“Nasty political correctness as a tactic then makes perfect sense. Having rejected reason, we will not expect ourselves or others to behave… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Conflict resolution Copy Share Image
“Marxism was and is a class analysis, pitting economic classes against each other in a zero-sum competition. In that competition, the stronger… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“Deconstruction as an educational strategy Here is an example. Kate Ellis is a radical gender feminist. Ellis, as she writes in… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Affirmative action Copy Share Image
“Yet mere membership as a matter of duty is not enough for Hegel, given the grandeur of the state’s divine historical purpose:… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“In a “secret speech” to the twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev made a sensational revelation… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Communication Copy Share Image
“That is my second hypothesis: Postmodernism is a response to the crisis of faith of the academic far Left. Its epistemology justifies… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Faith Copy Share Image
“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… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Freedom Copy Share Image
“A variation on this strategy was implicit in a new definition of “poverty” that the Left began to offer in the early… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Economics Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism is the first ruthlessly consistent statement of the consequences of rejecting reason, those consequences being necessary given the history of epistemology… — Stephen R.C. Hicks History Copy Share Image
“From the postmodern anti-realist metaphysics and anti-reason epistemology, the postmodern social consequences follow almost directly. Once we set aside reality and reason,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Philosophy Copy Share Image
“The empirical evidence has been much harder on socialism. Economically, in practice the capitalist nations are increasingly productive and prosperous, with no… — Stephen R.C. Hicks North korea Copy Share Image
“Yet it is also true, Hegel granted, that in many cases the individual’s freedoms and interests will genuinely be set aside, overridden,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Freedom Copy Share Image
“Morally and politically, in practice every liberal capitalist country has a solid record for being humane, for by and large respecting rights… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Killing people Copy Share Image
“In our time, the world created by the Enlightenment is strong, active, and exuberant. For a while in the past century, socialists… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Kunst ist Scheisse (Art is shit) was, fittingly, the motto of the Dada movement. Duchamp’s urinal was the fitting symbol. Everything is… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Art Copy Share Image
“In effect, by rejecting high-tech socialism and substituting a vision of low-tech, egalitarian socialism, this new Left strategy also resolved to quote… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Dreams Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, it is difficult to do this under contemporary living arrangements, in which children go to school and then return to corrupting… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Children Copy Share Image
“According to Herder, one cannot make such judgments. Judgments of good and bad are defined culturally and internally, in terms of each… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Dreams Copy Share Image
“Traditionally, Marxist socialism had supposed that providing adequately for human needs was a basic test of a social system’s morality. The achievement… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Good thing Copy Share Image
“Ironically, then, by the 1930s large segments of the radical Left had come to agree with what national socialists and fascists had… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“So far Fichte’s program of education includes the communal separation of children, severe authoritarian top-down training, strict moral duty and selflessness, and… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Children Copy Share Image
“Kant is sometimes considered to be an advocate of reason. Kant was in favor of science, it is argued. He emphasized the… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Buddhism Copy Share Image
“In American law, there is the Constitution and the whole body of common law precedent, and very little of that supports socialism.… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Common law Copy Share Image
“To start with, education must be egalitarian and universal, unlike previous education, which was feudal and elitist: “So there is nothing left… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Education Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, postmodernism recasts the nature of rhetoric: Rhetoric is persuasion in the absence of cognition.” — Stephen R.C. Hicks Nature Copy Share Image
