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*[[File:Camatte.png]] Jacques Camatte 🦗<br>
*[[File:Fisher.png]] Mark Fisher 🎣<br>
*[[File:Debord.png]] Guy Debord 🚬<br>
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{{Quote|A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism.|[[File:Marx.png]] Karl Marx}}
 
==[[File:Marx.png]]  A General Critique of Marxist-Leninist States (WIP)==
The Marxist-Leninist implementation of the communist project is the most venerated communist movement among the various communist parties among the world. Despite the praise given to such a movement, this movement is not the real movement for the liberation of the proletariat, which Marx and Engels spoke of in their original texts, and we can see this through the "socialist commodity production" present within the USSR under the tenure of Joseph Stalin, the theoriser of Marxist-Leninist ideology. We can characterise socialism as the end of the commodity form, as well as the wage-labour system, which under the capitalist mode of production, has become our answer to the basic economic problem of scarcity. It is incorrect to suppose that socialism is merely a stage in which private ownership of the means of production is ended; this is not the fulfillment of the socialist project, otherwise, we would conclude that state capitalism is a form of socialism, which is clearly a false statement. The commodity is defined as having a two-fold value, a use-value, and an exchange-value, with the law of value determining that the value of a commodity is determined by its socially necessary labor time (the amount of time "required to produce an article under the normal conditions of production, and with the average degree of skill and intensity") Despite the nationalisation of industry within the USSR, the economy there still maintained capitalist properties, there was no transcendence of the laws of capitalist economy. Even if we were to suggest the means of production were put in the hands of the labourer, this is of course not the achievement of the socialist project, because without the transcendence of the commodity (which would itself eliminate private ownership of the means of production through the socialisation/decommodification of the MoP), we cannot say socialism exists. Under the USSR, workers were merely wage labourers under ''state'' capitalism.<br><br>But we need to prove this of course, this is multiple useless statements otherwise.<br><br>First, we look at Marx's critique of political economy.
{{Quote|Commodities come into the world in the shape of use values, articles, or goods, such as iron, linen, corn, &c. This is their plain, homely, bodily form. They are, however, commodities, only because they are something two-fold, both objects of utility, and, at the same time, depositories of value. They manifest themselves therefore as commodities, or have the form of commodities, only in so far as they have two forms, a physical or natural form, and a value form.|[[File:Marx.png]] Karl Marx|Capital, Volume 1}}
It is a basic of Marxist ideas that commodities, produced for the specific purpose of being exchanged, have both a use-value and an exchange-value, and the process of commodity production leads to alienation, where labour and its products become detached from the labourers due to the commodified means of production. In the USSR, despite the nationalisation of industries by the state, commodities still followed the law of value, which is not characteristic of a socialist society, as said by Marx in the Critique of the Gotha Programme,
{{Quote|Within the co-operative society based on common ownership of the means of production, the producers do not exchange their products; '''just as little does the labor employed on the products appear here as the value of these products, as a material quality possessed by them''', since now, in contrast to capitalist society, individual labor no longer exists in an indirect fashion but directly as a component part of total labor. |[[File:Marx.png]] Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme}}<br>
It is admitted by Joseph Stalin that the law of value operated within the USSR,
{{Quote|In our country, the sphere of operation of the law of value extends, first of all, to commodity circulation, to the ex-change of commodities through purchase and sale, the ex-change, chiefly, of articles of personal consumption. Here, in this sphere, the law of value preserves, within certain limits, of course, the function of a regulator.|[[File:Stalin.png]] Joseph Stalin, Economic Problems of the USSR}}
Therefore, despite claims of socialism, the USSR retained laws of capitalist economy within its structure, which can be seen as contradictory to Marx's view of socialism. It should not be controversial to suggest that if commodities were produced and those commodities were still subject to the law of value present within capitalist modes of production, the system failed to transcend ''capitalist'' law and therefore failed to achieve socialism, as the economy continued to operate within a framework that Marx opposed in his critique of political economy. Therefore, we can see the USSR as a state capitalist state.<br>
 
==[[File:Marketsoc.png]] A Critique of Market Socialism==
Market socialism has become quite the disappointment, largely because its premise is one made to be as such in the first place. Market socialists subscribe to heterodox thought that markets can exist within a socialist mode of production, which is a completely flawed form of non-orthodoxy, rather than a revolutionary one seen by particularly beautiful revolutionary theorists across the decades. We can see that within the market socialist economy, the means of production are put in the hands of the producers, but this is of course, as noted with any critique of marxist-leninists to ever exist in the history of mankind, the achievement of socialism, it is merely a step, or even a step within a step. The true essence of socialism comes with the transcendence of the commodity form and the end of the system of wage-labour, and is reaffirmed with the end of capitalist law e.g. the law of value. To suggest that market socialism (which can be summarised no less or more than the social democracy with a fantastical love for cooperatives) is a socialist mode of production is an incorrect idea.
 
