 Я очень рада, что у вас есть возможность выжить этот мемориум, названный лекцией. И я бы, особенно, хотел бы сказать, что, опять-таки, доктор Дон Принц, для спонсора в этой лекции. Спасибо вам очень большое. Вчера мы удовольствовали Пуэлл Квикс лекции, в которой он объяснил у нас обо всем корпоратом бюрокрессии. В частности, он стрессил, что корпорат сейчас обновляет экономическое эффект. И он считает все-таки в мемориуме. Помните, это что-то, хотя бы в конце его лекции, я не разговаривал с этим notion. И абсолютно правильно. Таск моего спорта будет продолжить эта conversа, которую Пуэлл начинал вчера. Поэтому я бы хотел briefly дать вам outline о том, как этот социальный коллектор вывел в то время, когда Мизус опубликовал его ленд-марк-бук 1922, который называется социализм. Я хочу сказать, что эта ментальность, эта мысль, что сегодня обновляет ментальность корпоратом бюрокрессии, была эффекта indirect или indirect, иногда, как и социализм, который был способен обновлять сильный эффект на украинской интеллектуальной и культурной жизни. Моя история essentially парадоксичная, парадоксичная история. Доклады о классических лекциях марксизма и, в то же время, вывел ментальность, ментальность, ментальность, ментальность в нашей генеральной культуре. Для всех людей, прогрессивных людей, если они называются в США, в Европе, в социальных демократиях, не necessarily марксист, конечно, но, кто был эффектом из этой mindsets, которая была очень популярна в ментальности, 1930-1940-х. Когда я использую экспрессию о социальных коллективах, я говорю о людей, интересах и институтах, которые называют гешталь, есть гешталь, вчера, Павел сказал, что это гешталь, помнишь, он говорил о теме, я буду дать вам гешталь. Минсет из людей, это то, что социальные коллективы называют не necessarily марксис. Во-первых, я бы хотел объяснить, что бедрох социализм, даже перед марксисом, стал популярным как наиболее инфлюенциальный социализм. Социализм в itself вошел в модную историю в форму секуларизации христианства. Ок. И, в принципе, в моем книге, которая была в том, что у меня два чаптера, которая изучит это, как gradually из христианцев в ваше enlightenment у нас эти первые семи секуларизации, которые были известны как социалистные группы. Чтобы выяснить, я хочу дать вам ответ, от Роберт Оуэн, который в том, что это в ваше интро с секуларизацией религиозной донаминии 1853. Там был большой ваше социализм, написан по Роберт Оуэн. Ок. Видите, если вы осторожны этой цель, что они ваше социализм, то, что ваше социализм будет можно закрыть Примечательный метод бизнеса. В принципе, этот метод социализма, как и я помню, встал между двуми методами и другим методами, о шейкерах. Это как люди видели социализм в этот момент. Я повторю, это был процесс секуализации, но для многих в 1830-1840-х и даже в 1850-х социализм был такой религиозно-апокалиптический движение. Это как они видели в этот момент. Конечно, в presenteм дали, что они пытались дозвольствовать этот религиозный метод, потому что они чувствовали непосредственности о том, что это почему многие felt comfortable with Carl Marx and Frida Engels, who came to the picture, advertising themselves as true scientists of society. И я расскажу еще о том. Мы видим, что в то же время есть тронный элемент of faith in early socialism and in socialism in general. Second point. Socialism especially Marx's brand of socialism contained a strong scientific quote-unquote component. I need to stress this, that Marx and socialism masqueraded as a hard science, the science of society. And it existed to scientifically explain the development of society from contemporary forms in the human evolution to superior forms. This Gestalt again, this mindset was shared by the end of the 19th century by many socialist sects. When in the beginning of the 20th century we have this great schism in the socialist movement, again interesting thing, great schism, between social democrats and communists 1919, the great schism, division between social democrats and communists. Still, both factions of the creed shared the same Marx and mindset. That's what we need to keep in mind. Despite the denouncement of the Bolsheviks by western social democrats they still shared similar Marxist notions. What were these notions at that time? At that time, I repeat, not now, at that time. It's a blind faith in nationalization socialization. It's a belief in faith in plan, centralized planning economy. Various degrees they argued about the degrees of the centralized planning degrees of nationalization but essentially they agreed about the final destination. We need to go toward total nationalization. That was the mindset of many people at that time. For example, such socialist leaders as Karl Kalkowski, who was a social democrat he denounced the Bolsheviks as terrorists 1919. Still, shared social engineering mentality and mobilization approaches to society and he embraced so-called war socialism that emerged during the war because war amplified this notions of nationalization. So we need to nationalize economy to be efficient. See, that was the face in efficiency. Or not necessarily social democrats and communists believed in this things. Take for example, Rex Dagwell who became influential member of FDR New Deal. In 1927 he visits the Soviet Union with a group of fellow travelers and he falls in love with what Bolsheviks were doing at that time. And I repeat, the year was still 1927. Bolsheviks was in its infancy. Still, he goes to the Soviet countryside and he sees that Bolsheviks established experimental collective farms. I repeat, it's before the Stalin's collectivization. And