Sometimes the simplest explanation is the best explanation. You cannot understand Vladimir Putin and his war against Ukraine unless you understand that he is a Marxist-Leninist.
Sometimes the simplest explanation is the best explanation. You cannot understand Vladimir Putin and his war against Ukraine unless you understand that he is a Marxist-Leninist.
Here we have the usual conservative anti-intellectualism on full display. If you are a statesman, you should be well read, especially in political theory; and if you are at all serious, you will have read authors whom you disagree with. Having read Mao doesn't make Putin a Maoist, any more than Stalin having read John Locke makes him a liberal. Many of us here have read authors like Julius Evola and Mueller van den Bruck in order to better understand the fascist position -- does that mean we're about to emigrate, join a mercenary group, and Slava Ukraini ourselves into Kinzhal-induced oblivion? Of course not.
But this is how we Americans get politicians and public figures who, apparently out of some desire not to be tainted by Evil Commie Ideas, have read Democracy in America (final chapter only) and nothing else.
I've had people tell me they're afraid of reading Marxist theory because they say just a few pages could be so enticing it would brainwash them.
What they're saying is they're afraid that Marxism makes too much sense. They prefer to stay ignorant, that way there is no risk of having their views changed by an evidently more correct theory of how the world works.
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But seriously, a lot of liberals tend to believe exactly that whatever you read will automatically program you.
Basically admitting that they're passive consumers of propaganda, and that they apply this mindset to everything. Which is a massive self-own, given that liberals are usually the ones trying to lecture everyone else on "bias" and the importance of "critical thinking."