==[[File:AntiNation.png]] The Nation as a Machine==
 
==Relations==
 
===[[File:Yes.png]] Authentic===
*[[File:Citadel.png]] {{PCBA|The Dysassembly Line}} - Authentic proletarian group detected, happiness injected.
 
===[[File:Meh.png]] Fledgling===


== [[File:Debord.png]] A Suicidal Man, [[File:Fisher.png]] A Suicidal Man, et Marxism-Leninism [[File:ML.png]] ==
===[[File:No.png]] Opportunists===
'''This will be expanded and rephrased later. Not a fan of it.'''<br>
*[[File:Hered.png]] {{PCBA|Heredism}} - Socialism is not the absence of private ownership of the means of production but rather much more, e.g. the transcendence of capitalist law which the USSR failed to do. We do not "confuse commodity production with capitalism", you confuse nationalisation with socialism. Is it so that the Ente Tabacchi Italiano in the Kingdom of Italy showed a commitment to socialism? No, most certainly not, because the capitalist law of value as described by Marx in which the value of a commodity is determined by the socially necessary labour time required to produce it continued. This was the same within the USSR, where the law of value continued alongside commodity production, expanding this nationalisation upon a larger scale does not make the step between the capitalist and socialist mode of production.  
The spectacle is a social relation mediated by images, and it is most notably alienation (estrangement) present within the capitalist mode of production in an advanced form. Let me reiterate; the spectacle must not be reduced to simply a collection of images or the general concept of media - the idea of the spectacle is rather social relations mediated by images. With this mediation, social life has been reduced. Reduced to continuous cycles of passive consumption, and passive observation, rather than active cosumption/observation we religiously worship capitalism for providing. Why is the spectacle an advanced form of alienation? It is because of its abstraction of social relations into representations which mediate lived experience, through the commodity; the production of goods for exchange rather than for consumption, which is eternally present throughout capitalist societies transforms social relations into alienated relations between things. Through the spectacle, not only labour is alienated - human interaction itself has too suffered this alienation at the terror of the commodity. So, in summary, I think we can best describe the society of the spectacle as a society in which all social relations are mediated through images and, of course, the commodity. The consequence of the society of the spectacle is the detachment of ourselves from our direct experiences, presenting us with a life of passivity. The spectacle is special in that sense that it doesn't just alienate labor, but alienates life itself. (Yes I know that was a lot of repetition, fuck you and whatever football team you support..)<br><br>
The concept of the spectacle can be drawn back to Marx's idea of commodity fetishism, as part of his social analysis of the capitalist mode of production. You probably already know this but commodity fetishism is that way in which the social relations within production appear as relations between commodities rather than between people, alienating labourer from their labour. Commodity fetishism obscures the social relations which produce the commodity, giving the commodities an appearingly independent, intrinsic value independent of the socially necessary labour time for their production. The spectacle is rampant and mad fetishism, fetishism to the extreme, whatever you may title it - it is commodity fetishism applied to an expanded idea of the commodity - social life is a commodity, experience is a commodity. The spectacle turns all aspects of our existence into something to be exchanged, or represented through imagery. In this fashion, the alienation of the worker from the product of their labor in capitalist society has evolved into the alienation of the individual from their own life under the society of the spectacle. Alienation has escaped the workplace.<br><br>
Now then - Mark Fisher, my favorite suicide man, not to be confused with [[File:Debord.png]] the best cigarette-smoking suicide man. I believe this idea of a passive experience present within the situationist's theory can be tied to Fisher's theory of capitalist realism. They of course share initial connections as they are both critiques of capitalist domination over social life, but digging deeper is necessary. Fisher speaks of the ideologically pervasive frontier of capitalism, where capitalism presents itself as the only viable economic system, whilst the situationists speak of the society of the spectacle where capital holds domination over social life. Two separate but connected frontiers. We can say that through the spectacle, capitalism reinforces its own legitimacy (this capitalist realism) by shaping how people perceive reality (as with the case of the fetishism of commodities), making it appear as if the capitalist mode of production is not just dominant but natural and inevitable. (like how business is seen as natural and obvious through business ontology.) The spectacle is a sociocultural as well as an ideological structure which supports capitalist realism, upholding the capitalist mode of production, and turning us into mere passive observers of what could be our own life. Both capitalist realism and the spectacle are able to naturalise alienation to the herd. There is no more political imagination, we cannot free our desire, we have lost our future through the eternalisation of this miserable present. Lost futures are futures that could have been, but the society of the spectacle has crippled reality.<br><br>


