Also, I don't just mean they are reactionary in certain area or in their personal life (Like Aristotle was important for biology despite being an apologies for slavery)?

I mean worth looking into their thinking precisely in areas where they're reactionary.

Possible suggestions (not saying they're justified) that I expect people would put forward include:

  • Carl Scmitt
  • Heidegger
  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    There's The Turner Diaries. Fascist paramilitaries in the US keep on reenacting scenes from the book, and as we all know, the US is the number one exporter of fascism. Don't be surprised if your local domestic fascists (for those of you who are not in the US) are taking cues from the book as well. There's also books on counterinsurgency. Besides counterinsurgency manuals released by the US military, you also have books like Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice by David Galula.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I've read it and I don't know how valuable it would be to anyone. It's supposed to act as an instruction manual, but really it just reminded me of those guys like 15 years ago who were obsessed with zombie apocalypse planning. Just very basic outright advice about how to use roads or you should boil water before drinking it. You should have a group held together with a command structure. You should occupy terrain and arrange a defense before your enemy gets there. It's all such very generic advice, and furthermore the book is very cautious about which particular variety of white nationalism it's espousing. There's no advanced theory behind it, the reader is simply to assume white nationalism is superior to anything else.

      You might be right in terms of using it to identify fascists, or how much shit has hit the fan. When scenes from it leak into real life, there's problems.