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 …
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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