== [[File:Book.png]] {{BoldText|Reading List}} ==
===[[File:Mega_No.png]] Karl Kautsky===
'''note: i've read more than this i just can't be arsed to list it all so yeah'''
*[[File:Marloweicon.png]] {{PCBA|Indenforism}} - Really cool art and an awesome person, but terribly depressing ideology. Capitalism causes people to become archetypes and lose their meaning, there is no hope under the capitalist mode of production for the individualistic liberation the libertarian movement claims to desire.. I do not want to be the wolf of wall street, the corporate drone, nor the entrepreneur. I wish to be I but I is slain, I is gone, I died when it entered this civilisation. Transhumanism is an added eh, sure, it removes the idea of a sacred human body to uphold, but it then merely replaces it with a new thing, so yeah really doesn't transgress enough boundaries.
*[[File:CapRealism.png]] Capitalist Realism
**(Book recommendation: [[File:PLB-Liechtenstein.png]] Immigration und Integration in Liechtenstein)
*[[File:Debord.png]] Society of the Spectacle
*[[File:Nitrismlol.png]] {{PCBA|Nitrism}} - One of the ''better?'' ethnonationalists I've seen. Still absolutely disgusting howeverbeit. Kaczynski's critique of leftism is acceptable; the oversocialised nature of people on the left due to internalised morality is quite a strong argument. I am against the leftists, those being the conformist liberals who don't really do anything but shout for recognition that they are on the non-existent "right side of history". Hghhh I'm bored. You know what, fuck it, let's critique you from a common angle, that'll be fun. Question One. Can't we see nationalism as contributing to a new oversocialisation? The nation's job as a thought machine is to standardise, or "homogenise", the desire, the thoughts, and the behaviours, of those who subscribe to it. The nation acts in this generalising way, similar to the common humanist thought of today, and is...quite similar to the oversocialisation Kaczynski critiques, I would say. Question Two. You speak of testosterone as the primary element that defines masculinity in your paragraph "Masculinity". The glorification of physical strength and courage here - the masculinity you speak so highly of- is merely a surrogate activity. Kaczynski saw highly the pointlessness in the society we currently live in, and here you completley smack him in the ass (despite your claim to love him). The man must engage in masculinity to protect themselves from this existential dread, the man must ritualise the nation as another surrogate activity! Remember what Kaczynski said in Indust: {{Quote|A surrogate activity is an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that the individual pursues for the sake of the “fulfillment” that he gets from pursuing the goal, not because he needs to attain the goal itself. For instance, there is no practical motive for building enormous muscles, hitting a little ball into a hole or acquiring a complete series of postage stamps. Yet many people in our society devote themselves with passion to bodybuilding, golf or stamp-collecting. Some people are more “other-directed” than others, and therefore will more readily attach importance to a surrogate activity simply because the people around them treat it as important or because society tells them it is important. That is why some people get very serious about essentially trivial activities such as sports, or bridge, or chess, or arcane scholarly pursuits, whereas others who are more clear-sighted never see these things as anything but the surrogate activities that they are, and consequently never attach enough importance to them to satisfy their need for the power process in that way.|[[File:Ted Kaczynski.png]] Ted Kaczynski}}
*[[File:Stirner.png]] The Unique and its Property
*[[File:MLKD.png]] [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxism-Leninism-Kautskyism-Dengism]] - Get the gun...get the fucking gun!
*[[File:Camatte.png]] Against Domestication
*{{Luisism}} - He who likes Furry Femboys ~ Occo