Dagwell noted with satisfaction that the Soviet countryside was turning into a gigantic communal field worked by tractors. He wrote that the Soviet agricultural machinery was moving around freely in a modern way without stumbling upon private fences. That's what he hate. In the United States we have private fences, he said. So in the Soviet Union they're eliminating private fences. In fact, this bias in favor of modern planning and nationalization not hindered by private fences might explain the silence of western intellectual elites and cultural elites regarding the Stalin collectivization. You heard about notorious Walter Duranty who received Pulitzer Prize for objective reports from the Soviet Union and we are morally condemning people like this. But the irony of the situation that people like Duranty and Dagwell they blindly believe that it was not only progressive it was humane to turn upside down the Russian countryside to drag these peasants into modern society. That was the reason why Dagwell and Duranty approved Stalin's collectivization because they believed it was done for the greater good and for the benefit of these peasants. So personally they were not evil people. They didn't want to kill the peasants. But this mindset that drove the minds of people at that time from San Francisco to Ural mountains this belief in centralized planning nationalization that it was good, progressive that's the way of the future was responsible for these horrible deeds. Again, I don't want to justify what Duranty wrote but we have to understand what drove these minds. So these peasants were a backward element that's what Dagwell and Duranty believed that they should be reshaped their lives should be changed for their own benefit. And it was very symbolic again to summarize this mindset of people at that time 1930-1940 it was very symbolic that after his visit to the Soviet Union 1927 Rex Dagwell was coming back to the United States on a boat that was named Leviathan that was the name of the boat. I found it interesting. I would like to stress again that socialism especially in its Marxian brand in its Marxian version was not simply a moral faith a great future heaven and earth I want to stress that it was science that's how it appeared to the people who pledged allegiance to Marxian socialism it's a hard science and if science saw there's scientific we should do according to scientific prescriptions because there was a scientific consensus in their minds and we have to act upon this consensus quote-unquote So this marriage this marriage of science again I put this word in quotation marks and religion again I want to put religion in quotation marks quotation marks because essentially what Marx and socialist did they replaced God with state that's what they did this marriage of science and religion produced this potent political religion potent political religion that allured millions of people around the world if you read carefully Mises' book socialism you will see that you will notice that in chapter 3 of his book Mises explores so-called kiliastic aspects in socialism in this chapter he addresses apocalyptic notions in the socialist creed at the same time in this chapter he stresses that people who began calling themselves socialist they gradually reinterpreted Christianity which had been started in the 1820s by people like Robert Owen whom I mentioned and was finalized by Marx, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels let me quote Mises in this case curiously enough it's this particular socialist Marxan socialism derived in this way from mystical ideas whose origin is lost in the darkness of history which has called itself scientific socialism it was an unusually clever trick on the part of the Marxists to call the kiliastic teaching science such a step was bound to be effective in an age when people relied on nothing but science and rejected metaphysics so see he already noted this strange marriage of science and religion that made Marxan socialism popular among millions of people in various countries from Soviet Union to China and beyond it's essential to remember that by the early 1900s many including those who did not necessarily belong to the socialist fellowship in fact at first I wanted to use a different subtitle for my talk I wanted to call it 100 years of the socialist fellowship just to let you know what we are talking about here but I decided to stick to a museum expression commonwealth although in my mind this expression commonwealth arouses this notions of civic unity, political unity so I think the word fellowship will be a better way to describe socialist the scientific quote unquote fellowship as you know the historical role of Mrs was to demolish this scientific aspect of socialism so we talk a lot about the socialist calculation debate which left in 1920s 1930s believed they won so that's what the assumption that the left won the debate but in reality Mrs debunked this concept about efficiency of socialism that socialism would bring the plenty because the major notion of socialism was that scientifically managers in society socialism, Marxan socialism would be able to provide material growth efficiency plenty and in fact Frederick Engels one of the chief founders of Marxism wrote a special brochure called socialism utopian and scientific 1883 it's a small brochure that became like a catechism for all members of the socialist fellowship by the way it was not thus capital that was popular among the members of this fellowship because thus capital was used as a token they put it on a shelf to show that the