What is the most wrongthink book you've ever read?

[Lemmingwiser]

Try to not just name the book, but also why it is taboo and give some idea of why people should or shouldn't read it.


I'll kick things off with these:

The curse of canaan: a demonology of history. I found it hard to believe many of the assertions. Eustace Mullins was perhaps better known for his work on the federal reserve or as protege of far right poet Ezra Pound. Would not recommend unless you really want to go off deep into rabbit holes.
This book is hard to find unless downloaded. On goodreads it has the "conspiracy" tag and

The Corona Deception. A dutch book written by dutch politician Thierry Baudet on how the public was misled. Every year the Dutch railway awards a book with the public's prize, whrre people get to vote on the 6 best selling books of that year. This book was in the lead, but they claimed that the voting process had been manipulated and refused to award any book with the price last year. Like with most of his books, I'm left wanting both less and more, much like with his mentor Roger Scruton. I'm always left with the thought that the diagnosis is 100%, but the suggested cures are lacking.

Gulag archipelago, aleksandr solzhenitsyen. Not a very brave choice, but still a book very taboo for a long time where it was written because it exposed the soviet union's deep corruption. It's heartwrenching to read what man is capable of inflicting on man.

Unabomber manifesto, ted kazcynski. Again not a very obscure choice, but there is something about men who risk so much to spread what they have to say. Particularly his takes on professors, leftists, academic freedom and feminism I found worth reading.

 

[Spud]

I bought the Culture of Critique. Haven't started yet but I hear it's good

 

[Lemmingwiser]

Oh and I almost forgot.

Behind the veil by Timothy Silver. He uses purely public and mainstream sources to prove that the american deep state was officially established, only with different terminology. If there is one book I wish I could get everyone to read it's this one.

I bought the Culture of Critique. Haven't started yet but I hear it's good

I only got a couple of chapters in years ago. I really missed a lot of sourcing for claims, like the claim that historically jews sought to marry their daughters off to sages.

The fact that his detractors don't criticize him much on the facts means he's probably broadly right about a lot of stuff, but I found it hard to continue without having ways to verify or falsify claims.

 

[shameful existence]

Out of mainstream books it would be The Blank Slate. Pinker is very eloquent with his delivery, but the consequences of what's presented, if taken seriously, can't quite coexist with the values modern society is built on.

 

[melty]

The History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of the Human Race: it's banned for being antisemitic. I thought it might have some interesting stuff about bankers and our financial system, but it really is just antisemitic. Don't recommend.

The Unabomber manifesto: this one is actually good, I recommend it to everyone.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Camp of the Saints: a dystopia-turned-reality about how waves of immigration from the third world slowly but surely overwhelm Europe.

Industrial Society and its Future: like many people here, I've read Professor Kazcynski's essay.

The Prince: it assumes humans are innately evil and selfish, which flies in the face of today's zeitgeist of "humans are basically good".

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

the unabomber manifesto is one i recently read. and the only one which might be considered wrong think in the west.
if you count books banned in the soviet union then for me it is: 'We' by yevgeny zamyatin and 'Doctor Zhivago'. i believe they also banned things like 'Brave New World' which i have read, and if so you can add that to my list.
i could also include free market economic writings by people like federic bastiat since the soviet union also banned the general public from reading any pro market/anit communist writings.
ive read a few things which are wrong think to commies but not much which would be banned or looked down on by western audiences.

 

[Meat Target]

Pat Buchanan's Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War. It shows that both world wars could have been prevented, had it not been for heavy-handed Anglo-American hegemony and the Treaty of Versailles.

It also shows the dark side of Wilson, Churchill, and FDR. Rather than "brave leaders standing against fascism in defense of democracy", they were some of the OG chickenhawks and interventionists, and undermined several efforts at maintaining peace.

They set in motion an over-correction of the error of peace through appeasement. Hence, the West has had nearly a century of ill-fated military misadventures due to this notion that every third-world, minor-league despot is the Second Coming of Hitler unless we stop it.