=== [[File:Book.png]] {{BoldText|Currently Reading}} ===
==Reading List==
*[[File:Communization.png]] From Crisis to Communization
**Adieu to disappointment and spleen
*[[File:Camatte.png]] Capital and Community
**The forms of value and the definition of capital


=== [[File:Book.png]] {{BoldText|Upcoming}} ===
===Read===
*[[File:Marx.png]] The Communist Manifesto
*[[File:Marx.png]] Value Price and Profit
*[[File:Marx.png]] Wage Labour and Capital
*[[File:Marx.png]] Critique of the Gotha Programme
*[[File:Marx.png]] The German Ideology
*[[File:Acidcomf.png]] Capitalist Realism
*[[File:Stirner.png]] The Unique and its Property
*[[File:Accel.png]] The Wandering of Humanity
*[[File:Bataille.png]] The Accursed Share (Requires re-reading)
*[[File:LeftCom.png]] Marxism and Gramscism
*[[File:LeftCom.png]] Introduction to the Politics of the Internationalist Communist Tendency
*[[File:LeftCom.png]] The Fundamentals for a Marxist Orientation
*[[File:LeftCom.png]] The Balkan War
*[[File:Orthlen.png]] The State and Revolution
*[[File:ML.png]] Foundations of Leninism


=== [[File:Armchair-template.png]] {{BoldText|Useful Shit}} ===
===Reading===
*[[File:Auton.png]] Communists Like Us
*[[File:Bataille.png]] '''Erotism: Death and Sensuality'''
*[[File:Auton.png]] Workers & Capital
**[[File:Transgression.png]] '''Taboo and Transgression (Part One)''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Andrew Culp.png]] Dark Deleuze
***[[File:Eroticism.png]] Eroticism in Inner Experience
*[[File:Andrew Culp.png]] Accelerationism and the Need for Speed
***[[File:Transgression.png]] Taboos and Transgressions
*[[File:Landstreicher.png]] Barbaric Thoughts
***[[File:Eroticism.png]] The Link Between Taboos and Death
*[[File:Camatte.png]] Origin and Function of the Party Form
***[[File:Sexocracy.png]] Taboos Related to Reproduction
*[[File:Camatte.png]] The Democratic Mystification
***[[File:Transgression.png]] Transgression
*[[File:Rousseau.png]] The Social Contract
***[[File:Transgression.png]] Murder, Hunting and War
***[[File:Transgression.png]] Murder and Sacrifice
***[[File:Religious.png]] From Religious Sacrifice to Eroticism
***[[File:Sexocracy.png]] Sexual Plethora and Death
***[[File:Transgression.png]] Transgression in Marriage and in Orgy
***[[File:Christy.png]] Christianity
***[[File:Eroticism.png]] The Object of Desire: Prostitution
***[[File:Eroticism.png]] Beauty
}}
**[[File:Eroticism.png]] '''Some Aspects of Eroticism (Part Two)''' {{Collapse|
***[[File:Eroticism.png]] Kinsey The Underworld and Work
}}
**'''Currently Reading:''' De Sade's Sovereign Man
*[[File:Bataille.png]] '''The Accursed Share'''


=== [[File:Philosophy.png]] {{BoldText|The Greeks Started Thinking about Stuff}} ===
===To be Read===
*[[File:Kant.png]] Critique of Pure Reason
*[[File:Schopenhauer.png]] The World As Will And Idea
*[[File:Nietzsche.png]] On the Genealogy of Morality
*[[File:Nietzsche.png]] On the Genealogy of Morality
*[[File:Nietzsche.png]] Beyond Good and Evil
*[[File:Marx.png]] A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
*[[File:Nietzsche.png]] The Antichrist
*[[File:ML.png]] Economic Problems of the USSR
*[[File:Bordiga alt.png]] Dialogue with Stalin
*[[File:Gentile.png]] The Theory of Mind as Pure Act (boring ahh book)

Latest revision as of 15:45, 17 November 2024





A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism.

