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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

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Benjamin Yiapan

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In comparison to the communism pushed on me at UT Austin, this sounds fantastic!

David A.

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Leo Strauss covered all of this a lifetime ago

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Jesse Richey, MS, MBA, PMP

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Marxism was created in the middle of the 19th century.

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Maria Salzman

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"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

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And that people like Kissinger were not war criminals?

Garon King, CCMA

Government Contract Management at GP Strategies Corporation

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Depends upon which end of the whip one is one😉

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Lee Eysturlid

There are two types of people in this world: 1) Those that can extrapolate from incomplete data.

4w

I hope you include Gramsci. He is critical to understanding the “modern” Marxist and therefore Critical Race theory.

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