chapotraphouse

Meh, there are better philosophical works to engage with than Derrida. Besides not crossing the Quran/Veda/Analects line, the cost/benefit ratio of being able to understand his text is too high. And even among Western non-Marxist text, there are still better candidates towards investing your time to study.

I would say most Western text on how to wage war like Clausewitz's On War or Galula's Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice is more deserving of your time. There are also military manuals that people, especially people who face off against the pigs, can find extremely useful.

The work of pop intellectuals (Chomsky's, Fisher's, and Graeber's more popular works) is also more deserving because if nothing else, at least they're easier to read, which means not only are you able to get through the text faster, but you're also more likely bump into other people who've actually read the text. No one's fucking reading Derrida in their free time.

And finally, explicitly fascist text like Carl Schmitt's works or The Turner Diaries or even Mein Kampf is more deserving of examination in a "know thy enemy" capacity. Fascist paramilitaries in the US constantly try to reenact scenes from The Turner Diaries, so shouldn't people at least be aware of what the text is about? And as we saw with the Bolsanaristas, the US is the number one exporter of fascism and fascist thought. The fact that The Turner Diaries is written within a US context won't save non-USians from their domestic fascists copying or taking inspiration from that book.