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457. God, Marxism, and the Fall of the West | Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Analyzing Purposeful and Accidental Subversion in Ideological Evolution

The evolution of Marxist ideology from a focus on economic oppression to a broader victim-victimizer narrative led to the subversion of the capitalist order, resulting in universal poverty and the lack of equitable redistribution. This realization in the 1970s prompted a shift in focus by postmodernists towards fragmenting the narrative into various power dynamics involving gender, sex, family, race, and ethnicity, while maintaining the core belief in power dynamics governing societal interactions.

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