I'm finding this conversation interesting, on a number of levels. I'd need a detailed definition of "far-right views" before I could join in a dialogue of whether it's "blindingly obvious" that they are wrong/don't have any substance.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/979764760009994241 …
Oh? Have you encountered this? I haven't heard any of them from any far-rightists. We reach an impasse immediately and there is nothing of substance being offered like there is on the far-left..
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There certainly was in the early twentieth century. Try Eliot, Knut Hamsun, Gabriel d’Annunzio, Gottfried Benn and others.
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No, I realise that far-right scholarly views exist. My point is very much about current political debates right now and why I don't spend as much time combattng far-right views & Trumpism & populism. They're not calling on anything I can get teeth into.
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Personally I'm wary of conflating Trumpism, populism and the "far-right". For many, a vote for Trump was a vote against Clinton and/or "the establishment".
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Don;t conflate them, then. I think they are distinct. To say that I am not getting anything of interest from them is not to say they are the same thing.
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I'm willing to concede that this is because they dominate universities tho. If someone is producing sophisticated scholarship on far-right views, it wouldn't get published the way far-left views do & then percolate out in condensed form.
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Very true nowadays, but it was once different. Fascism produced its own range of intellectuals.
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Yes, but I am justifying why I find the far-right less interesting right now, rather than making an assertion that there is no far-right intellectual history.
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I’m not sure about now. There was a time when many drew upon Ayn Rand. I suspect there is a quite strong intellectual provenance for some in the movement, but it is not often explored outside of there. Which is a mistake - one needs to confront ideas at their most convincing.
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Yaron Brooks appears to be driving the Objectivism agenda at the moment. He was scheduled to speak at KCL when the local Antifa faction decided to interrupt.
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