Might Is RightRagnar Redbeard, Arthur Desmond
Might Is Right
by Ragnar Redbeard, Arthur Desmond · first published 1927
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The interpretation of Hitler seeing racial struggle as the natural order and otherwise being generally amoral (definitely corroborated by Mein Kampf) strongly reminded me of Ragnar Redbeard's Might is Right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_Is_Right Well worth reading just for its entire raging style, featuring such quotes as "I gaze into the glassy eye of your fearsome Jehovah, and pluck him by the…
on “Understanding Hitler’s Anti-Semitism” ↗…political views of Mosca, Pareto, Michels, Schmitt, Jouvenel, Burnham, Francis, and Gottfried The Elementary Particles by French author Michel Houellebecq finished last week had started about a month ago. Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard about halfway through Napolean: A Life by Andrew Roberts started in the spring, about 1/2 way through had to take a break to read shorter books. Will get back to it, great book but…
on “Ask HN: Which book are you reading, since when?” ↗> Large Corporations are powerful and will do everything they can to get what they want. In the scheme of ethical philosophy there is, pretty much by definition, the most extreme position of "might is right". The principle text on which is attributed to one "Ragnar Redbeard" [1]. The philosophy is simple. I may rob you, rape you, vandalise, ransack, lie, pillage and kill, for the one simple reason that…
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