As someone on the moderate left, I really appreciate these videos. They help me understand how the far left has lost touch with reality and give me the information I need to stand up to the increasing movement to the left.

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Marx had a messy room

What we're seeing, however, is that the Communist regimes that survived have learned to adapt. This is the case of China and Vietnam. They've figured that open markets is better for the regime in the long term, so they've integrated capitalism into the economy. They do this not because they care about the well-being of the citizenry, but holding power they know they can benefit from the immense wealth creation of the free market. Plus they learned that a wealthier population is less likely to revolt. In this sense, these Communist regimes are no longer communist, even as they retain their authoritarian governing structure. With free market, there is more respect for private property, and increase in individual freedom, but this is at the grace and mercy of the rulers, not a constitutional right. The regime, however, is by nature paranoid, and will suppress dissent to secure its power.

What an incredible speaker. I think I heard him say “um” once. I can’t even type words that fluidly.

What do you do when reality shows your idea is bullcrap?

Antonio Francesco Gramsci (died 1937). The Frankfurt School. The rise of popular existentialism. These theories, ideas, movements allowed the universities to reshape ideology. Popular culture has now embraced some of these ideas and weaponized them.

This critique of post modernism can be found throughout the history of knowledge and philosophy. Plato had a similar criticism of the sophists, Nietzsche has a passage in Gotzen-Dammerung that's also similar. Even the thinkers described as postmodernists and marxists (for example Ranciere and Foucault) critique this very development explicitly throughout their authorships. Marxism didn't create the postmodern left and abandoned reason, but if you believe it to be, and if you really want to believe it, "everything will be shaped to fit the political commitment", even if this commitment is blaming "our current epistemological crisis" on neo-marxists. But the crisis existed before both marxists, post modernists and Stephen Hicks.

This guy is a spectacular speaker!

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I like the metaphor at the end. Marxism is indeed the religion of the young.

Brilliant. Made complete sense.

Enlightened presentation; Rational and informative

Great lecture! Thanks for posting it.

OH GOD it is well done presentation!

Do you have a copy of the PowerPoint presentation? I’d love to have a copy

I just find PoMo meaningless

Thank you. Very great teacher

Excellent

Truth and reason will always resurrect.