socialists Archives - Possibly Correct https://possiblycorrect.com/tag/socialists/ Possibly Correct Media Network Wed, 23 Mar 2022 01:08:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/possiblycorrect.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-PC_LOGO.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 socialists Archives - Possibly Correct https://possiblycorrect.com/tag/socialists/ 32 32 194854143 EP 13 | Postmodernism’s Moral Low Ground https://possiblycorrect.com/podcast/ep-13-postmodernisms-moral-low-ground/ Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:13:00 +0000 https://possiblycorrect.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1710 Intellectual battles are the cognitive lifeblood of a healthy society. Life is complicated and the stakes are high, so thoughtful and passionate people have lots of arguments. Only by argument can we sort out the facts about complicated matters, however postmodernists seem not to fight by the same rules as the rest of society.

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]]> Intellectual battles are the cognitive lifeblood of a healthy society. Life is complicated and the stakes are high, so thoughtful and passionate people have lots of arguments. Only by argument can we sort out the facts about complicated matters, however postmodernists seem not to fight by the same rules as the rest of society.

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]]> 1710 EP #2 | Violent Politics: Lesson of Marxist Philosophy https://possiblycorrect.com/podcast/ep-2-violent-politics-lesson-of-marxist-philosophy/ Tue, 23 Oct 2018 01:07:00 +0000 https://possiblycorrect.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1791 Our topic is the long history of violent far-left, especially Marxist, activism. Is it a coincidental that so much brutality emerged from Marx-inspired activists? Or is it accidental by-product of well-intentioned theory? Or is it a necessary and intended consequence of its principles? Leon Trotsky on Joseph Stalin in 1940: "Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points." Not just what the Marxist theoreticians and politicians said, what they did. A large number of intellectuals in the West, are aware of the atrocities but accept on them. Why?

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]]> Our topic is the long history of violent far-left, especially Marxist, activism. Is it a coincidental that so much brutality emerged from Marx-inspired activists? Or is it accidental by-product of well-intentioned theory? Or is it a necessary and intended consequence of its principles? Leon Trotsky on Joseph Stalin in 1940: “Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.” Not just what the Marxist theoreticians and politicians said, what they did. A large number of intellectuals in the West, are aware of the atrocities but accept on them. Why?

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