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455. The Devil and Karl Marx | Dr. Paul Kengor

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Influence of Poetic Fantasies on Ideologies

The poetic fantasies Karl Marx developed as a young man, imbued with a Faustian ethos, shaped the murderous doctrine he later developed as a polemicist and economist. This insight is discussed in the context of how students often integrate poetry into their academic pursuits and how Jordan Peterson's book also initially stemmed from a poem.

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