I’m not “worried”, I guess I would essentially conflate Jewish and secular here—cosmopolitan, leftist intellectuals are the dangerous category; Marx and Trotsky are both secular and Jewish.
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To some extent I'm thinking about people like Jonah Goldberg, who was part of this discussion in the 2000s-2010s as a neocon-cum-conservative, who is no one's idea of a Trotskyist, yet didn't buy the Trumpist argument.
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I'm just spitballing here and your comments are very helpful - defining terms is hard but important and twitter lets you get away with not doing the hard work.
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Replying to @Joshua_A_Tait @HeerJeet
Yeah, no worries, I was just trying to tease it out—I think if you really take the quote seriously, you end up with Marx as a quintessential intellectual of modernity—*the* quintessential intellectual really, along with Freud (ok, Nietzsche too). And he embodies Jeet’s list.
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I remember it being very religious in nature (hence Feuerbach), but I'll reread the piece!
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Replying to @Joshua_A_Tait @yeselson
Feuerbach carries a lot of connotation in this debate because he was both a harbinger of secularism and an important influence on Marx.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @Joshua_A_Tait
Yeah exactly. He’s key for the early Marx.
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The different reactions to Trump within the conservative intelligentsia don't map perfectly onto old divides but they do suggest that those divides still have influence.
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What older faction among the conservatives intelligentsia do you think has been most prone to support Trump? Paleos, but any others?
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I'd look at generations. People old enough to have formed their politics before Reagan or young enough to not remember him.
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