S2E19 Modern Crises, Ancient Wisdom: A Conversation with Spencer Klavan
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The Rise and Fall of Marxism
I would say Marxism comes under heavy fire in this book there's no around it. It is possible to criticize strands of Western thought from within the Western tradition because debate and discussion is one of the kind of principles that you might say animates the whole thing. And so for that reason, as I say in the book when I criticize somebody like Marx I criticize him as one Westerner to another. To get those things, the ideal is not to think bigger and more diffuse but smaller and more attached. A true coinonia true community is individualist but it’s also communitarian, that is to say it has to Just say it hasto say it's not that much anything that
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