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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Replying to @clairlemon @brynnbeard and
Reducing everything in Marxism, or for that matter the whole of Continental Philosophy, as somehow leading straight to the Khmer Rouge is intellectually lazy, and it's sadly the argumentative tactic the article employs.
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Replying to @iamcuriousblue @clairlemon and
A political philosophy that replaces rationality with morality is one of the most dangerous things that can happen to a society. From the perspective of a particular morality that is incredibly hard to see.
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Replying to @Plinz @clairlemon and
And this is a prime example of the kind of nonsense I'm talking about. Marxism is a distinctly anti-moralist philosophy. I think ideas should be critiqued from a place of understanding of those ideas. Which is not where I see conservatives coming from wrt Marxism.
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Replying to @iamcuriousblue @Plinz and
Marxist theory declares that incorrect ideas are created by class membership alone, and are girded by wealth inequality. Marxism is anti-moralist because it posits all ideas generated in a class system are, essentially, "immoral" except Marxist ideas.
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Replying to @pkolding @iamcuriousblue and
No, Marx understood that everybody acts on their own best interest, and may have a correct model of the world, and the results can mean that a few are rich and many are poor, and you have regular crises. That is neither right nor wrong, it just is. (Marxism is not Marx though)
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Replying to @Plinz @iamcuriousblue and
Marxism was the subject, and I entirely agree that 'Marxism is not Marx'. Marx would be horrified by Marxism.
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Replying to @pkolding @iamcuriousblue and
Hard to say. I am sure that he would have been extremely horrified by Stalinism. His moral impulses were not motivated by hating the rich, but by feeling sorry for those who are suffering.
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(OMG we are discussing from different political angles about something as controversial as Marxism, and we seem to be all reasonable, and convergent!)
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