
It Could Happen Here Weekly 85
Behind the Bastards
00:00
The Origins of Totalitarianism
I am incredibly skeptical of that of of the view of the way you look think about history being the origin of totalitarianism I don't know it's a very very weird book in a lot of ways. Popper is trying to reconcile sort of like individual freedom but then also sort of economic egalitarianism and she unfortunately takes the second route. A lot of the conflict between kind of like reconciling the great man theory of history with some of these other like it comes out of an unwillingness to look at systems of power, he says.
Transcript
Play full episode