be the review of "The Course of Positive Philosophy" -


Comte, the product of a royalist Catholic family that survived the French Revolution, turned his back on his political and cultural heritage, announcing as a teenager, “I have naturally ceased to believe in God.” Later, in the six volumes of The Course of Positive Philosophy, he coined the term “sociology.” He did so while theorizing that the human mind had developed beyond “theology” (a belief that there is a God who governs the universe), through “metaphysics” (in this case defined as the French revolutionaries’ reliance on abstract assertions of “rights” without a God), to “positivism,” in which man alone, through scientific observation, could determine the way things ought to be.

They make me want to read the book. :lol:

Though whats really amusing is that they seem to think that using science to determine things is absurd, as if it was God that created the internet on which their site is on and not science.

How is it possible that anyone can take these people seriously? :unsure: