Gremlins 2 seems like it was tailor made for a Pervert's Guide and I'm genuinely surprised Ziz hasn't done one.
Is it wrong for a leftist to think of right wing thinkers such as Carl Schmitt and Nick Land as true intellectuals...
Nick Land is still a Marxist despite whatever comes out of his mouth post-CCRU, he's just too permanently fucked up from drug and ramen noodle binges to realize his NRx attitude and "insanity" are necessary defense mechanisms in response to the knowledge of what's to come.
On his Urban Future blog, he defined accelerationism with an awesome quote from the Communist Manifesto : ufblog.net
Also, when Jehu (therealmovement.wordpress.com
When he announced that he was leaving Twitter because they put restrictions on his account, Nick posted pic related.
My point being, Nick Land has more than one internet persona. and while I think he may deride Marx in a basic libertarian fashion with one of his accounts, he might also engage with his theory with another one. I think he is consistent in his thinking and is definitely right-wing, but I feel like he unironically pretends to be retarded sometimes, to attract the Scott Alexander fandom into his trap or something. One thing is sure though: he has read Marx.
Essential non-leftist reading for lefties:
Niccolò Machiavelli
Thomas Hobbes
Carl von Clausewitz
Carl Schmitt
Leo Strauss
Henry Kissinger
Add more, comrades.
Clausewitz is pure larp.
Why? Are you going to lead an army equipped with 19th century firearms? I have him and he's pretty cool, but I don't see why he's necessary beyond maybe historical curiosity and how military discipline developed from him
Why is he important?
There's no point to reading Strauss if you've read Heidegger and Schmitt.
Lenin borrowed a lot from Clausewitz for both his political and military doctrine, in fact the concepts of "strategy" and "tactic" when used in a political context stem from him
Friedrich von Hayek, his supporters and his critics. Basically anyone involved in the socialist economic calculation debate
What if everyone on the internet is actually Nick Land?
what if we're all fragments of Nick Land's consciousness shattered after a particularly hard DMT trip?