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Neoreaction a Basilisk by Elizabeth Sandifer
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Some interesting and eye opening observations on the far-right thinking, but the books style is too partial for my taste. This is a collection of essays that have a deeply personal and emotional style, where the author does not hide her deep hate of racists and fascists. She even writes at one point "this is a leftist book", meaning that the perspective of the work is leftist and she expect the reader to already agree with her that racism and fascism are bad and must be destroyed.

But the deep analyses of far-right texts in itself are quite fascinating reading. There are some good nuggets of information here and there, but as overall work this is not the best book to understand far-right thinking. This is more like a complimentary book after reading some impartial introductory text on the topic.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
“The history of the world consists of a lot of wealthy assholes sleeping with each other and killing people”
Elizabeth Sandifer, Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right


Reading Progress

March 28, 2019 – Shelved
March 28, 2019 – Shelved as: to-read
October 10, 2021 – Started Reading
October 31, 2021 – Shelved as: read-in-2021
October 31, 2021 – Finished Reading

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