The Ominous Parallels, Book Report

A book by Leonard Peikoff about the chaos in pre-Hitler Germany and its fundamental similarity with America today. A Must Read!

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[Benjiko]

After viewing your videos I am seriously afraid for the students you'll be "teaching". You seem to think that a college dropout mouthing Randian platitudes is qualified to teach young children. You claim that universities are filled with Marxist dogma (to some degree they are), yet I suspect that is an excuse you use to cover up for your academic failings. If you ever do start your own school (which I doubt), I predict all your students will have left by the end of a month.

[cropperb]

We'll see....

[Benjiko]

"The money committee of the world" ? Dude, you have no clue about anything. "Anyways" isn't a word, and it's pronounced "Pay koff" not "Peekoff". Small wonder you failed out of school.

[cropperb]

He prononces it Peekoff in his lectures. Have you ever listened to any of his lectures? You wouldn't accuse him of mispronouncing his own name?

From Merriam-Webster:

Main Entry: any·ways

Pronunciation: -"wAz

Function: adverb

1 a archaic : ANYWISE b dialect : to any degree at all

2 chiefly dialect : ANYHOW, ANYWAY

[ElFrankus]

In that regard, any book that maintains that "marxism" is the same as Nazism is profoundly flawed. Now, you can compare "stalinism" to Nazism and, since both are allstate dictatorships, the comparison may be valid at some point. But, to say that the ideas of the philosopher Karl Marx are similar to the ideas presented in nazism, and that they are one and the same, or similar, is a demonstration of ignorance so big for an "Scholar" like Peikoff, that renders the book useless.

[cropperb]

Wow. All I can say is, read The Ominous Parallels, by Peikoff.

[hsfbunny]

@ElFrankus You are wrong about that. Watch "The Soviet Story".

[shmeebegek1]

Hey, keep it up man. We need more independent thinkers. You could use a tighter presentation, but at least you have the balls to put yourself out there. I can't say as much myself.

[olga2415]

The test of any philosophical premise is the result of its application. The proof is in the pudding. How does one express their philosophical premises in their private lives? (that's the "pudding") It would behoove people to read more Biographies of famous people. Especially those who write about how you should live your life.

[DerPoltergeist13]

It's friggin cold there. I dont know why anyone would want to move there from a warmer climate unless you lived in the desert and it was super hot

[DerPoltergeist13]

Next check I get i'm ordering that book.

[88ragtime]

The Scandinavian countries will eventuallly turn into banana republics if they continue their open immigration policy and liberal welfarism. Not only that, but many people that obtain wealth in those countries usually end up leaving because of the huge tax rates.

[captainsurrey]

Oh dear, I *am* going to have to ask you to look up the word "platitude" in a dictionary.

[jmontars]

For a more informative and objective discussion of this subject matter, I recommend Bertram Gross' "Friendly Fascism:The New Face of Power in America," 1980. William Shirer (author of the Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany)wrote that Gross's book (the paperback edition)"This is the best thing I've seen on how America might go facist democratically.  FRIENDLY FASCISM offers a very clear exposition of where America is and how we got there." See Naomi Wolf's "The End of America" Jude Montarsi.

[loneRambler]

Benjiko, see my video which refutes your "judge all messages by their messengers (not their content)" notion. It's called "Re: Ayn Rand: An Insignificant Philosopher." And, as M. Adler said: philosophy is everyone's business" [college degree or not].

[AynRandOeuvre]

"Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence. (HR:All\TF\AR)