“Communist governments account for 110 million of these deaths. Source: Rummel 1994.” — Stephen R.C. Hicks Death 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
“Accordingly, postmodernism recasts the nature of rhetoric: Rhetoric is persuasion in the absence of cognition.” — Stephen R.C. Hicks Modernism 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The consequence of this, morally, is that the individual is of less significance than the state. The individual’s empirical, day-to-day interests are… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Responsibility Copy Share Image
“This explains the harsh nature of much postmodern rhetoric. The regular deployments of ad hominem, the setting up of straw men, and… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Ku klux klan 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
“Another force to straighten the warped wood is political. Man is “an animal that, if he lives among other members of his… — Stephen R.C. Hicks 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 Communism 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
“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 Classless society 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
“In postmodern discourse, truth is rejected explicitly and consistency can be a rare phenomenon. Consider the following pairs of claims. On the… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Political correctness Copy Share Image
“The best portrait of this psychology comes from that very dead, very white European male: William Shakespeare, in his Othello. Iago just… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Psychology 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
“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 Capitalism 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
“This standard Humean/Kantian dichotomy of analytic and synthetic propositions immediately yields a very problematic implication: Logical and mathematical propositions are dis-connected from… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“The contemporary Enlightenment world prides itself on its commitment to equality and justice, its open-mindedness, its making opportunity available to all, and… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Enlightenment Copy Share Image
“What is the purpose in this context of appealing to opinion and semantic relativism? The purpose is to get your opponent off… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Breathing space 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
![“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)
![“Another force to straighten the warped wood is political. Man is “an animal that, if he lives among other members of his species, has need of a master.” And that is because “his selfish animal propensities induce him to except himself from [moral rules] wherever he can.” Kant then introduced his…” quote by Stephen R.C. Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/552/stephen-r-c-hicks-12692_political-man_another-force-to-straighten-the-warped-w_2941719.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)
![“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)
