“Communist governments account for 110 million of these deaths. Source: Rummel 1994.” — Stephen R.C. Hicks Death Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, postmodernism recasts the nature of rhetoric: Rhetoric is persuasion in the absence of cognition.” — Stephen R.C. Hicks Modernism Copy Share Image
“Therefore, it is a combination of the two factors—widespread skepticism about reason and socialism’s being in crisis—that is necessary to give rise… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Modernism Copy Share Image
“It is also understandable that in such a context the National Socialists would score their first big successes among the university students.… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Swastika 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 Analysis 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 Capitalism 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
“A new ethical standard was therefore necessary. With great fanfare, then, much of the Left changed its official ethical standard from need… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Capitalism Copy Share Image
“This conclusion about perception is devastating for science: If our percepts are theory-laden, then perception is hardly a neutral and independent check… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Perception Copy Share Image
“As Nietzsche noted in Daybreak: When some men fail to accomplish what they desire to do they exclaim angrily, “May the whole… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Envy 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 Capitalism Copy Share Image
“Included in the Totalitarian/Killed by Own Government cell are the 10 to 12 million human beings killed by the German National Socialists… — Stephen R.C. Hicks 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, there was the extreme disappointment at the failure of the classical socialist ideal. The great ideal of Marxism had failed to… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Failure Copy Share Image
“Our four figures, by contrast, voiced themes of strong collectivism in ethics and politics with calls for individuals to sacrifice for society,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Collectivism 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 Modernism Copy Share Image
“The implication is that logical or mathematical proofs cuts no ice in adjudicating competing claims of fact.[101] Analytic propositions “are entirely devoid… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Happiness 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 Capitalism Copy Share Image
“The dominance of subjectivist and relativistic epistemologies in academic philosophy thus provided the academic Left with a new tactic. Confronted by harsh… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Philosophy 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
“Socialists have generally been willing to grant that possibly, just possibly, capitalist economic production would outstrip socialist production. But no socialist has… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Capitalism Copy Share Image
“Consider three more examples, this time of clashes between postmodernist theory and historical fact. Postmodernists say that the West is deeply racist,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“As it became impossible to believe in the morality of the Soviet Union, a shrinking contingent of true believers shifted their devotions,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Religion 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
“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 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
“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 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
“And again, just in case we have missed Hegel’s point: “A single person, I need hardly say, is something subordinate, and as… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Hegel 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
“In postmodernism we find metaphysical antirealism, epistemological subjectivity, the placing of feeling at the root of all value issues, the consequent relativism… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Knowledge Copy Share Image
“As the Marxist movement splintered and mutated into new forms, Left intellectuals and activists began to look for new ways to attack… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Marxist Copy Share Image
“Reason is a tool of weaklings who are afraid to be naked in the face of a cruel and conflictual reality and… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Postmodernism 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
“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 Hegel Copy Share Image
“And in a remark that was prescient of the coming decade, Moeller wrote: Socialism begins where Marxism ends. German socialism is called… — Stephen R.C. Hicks 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
“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 Capitalism 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… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Conflict resolution Copy Share Image
“For the modern realists, consciousness is both cognitive and functional, and those two traits are integrated. The primary purpose of consciousness is… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Consciousness Copy Share Image
![“It is also understandable that in such a context the National Socialists would score their first big successes among the university students. “Students in brown shirts and swastika armbands were a normal sight in classes well before 1932.”[243]” quote by Stephen R.C. Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96b/stephen-r-c-hicks-12692_swastika_it-is-also-understandable-that-in-such-a_2401169.jpg)
![“As Nietzsche noted in Daybreak: When some men fail to accomplish what they desire to do they exclaim angrily, “May the whole world perish!” This repulsive emotion is the pinnacle of envy, whose implication is “If I cannot have something, no one can have anything, no one is to be anything!”[312]” quote by Stephen R.C. Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cf/stephen-r-c-hicks-12692_envy_as-nietzsche-noted-in-daybreak-when-some_2333556.jpg)
![“The implication is that logical or mathematical proofs cuts no ice in adjudicating competing claims of fact.[101] Analytic propositions “are entirely devoid of factual content. And it is for this reason that no experience can confute them.”[102] Offering logical proofs about real matters of fact…” quote by Stephen R.C. Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ea/stephen-r-c-hicks-12692_happiness_the-implication-is-that-logical-or-mathe_2037979.jpg)
![“Socialists have generally been willing to grant that possibly, just possibly, capitalist economic production would outstrip socialist production. But no socialist has ever been willing to grant that capitalism can hold a candle to socialism morally.[257] Socialism is driven more than anything else…” quote by Stephen R.C. Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14c/stephen-r-c-hicks-12692_capitalism_socialists-have-generally-been-willing-t_2998688.jpg)
![“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 “link liberation with the dissolution of ordinary and orderly perception”[283] and who thereby can see…” quote by Stephen R.C. Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b31/stephen-r-c-hicks-12692_freedom_given-the-pervasiveness-of-capitalism-s_775059.jpg)
![“And again, just in case we have missed Hegel’s point: “A single person, I need hardly say, is something subordinate, and as such he must dedicate himself to the ethical whole.” And again echoing Rousseau: “Hence, if the state claims life, the individual must surrender it.”[216]” quote by Stephen R.C. Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91e/stephen-r-c-hicks-12692_hegel_and-again-just-in-case-we-have-missed-he_2668561.jpg)
![“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 worship the state as a terrestrial divinity.”[211]” quote by Stephen R.C. Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/371/stephen-r-c-hicks-12692_hegel_yet-mere-membership-as-a-matter-of-duty_229759.jpg)
