Penetrating essay by @safeortrue (typical of @QuilletteM) takes critical theory seriously, unpacks it, and shows it to be dangerous nonsense, inconsistent with a humane & objective search for truth. Overused slogans & epithets becoming caricatures too.http://quillette.com/2017/12/09/white-women-tears-wilfrid-laurier-critical-theory/ …
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Marx derived the idea of a postcapitalist utopia not from the idea that capitalism is morally wrong, but reasoned that growing inequality and automation will make it unsustainable, so people will reorganize in better ways. That is not unplausible.
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Lenin's idea that you can just bypass capitalism straight into utopia without knowing how to incentivize people without terror and totalitarian propaganda was of course horribly wrong.
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