Karl Marx


A General Critique of Marxist-Leninist States (WIP)

The Marxist-Leninist implementation of the communist project is the most venerated communist movement among the various communist parties among the world. Despite the praise given to such a movement, this movement is not the real movement for the liberation of the proletariat, which Marx and Engels spoke of in their original texts, and we can see this through the "socialist commodity production" present within the USSR under the tenure of Joseph Stalin, the theoriser of Marxist-Leninist ideology. We can characterise socialism as the end of the commodity form, as well as the wage-labour system, which under the capitalist mode of production, has become our answer to the basic economic problem of scarcity. It is incorrect to suppose that socialism is merely a stage in which private ownership of the means of production is ended; this is not the fulfillment of the socialist project, otherwise, we would conclude that state capitalism is a form of socialism, which is clearly a false statement. The commodity is defined as having a two-fold value, a use-value, and an exchange-value, with the law of value determining that the value of a commodity is determined by its socially necessary labor time (the amount of time "required to produce an article under the normal conditions of production, and with the average degree of skill and intensity") Despite the nationalisation of industry within the USSR, the economy there still maintained capitalist properties, there was no transcendence of the laws of capitalist economy. Even if we were to suggest the means of production were put in the hands of the labourer, this is of course not the achievement of the socialist project, because without the transcendence of the commodity (which would itself eliminate private ownership of the means of production through the socialisation/decommodification of the MoP), we cannot say socialism exists. Under the USSR, workers were merely wage labourers under state capitalism.

But we need to prove this of course, this is multiple useless statements otherwise.

First, we look at Marx's critique of political economy.

Commodities come into the world in the shape of use values, articles, or goods, such as iron, linen, corn, &c. This is their plain, homely, bodily form. They are, however, commodities, only because they are something two-fold, both objects of utility, and, at the same time, depositories of value. They manifest themselves therefore as commodities, or have the form of commodities, only in so far as they have two forms, a physical or natural form, and a value form.

Karl Marx, Capital, Volume 1


It is a basic of Marxist ideas that commodities, produced for the specific purpose of being exchanged, have both a use-value and an exchange-value, and the process of commodity production leads to alienation, where labour and its products become detached from the labourers due to the commodified means of production. In the USSR, despite the nationalisation of industries by the state, commodities still followed the law of value, which is not characteristic of a socialist society, as said by Marx in the Critique of the Gotha Programme,

Within the co-operative society based on common ownership of the means of production, the producers do not exchange their products; just as little does the labor employed on the products appear here as the value of these products, as a material quality possessed by them, since now, in contrast to capitalist society, individual labor no longer exists in an indirect fashion but directly as a component part of total labor.

Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme


It is admitted by Joseph Stalin that the law of value operated within the USSR,

In our country, the sphere of operation of the law of value extends, first of all, to commodity circulation, to the ex-change of commodities through purchase and sale, the ex-change, chiefly, of articles of personal consumption. Here, in this sphere, the law of value preserves, within certain limits, of course, the function of a regulator.

Joseph Stalin, Economic Problems of the USSR


Therefore, despite claims of socialism, the USSR retained laws of capitalist economy within its structure, which can be seen as contradictory to Marx's view of socialism. It should not be controversial to suggest that if commodities were produced and those commodities were still subject to the law of value present within capitalist modes of production, the system failed to transcend capitalist law and therefore failed to achieve socialism, as the economy continued to operate within a framework that Marx opposed in his critique of political economy. Therefore, we can see the USSR as a state capitalist state.

A Critique of Market Socialism

Market socialism has become quite the disappointment, largely because its premise is one made to be as such in the first place. Market socialists subscribe to heterodox thought that markets can exist within a socialist mode of production, which is a completely flawed form of non-orthodoxy, rather than a revolutionary one seen by particularly beautiful revolutionary theorists across the decades. We can see that within the market socialist economy, the means of production are put in the hands of the producers, but this is of course, as noted with any critique of marxist-leninists to ever exist in the history of mankind, the achievement of socialism, it is merely a step, or even a step within a step. The true essence of socialism comes with the transcendence of the commodity form and the end of the system of wage-labour, and is reaffirmed with the end of capitalist law e.g. the law of value. To suggest that market socialism (which can be summarised no less or more than the social democracy with a fantastical love for cooperatives) is a socialist mode of production is an incorrect idea.

The Nation as a Machine

Relations

Authentic

Fledgling

Opportunists

  • Heredism - Socialism is not the absence of private ownership of the means of production but rather much more, e.g. the transcendence of capitalist law which the USSR failed to do. We do not "confuse commodity production with capitalism", you confuse nationalisation with socialism. Is it so that the Ente Tabacchi Italiano in the Kingdom of Italy showed a commitment to socialism? No, most certainly not, because the capitalist law of value as described by Marx in which the value of a commodity is determined by the socially necessary labour time required to produce it continued. This was the same within the USSR, where the law of value continued alongside commodity production, expanding this nationalisation upon a larger scale does not make the step between the capitalist and socialist mode of production.

