What does ideological tyranny do to the bodies and characters of individual human beings? Take another look inside the UATX curriculum with "Inside Intellectual Foundations," our weekly blog series on the courses students will take in their first two years. Today, we're introducing "Ideological Experiments of the 20th Century," a core class introducing students to Rousseau, Marx, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, and much, much more. https://lnkd.in/edbxx-FW
Leo Strauss covered all of this a lifetime ago
Marxism was created in the middle of the 19th century.
"Socialism is a mandatory first step to communism" claimed Marx. Lenin and Mao proved there-is an other way . But changing societies slowly, starting from youth proved very productive for Hitler
And that people like Kissinger were not war criminals?
Depends upon which end of the whip one is one😉
I hope you include Gramsci. He is critical to understanding the “modern” Marxist and therefore Critical Race theory.
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1moIn comparison to the communism pushed on me at UT Austin, this sounds fantastic!