A reminder of this prescient remark from Mises’ Liberalism — a book published in 1927: “Fascism can triumph today because universal indignation at infamies committed by the socialist and communists has obtained for it the sympathies of wide circles. But when the fresh impression of the crimes of the Bolsheviks has paled, the socialist program […]
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Quotations on Nazi socialism and fascism. Excerpt from Nietzsche and the Nazis.
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Episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.
[This is Appendix 3 of Nietzsche and the Nazis. Sources for the quotations are at the end of this post.] Appendix 3: Quotations on German anti-Semitism Martin Luther (1483-1546): “The Jews deserve to hang on gallows, seven times higher than ordinary thieves.” And: “We ought to take revenge on the Jews and kill them.”[189] Immanuel
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I drew the first draft of this chart in 1997, when I began writing up my notes for what became Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The flowchart is from the end of Chapter 5 and summarizes the argument developed in that chapter. Click the image to enlarge. About those question marks
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In this invited lecture, Dr. Hicks surveys key educational ideas from pre-modern times, the modern era, and our post-modern times. Ancient education often stressed discipline, obedience and rule following, while modern thinkers such as Galileo, Locke, and Montaigne stressed independent judgment and the power of reason. He then examines a series postmodern (and fellow-traveler) thinkers
Atlas Society Senior Scholar Stephen Hicks & Elizabeth Hayes of Students For Liberty Discuss The Immorality & Impracticality of Socialism. What is Socialism? Is it moral or immoral? What explains its continued popularity despite its history of failures? Recorded in Washington, DC, Professor Hicks responds to interviewer Elizabeth Hayes in this interview. Related: “The Crisis
With Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. The fourth session of The Anti-Capitalism Course will be “Next Generation Socialism?” Socialist intellectual Robert Heilbroner’s question: If we acknowledge the disasters of 20th-century socialism, what lessons can we learn to do socialism better next time? Link to register for the session at Kazm. Reading in preparation for the session: Robert
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