You describe it as a "senile industry" that only persisted because governments propped it up. But aren't there still a lot of Marxists in academia after the fall of the Soviet Union? I find more plausible the counterfactual hypothetical in which rival socialist philosophies would take those spots currently occupied by Marxists.
The Paris Commune shot the archbishop of Paris. Did it do a lot of priest-shooting generally? Did Marx approve of this, and of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror?
Historian George Walsh, in his recorded lectures, "Marxism: Philosophy And Political Ideology," says Marxism is a _systematic_ attack on the individual, from metaphysics to esthetics. And that this necessarily applies as mass murder. As far as I know, Marx had no important influence on British-American philosophy and Continental philosophy. His influence on ideology is another topic. Marx was a mystic, with his intuited, transcendental dialectic, the individual as abstraction from society, and communism, with its means of production intuited by people as a desire to sacrifice to society.
All marxisms put experts in charge. Otherwise, we get markets, which may seem disorderly to many academics. Experts are people with credentials, like higher degrees. As I recall Dr. Evil, "I didn't go to graduate school for seven years to be called Mr. Evil."
hm, ok. This increases my prior that Marxists are powerhungry by... 5%.
I dont have a good number for what i believe here, but my presumption is that most people like ti have influence, power, or to follow powerful people: marxists - leftists just has some complicated power structure around not seeming to be powerful or domination, but usually ends up in such domination structures.
Yes, Marxism drove the revolution that took over Russia, "proving" the Mandate of Heaven and serving as a "proof of concept." But Marxism also implies job opportunities for would-be Mandarins with advanced degrees, thereby"qualified" to join the Vanguard.
Also: Was there not some mutual learning between Lenin and Mussolini,, which also engaged AH? There was more than one totalitarian Marxist state nascent a century ago.
You describe it as a "senile industry" that only persisted because governments propped it up. But aren't there still a lot of Marxists in academia after the fall of the Soviet Union? I find more plausible the counterfactual hypothetical in which rival socialist philosophies would take those spots currently occupied by Marxists.
When Marx’s followers were a inbred cult, academics treated them like a inbred cult. " Fix "an".
The Paris Commune shot the archbishop of Paris. Did it do a lot of priest-shooting generally? Did Marx approve of this, and of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror?
I like to tell Marxists that I want to see socialists liquidated as a class. That shuts them up.
Historian George Walsh, in his recorded lectures, "Marxism: Philosophy And Political Ideology," says Marxism is a _systematic_ attack on the individual, from metaphysics to esthetics. And that this necessarily applies as mass murder. As far as I know, Marx had no important influence on British-American philosophy and Continental philosophy. His influence on ideology is another topic. Marx was a mystic, with his intuited, transcendental dialectic, the individual as abstraction from society, and communism, with its means of production intuited by people as a desire to sacrifice to society.
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All marxisms put experts in charge. Otherwise, we get markets, which may seem disorderly to many academics. Experts are people with credentials, like higher degrees. As I recall Dr. Evil, "I didn't go to graduate school for seven years to be called Mr. Evil."
hm, ok. This increases my prior that Marxists are powerhungry by... 5%.
I dont have a good number for what i believe here, but my presumption is that most people like ti have influence, power, or to follow powerful people: marxists - leftists just has some complicated power structure around not seeming to be powerful or domination, but usually ends up in such domination structures.
Yes, Marxism drove the revolution that took over Russia, "proving" the Mandate of Heaven and serving as a "proof of concept." But Marxism also implies job opportunities for would-be Mandarins with advanced degrees, thereby"qualified" to join the Vanguard.
Also: Was there not some mutual learning between Lenin and Mussolini,, which also engaged AH? There was more than one totalitarian Marxist state nascent a century ago.
I see "modem" a couple of times in the quotation, where I'm guessing it was meant to be "modern". Was OCR involved in the transcription?