fascist writing vs communist writing

[Dóchas]

iv been going around some book shops and libraries looking for the communist manifesto and other communist writings and there seems to be a regular occurence is that ther always seems to be more fascist books than communist. in my local book shop there was one book on stalin and the rest was either mein kempf or some other nazi bullshit. i was just wondering why do you think that in a capitalist society they would sell more fascist than communist literature?

EDIT-its the same with education i dont know about your schools but when we were learning about WW2 we learnt about mussolini and hitler and only a mention of Stalin

[AAFCE]

Fascist literature sells more than any leftist literature usually does.

All the time at school I hear people talking about buying Mein Kampf and never any leftist books.

[Dóchas]

it really pisses me off, why wud someone want to buy a book about a guy that killed over 6million people and has the worst moustache possible? i just dont get it!!

[Holden Caulfield]

i've only ever came across the opposite, not that i want nazi books,
maybe its the shops you go to?

[Mindtoaster]

i've only ever came across the opposite, not that i want nazi books,
maybe its the shops you go to?

This is my experience as well. Whenever I travel I tend to always wind up visiting the local book stores at least once. I can't actually recall seeing Mein Kamph more then once. Theres always a lot of writing from Marx and modern leftists such as Chomsky

[Trystan]

There are usually more theoretical books on Marxism and other lefty stuff than there are books on fascist theory. Then again there's not much theory to fascism. They usually have more on fascism in the history section though.

[AAFCE]

It took my local bookstore almost 2 months to order a copy of the Communist Manifesto.

But you can walk in and get Nazi literature, along with all sorts of White Nationalist materials.

[Melbourne Lefty]

Never seen any fascist stuff other than Mein Kampf, socialist and libertarian lit is in almost every bookshop you go to round here.

I guess we won the battle of the Bookshops!:cool:

[Holden Caulfield]

It took my local bookstore almost 2 months to order a copy of the Communist Manifesto.

But you can walk in and get Nazi literature, along with all sorts of White Nationalist materials.
maybe it is because of the nature of American politics? anti-communism etc, i could get the Manifesto from loads of shops here and even in Carlisle the culturally devoid hole it is

[Vlad tdf]

you should be happy even for finding communist writings(books) i order them on the internet nothing in my city Das Capital is so hard to find i just have it for two days and it was all broken:(

[Dystisis]

Fascist literature sells more than any leftist literature usually does.

All the time at school I hear people talking about buying Mein Kampf and never any leftist books.
What? Where do you live, USA?

[AAFCE]

What? Where do you live, USA?

Yep, Arkansas.

Down south

[#FF0000]

Yep, Arkansas.

Down south

Well then that explains everything.

A lot of books Libraries have are books people requested, so it's pretty likely, especially if you live in a hyper-conservative area, that people are ordering it.

[Raúl Duke]

I don't know...in Florida I still come across leftist stuff (although they don't have much titles available) more so the fascist stuff.

In Puerto Rico, the English leftist stuff is also somewhat slim but you can find many kinds in Spanish especially for anarchism (for some odd reason; I've never heard of a sizable anarchist presence anywhere in Puerto Rico...).

[RHIZOMES]

I usually see more leftist books than fascist, wtf kind of place do you live in?

[Incendiarism]

I do my book shopping online because I wouldn't find what I was looking for looking around down here.

[Os Cangaceiros]

There's a lot of leftist books around where I currently live. (NY)

I did see Mein Kampf in the university book store here, though. I picked it up and read a bit of it, although I kinda felt self-conscious about it. I shouldn't have, but I did...I didn't want people to get the idea that I was a Nazi or something. :lol:

I didn't find it to be a very good book, personally. Hitler wasn't a very good writer.

[Bilan]

Mein Kampf = huge ramble.

I've only ever found it on the internet, though. Never have I seen a paper copy of Mein Kampf or any other Nazi trash, really.

[Holden Caulfield]

Mein Kampf = huge ramble.

indeed, read it, its shite, not because im ideologically disgusted by it just because Hitler is no author

[Sasha]

did you ever see his watercolours? if you thought his writing was crap you should see his paintings :lol:

[Holden Caulfield]

did you ever see his watercolours? if you thought his writing was crap you should see his paintings :lol:
no i'll look them up, i find it amusing that the men at the 'top' of the Bolshevik party (Lenin, Trotsky, Bukharin etc) can be considered to be amongst the greatest minds of their era where as at the head of the Nazi party you have a failed artist and a failed chicken farmer who met at some nerdy folklore class

[Sasha]

yeah, too bad he didn't suck at being an murderous dictator, he sure didn't fail that one.

[Catbus]

it really pisses me off, why wud someone want to buy a book about a guy that killed over 6million people and has the worst moustache possible? i just dont get it!!


Hey hey hey, Charley Chaplains 'stache was the pinnacle of moustachyness back in the day.

Anyway, I've never found too many faschist writings around my area, most of the used book stores I go to have loads of leftist writings from Marx, Kropotkin, Rocker, ad infinitum. Then again I've never specifically looked for Mein Kampf or whatever other faschist books there are.

[Bilan]

http://ecommwire.com/primages/painting.jpg

Painting by Hitler.
He wasn't a bad painter, I don't think. Just a terrible human being. Kind of like a much worse version of Salvador Dali.
Obviously, Dali was a far, far better painter and sculptor (Then again, Dali was probably one of the best ever) than Hitler, but I mean...they're both good artists, terrible human beings.

[Os Cangaceiros]

http://www.adolfthegreat.com/site/fileadmin/Image_Archive/artist-art/watercolor-1912.jpg

Another one by Adolph.

I agree, he wasn't a bad painter. He was fairly skilled...many people can paint like that, but he seemed to know the craft, at least.

Most of his paintings seem to be buildings and landscapes.

[Dóchas]

obviously im lookin in the wrong places because all im finding is nazi shit but thanks for the help