Karl Kautsky

  • Indenforism - Really cool art and an awesome person, but terribly depressing ideology. Capitalism causes people to become archetypes and lose their meaning, there is no hope under the capitalist mode of production for the individualistic liberation the libertarian movement claims to desire.. I do not want to be the wolf of wall street, the corporate drone, nor the entrepreneur. I wish to be I but I is slain, I is gone, I died when it entered this civilisation. Transhumanism is an added eh, sure, it removes the idea of a sacred human body to uphold, but it then merely replaces it with a new thing, so yeah really doesn't transgress enough boundaries.
    • (Book recommendation: Immigration und Integration in Liechtenstein)
  • Nitrism - One of the better? ethnonationalists I've seen. Still absolutely disgusting howeverbeit. Kaczynski's critique of leftism is acceptable; the oversocialised nature of people on the left due to internalised morality is quite a strong argument. I am against the leftists, those being the conformist liberals who don't really do anything but shout for recognition that they are on the non-existent "right side of history". Hghhh I'm bored. You know what, fuck it, let's critique you from a common angle, that'll be fun. Question One. Can't we see nationalism as contributing to a new oversocialisation? The nation's job as a thought machine is to standardise, or "homogenise", the desire, the thoughts, and the behaviours, of those who subscribe to it. The nation acts in this generalising way, similar to the common humanist thought of today, and is...quite similar to the oversocialisation Kaczynski critiques, I would say. Question Two. You speak of testosterone as the primary element that defines masculinity in your paragraph "Masculinity". The glorification of physical strength and courage here - the masculinity you speak so highly of- is merely a surrogate activity. Kaczynski saw highly the pointlessness in the society we currently live in, and here you completley smack him in the ass (despite your claim to love him). The man must engage in masculinity to protect themselves from this existential dread, the man must ritualise the nation as another surrogate activity! Remember what Kaczynski said in Indust:

A surrogate activity is an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that the individual pursues for the sake of the “fulfillment” that he gets from pursuing the goal, not because he needs to attain the goal itself. For instance, there is no practical motive for building enormous muscles, hitting a little ball into a hole or acquiring a complete series of postage stamps. Yet many people in our society devote themselves with passion to bodybuilding, golf or stamp-collecting. Some people are more “other-directed” than others, and therefore will more readily attach importance to a surrogate activity simply because the people around them treat it as important or because society tells them it is important. That is why some people get very serious about essentially trivial activities such as sports, or bridge, or chess, or arcane scholarly pursuits, whereas others who are more clear-sighted never see these things as anything but the surrogate activities that they are, and consequently never attach enough importance to them to satisfy their need for the power process in that way.

Ted Kaczynski


Reading List

Read

  • The Communist Manifesto
  • Value Price and Profit
  • Wage Labour and Capital
  • Critique of the Gotha Programme
  • The German Ideology
  • Capitalist Realism
  • The Unique and its Property
  • The Wandering of Humanity
  • The Accursed Share (Requires re-reading)
  • Marxism and Gramscism
  • Introduction to the Politics of the Internationalist Communist Tendency
  • The Fundamentals for a Marxist Orientation
  • The Balkan War
  • The State and Revolution
  • Foundations of Leninism

Reading

  • Erotism: Death and Sensuality
    • Taboo and Transgression (Part One)
      • Eroticism in Inner Experience
      • Taboos and Transgressions
      • The Link Between Taboos and Death
      • Taboos Related to Reproduction
      • Transgression
      • Murder, Hunting and War
      • Murder and Sacrifice
      • From Religious Sacrifice to Eroticism
      • Sexual Plethora and Death
      • Transgression in Marriage and in Orgy
      • Christianity
      • The Object of Desire: Prostitution
      • Beauty
    • Some Aspects of Eroticism (Part Two)
      • Kinsey The Underworld and Work
    • Currently Reading: De Sade's Sovereign Man
  • The Accursed Share

To be Read

  • On the Genealogy of Morality
  • A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
  • Economic Problems of the USSR
  • Dialogue with Stalin
  • The Theory of Mind as Pure Act (boring ahh book)