Tag: Marxism
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Modernism’s Contempt for the Human Intellect
Reading Time: 11 minutesThe skeptical mode is the source of modernism’s contempt for the human intellect. Or maybe it’s better to say modernism’s contempt for the human’s ability to know anything. Harold Kaplan1 says we have come to believe this mode is the strongest trait of an enlightened modern consciousness. Metaphysics might seem to be…
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Melville, Marx and Me
Reading Time: 3 minutesI criticized some of Loren Goldner’s statements in a previous post, but now I want to praise his ideas for other reasons. I appreciate his explanation for why American radicalism differs from European radicalism. America’s Unique Connection to the Old Testament Americans have a different historical perspective than Europeans. In Goldner’s words, …
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Who Are the Progressives’ Friends?
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’m not trying to end to our conversation with people in these categories. I’m trying to clarify the position of progressives by comparison with competing voices in the “progressive” movement. I put progressive in quotation marks because there are non-progressive participants in this movement. In fact, there are categories of participants that…