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Has anyone else read The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene? (archive.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by znonymous@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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If anyone has read this, and could provide a Marxist/materialist perspective, or a link to a known one, I would greatly appreciate it.

Edit: Wow! I am glad I asked before wasting any time at all reading any part of this. Thank you.

I am asking, because I was recommended to read Dale Carnegie's 1936 book How to Win Friends and Influence People, by my current boss, and I had read that when I was 19 at the recommendation of my Evangelical father. I mostly disliked it then, finding it trite and vague. So, I was trying to find an alternative, and tried to look up an alternative that I could read instead. I saw that this 48 Laws book was highly read by people incarcerated in US prisons, and the book had been banned by many prisons. I was hoping it had some sort of subversive anti-authoritarian messaging that could fly under my boss's radar.

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[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

how to be a sociopath and reduce every social dynamic and interaction into its bare essence, which only serves to further your personal aspirations.

Like, as another user said, it's an interesting read if you want to get insight into how too many fucking deranged people think and maybe use it for tactical defense in the hellscape that is the workplace but I quit after a few chapters because I I'm trying to remove myself from whatever fucking world these type of people exist in.