Libri prohibiti de Amazon…

I was going to get Esther Vilar’s antifeminist classic, The Manipulated Man, but low and behold, the book is nowhere to be found on Amazon. I mean, there is the German translation but the English version has been throughly purged. I guess feminists complained, and Amazon obliged. Also pleas with Amazon could have been done through organizations like the ADL, or the SPLC.

Luckily, one of the editions of the book is posted here in pdf, as the book appears to be sold out elsewhere.

I must say the book does not conform to my standards of brevity and organization of ideas, and the text appears repetitive. It might be a bit dated today because men might have moved a bit in their development from the time her book was published.

Nevertheless, the book has some revolutionary ideas about masculinity and the relationship between the sexes. It completely demolishes the discourses of mainstream feminism and I guess the latter is why it is banned on Amazon.

Amazon might have the right not to allow certain works on its site but as a monopoly on book trade, Amazon is effectively engaging in censorship of a work that does not conform to its preferred political ideology. I would say like 70% of all the print books I own were bought through Amazon, and 100% of all digital books on my Kindle. Now imagine, if Amazon, Google, Apple, all ganged up against an author and banned him from selling his work through their platform? He would effectively have his rights to free speech curtailed.

Esther Vilar’s book is not the only one Amazon has banned. Goodreads have short 3 title list on their site. The first is When Harry became Sally, which is critical of trans people, something about the Covid pandemic, which is another topic you peasants are not allowed to have free discussion about. The last one is an anthology of fascists from 1930s. Because you cannot read what the fascists thought lest you may actually like some of it.

These books carried disinformation, you say? Shut down most mainstream media then, they lie all the time. If these books are full of inaccuracies and biases, there is the review section. If the review section is enough, any removal of these books amounts to political censorship.

I found an audio book on YouTube. UPD: There was, it was taken down by YouTube.

Guys, Valerie Solanas’ SCUM Manifesto is on Amazon, and the above book is not.

Above is another link, let’s see if that gets taken down. I will updated this post again.