 

[Synthetic Smug]

The Turner Diaries. It was okay for what it was but very much felt like Walter Mitty imagining his own Beer Hall Putsch.

I suppose LaVey's books would count but they seem like an attempt to explain Jack London to protestants in hindsight.

 

[Lemmingwiser]

I always thought that kiwifarms (or at least the parts I frequent) are very unabomber friendly, but it is even more so than I thought.

Out of mainstream books it would be The Blank Slate. Pinker is very eloquent with his delivery, but the consequences of what's presented, if taken seriously, can't quite coexist with the values modern society is built on.

Oh shit. I saw it and presumed he was defending it.

 

[seri0us]

The Turner Diaries. It was okay for what it was but very much felt like Walter Mitty imagining his own Beer Hall Putsch.

I read that one too to see what all the fuss was about. It got cartoony and dumb really quick.

 

[Norbert the Tiger]

Hellstorm--about Allied and Society war crimes against Germans..Also a terrible revenge by de Zayas.

Pat Buchanan's Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War.

Kevin MacDonald Culture of Critique AND Separation and its Discontents AND Cultural in Iconoclasts, a series of essays on Judaism.

More of an essay but F Roger Devlin's Sexual Utopia in Power.....

I have Imperium by Yockey but have yet to read it....

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

Inb4 someone mentions the book which rhymes with combined spleen masturbatey whore

 

[BirdUp]

anti-tech revolution: why and how — theodore kaczynski
technological slavery — theodore kaczynski
the human zoo — desmond morris
busting myths about the state and the libertarian alternative — zack rofer

but you dont read anti-tech revolution or anything else by kaczynski like an ordinary book
you have to study his writings like a textbook while combining it with truths from morris and rofer

 

[Moja Zemlja]

I like consuming history through memoirs and autobiographies so I don't really have anything too out there, at most I have Ian Smith's The Great Betrayal? Its a pretty interesting learning about his life and his reasons behind UDI.

 

[Troonos]

Scrooge McDuck: The Richest Duck in the World.

 

[GenericEdgelordSupreme]

Might Is Right by Ragnar Redbeard. Basically a skinhead manual, but it makes some compelling points.

 

[Unique User Name]

I know a lot of people here like the Ted K stuff, but to make this even more of a fed honey pot I'll say that I always liked reading the Timothy McVeigh correspondences ever since I read his short and sweet statement at his sentencing.

"If the court please, I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead to speak for me. He wrote, `Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.' That's all I have,"

He seems to charm journos in the same way Ted Bundy used to charm judges and lawyers. I just wish all these letters were compiled some place more accessible, I usually just come across 20 year old articles that have snippets in them, but I never really put in too much effort to see if something more unabridged exists.

The Prison Letters of Timothy McVeigh

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The guy invites Gore Vidal of all people to his execution. And has the Cassandra of all quotes when you look at the Epstein case years later, even though he was simply recounting the more tepid Trentadue case.

With all these systems, I have no doubt that, were I ever killed (not suggesting such an atmosphere exists, but there's always a "renegade" in every crowd)—there would be a system-wide "malfunction" that day.

Probably an interesting biography subject for someone who has no fucks left to give.

 

[Catgirl Enthusiast]

Mein Kampf. I recommend the Ford translation. Whether you want to take a stand for or against fascism you should really read that book first. It could change your mind.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

Democracy: The God The Failed - Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The first book I read that conclusively proved democracy is the problem and that the system is unfixable by definition (see the concept of time preference). I always half-assed understood that just based on general observations, but this book throroughly and systematically proves it.

By the end you are forced to either accept that democracy and freedom are incompatible and that our system can only degenerate more as time goes on, or you ignore axiomatic truths because the alternative scares you. It's a foundational book in that everything else you read should be viewed through that lens for clarity.

I've read edgier "wrongthink" books, but that one is probably one of the more legitmately dangerous books because it proves the system is unfixable and once enough people realize that, the facade has to come down.