
Episode 69: Miles Yu on China, Ideology, and Geopolitical Conflict
The Telos Press Podcast
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The Importance of Ideology in Politics
The word ideology as we use today originally came out of the French Revolution in late 18th century it basically means that the essentialized philosophical independence of a government or a community. It can mean slightly different, but the more or less the same in two Realities one is the reality of the communist world like China North Korea Vena Cuba and Laos In the communist world of ideology basically means the system of ideas that conform to the thoughts and teachings of Marxism Leninism Mao and other so-called correct communist leaders. This is very important to understand the communist the world George Kennan the preeminent American diplomat got it absolutely right in late 1940s When he tried to understand the source of the Soviet
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