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I read all the leftist theory when I was a teenager-- then I read all the rightist theory when I was a "young adult"-- now I am an actual adult & I have transcended the dialectic.
Read Spengler & Marx
Read Burke & Proudhon
Read Rousseau & De Maistre
Read Herzen & Dostoevsky
Read Wyndham Lewis & GB Shaw
etc
There& #39;s no good reason to ghettoize your understanding by cloistering it in one "culture space" without understanding the dialectic.
Read Burke & Proudhon
Read Rousseau & De Maistre
Read Herzen & Dostoevsky
Read Wyndham Lewis & GB Shaw
etc
There& #39;s no good reason to ghettoize your understanding by cloistering it in one "culture space" without understanding the dialectic.
Rightist theory is in dialogue with Leftist theory & vice versa-- they& #39;re part of the *same project*-- which is the production of answers to the fundamental problems of the time! It& #39;s extremely stupid to "pick your answers" to the problems without engaging with the QUESTIONS.
Ultimately-- you& #39;re going to be lead all the way back to Plato & Aristotle-- & from their you& #39;re going to be lead all the way through Antiquity to Modernity-- & all of it is relevant-- the era of German Idealism still leans most heavily on our contemporary debates.
To just arbitrarily select "the good guys" & ignore "the bad guys" is re*arded. "I read Schopenhauer & Nietzsche so I don& #39;t need to understand Kant & Hegel" (despite Kant informing S/N & their philosophies being created in diametric opposition to Hegel)
"I read Deleuze & Baudrillard so I don& #39;t have to read Wittgenstein & McLuhan"-- lazy ppo justifying this "heuristic" of delimited understanding so that they can keep their sense of certainty in the provisional answers they champion (without engaging further with the QUESTIONS)
Personally-- I had never even engaged with "Right Wing Theory" until I was about 18-- prior to that I had read a vast array of "leftist theory" without even understanding the "other side of the debate"-- I& #39;d read Marx, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin &c-- but not Junger Heidegger &c
I think if you& #39;re in the opposite camp-- having read what, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Cioran, Evola, Guenon (trads) or Hayek, Popper, Mises, Nozick, Strauss (right libs)-- but not their equivalents on "the other side"-- you& #39;re missing tons of relevant context.
Ppo like Georges Sorel is extremely influential on both the "Right" & "Left"-- if you read Wyndham Lewis& #39;s "The Art of Being Ruled"-- he& #39;s not just "citing right wing thought"-- he& #39;s creating a synthetic reading of a wide array of Left & Right thought.
