“In effect, by rejecting high-tech socialism and substituting a vision of low-tech, egalitarian socialism, this new Left strategy also resolved to quote Marx less and to quote Rousseau more.” — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“Nasty political correctness as a tactic then makes perfect sense. Having rejected reason, we will not expect ourselves or others to behave reasonably. Having… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“Marxism was and is a class analysis, pitting economic classes against each other in a zero-sum competition. In that competition, the stronger parties would… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“Deconstruction as an educational strategy Here is an example. Kate Ellis is a radical gender feminist. Ellis, as she writes in Socialist Review,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“Yet mere membership as a matter of duty is not enough for Hegel, given the grandeur of the state’s divine historical purpose: “One must… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“In a “secret speech” to the twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev made a sensational revelation of the… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“That is my second hypothesis: Postmodernism is a response to the crisis of faith of the academic far Left. Its epistemology justifies the leap… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“Given the pervasiveness of capitalism’s domination, the revolutionary vanguard can come only from those outcast intellectuals—especially among the younger students[282]—those who are able to… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“A variation on this strategy was implicit in a new definition of “poverty” that the Left began to offer in the early 1960s: the… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“Postmodernism is the first ruthlessly consistent statement of the consequences of rejecting reason, those consequences being necessary given the history of epistemology since Kant.” — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“From the postmodern anti-realist metaphysics and anti-reason epistemology, the postmodern social consequences follow almost directly. Once we set aside reality and reason, what are… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“The empirical evidence has been much harder on socialism. Economically, in practice the capitalist nations are increasingly productive and prosperous, with no end in… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“Yet it is also true, Hegel granted, that in many cases the individual’s freedoms and interests will genuinely be set aside, overridden, and even… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“Morally and politically, in practice every liberal capitalist country has a solid record for being humane, for by and large respecting rights and freedoms,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“In our time, the world created by the Enlightenment is strong, active, and exuberant. For a while in the past century, socialists could believe… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
“Kunst ist Scheisse (Art is shit) was, fittingly, the motto of the Dada movement. Duchamp’s urinal was the fitting symbol. Everything is waste to… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share
