Marx now matters less than Rousseau

I was jointly interviewed by two smart younger guys, Truman of Return to Reason and Kevin of Engineering Politics:

What are the major differences between Karl Marx’s socialism and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s socialism?

Is Rousseau really more important than Marx in today’s culture wars?

What does being an adult mean, now that we’re so rich and free?

Were the French Revolutionaries Rousseau’s disciples?

The book under discussion: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.

More on Rousseau’s counter-Enlightenment philosophy, in discussion with James Lindsay and Michael O’Fallon.

The Michael Rectenwald discussion, mentioned at the 3-minute mark.

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