sense of belonging I belong to the fellowships but hardly anybody read it you know that the first translation of thus capital was done in russian in 1871 and censorship russian censorship tsarist censorship allowed this book to be published because they believed it was in such dense language nobody could read it you know so it was Engels brochure called socialism utopian and scientific that became the major catechism for all members of the socialist fellowship but look the title of this book the title of the book was to let people know that we Marx and Engels came to provide you the real science of society and the other folks who came before us like Robert Owen, Henry and Simone they were utopians they didn't know how to do science so we are hard sciences so we invented this real through sciences in fact the message was very simple that there was no social science beyond Marxism that was the only social science so that's the totalitarian aspects of this science and later uttered the famous phrase that Marxism is omnipotent because it's true it's a quotation so the only science so no other science, social science is allowed and to the present day you can see these words chiseled on the Karl Marx monument that you can see in the downtown of Moscow so the Marxism is omnipotent it's true it's a claim in total knowledge so the role of Mises was to debunk this notion completely so science was totally debunked what happened next what we see next is very interesting so socialists, Marx and socialists begin to retreat somewhere in 1960s, 1970s they started to embrace such things like market socialism Oscar Lange who was one of the major proponents of market socialism ironically Lange was debunked by many on the left in 1930s as a traitor who offered some kind of corrupted bourgeois teaching that shouldn't be accepted by the leftist but in the 1960s, 1970s where efficiency scientific efficiency of socialism was losing after repeated cycles of failures such people like Lange became very popular different brands of market socialism were embraced on the left so I see it as a strategy of an ideological retreat in a similar manner by the 1980s, 1990s Keynesianism which many on the left had considered a taboo so Keynesianism was a bourgeois thing so you cannot do Keynesianism that's what capitalists tried to screw us by using Keynesianism but ironically in 1980s, 1990s it was becoming popular on the left was gaining popularity in mainstream socialism in fact, as early as the 1950s in his book socialist faith see, the title of the book socialist faith in 1951 one Norman Thomas a former presbyterian minister and the head of the American socialist party stressed that for the true socialist it was essential to embrace Keynes ideas but again in 1951 Norman Thomas was still viewed as a traitor by offering this but later became the mainstream to Norman Thomas the value of the Keynesian way for socialists was twofold first, without completely banishing the market system Keynes showed how to gradually break away from the laissez-faire system second as Thomas enlightened us Keynes rationally and scientifically again this word in quotation marks of course, Norman used it without quotation marks Keynes scientifically explained why a state might be the primary force to regulate economy as well as to guide investments and spending in a similar way in our days the left completely embraced and weaponized the science of climate change because they were losing their Marxist side they could not use the Marxist science so to speak their signature approach about the efficiency of Marxist socialism by 1970s failed so they don't give up yet on science that is why we see market socialism was embraced for a while then Keynesianism was and still is embraced by the mainstream left in a similar manner in our days the left completely embraced and weaponized the science of climate change because it had opened the opportunity to infringe curtail economic liberty the only difference here is that in the 1930s the left argued that capitalism was not able to provide material wealth that is why we have to squash capitalism but right now the argument goes like this because of capitalism we have global warming so we have to squash capitalism because capitalism kills the planet science says so there is scientific consensus about it since the 1960s gradually on the left the very notion of economic efficiency became a curse word and it became very noticeable among in the writings of so called the new left if you read the new leftist in 1960s you will see that it was not on the assault on capitalism but more and more it was assault on material plant material growth from being the goal of socialist movement growth and efficiency became the object of moral indignation that's where it comes from this moral indignation on the left we see a lot of critical so called Victorian Marxism so it was the old Marxism we don't need to talk too much about economics we don't need to talk about the working class because in the traditional Marxism working class was considered the chosen people who were destined by history to destroy capitalism that was the major notion in Marxism in her book the new left an anti-industrial revolution iron rand and I give you this quote in her bombastic way writes the old line Marxist used to claim that a single modern factory could produce enough shoes to provide for the whole population of the world and that nothing but capitalism prevented it when they discovered the facts of reality involved they declared that going barefoot is superior to wearing shoes so that's how efficiency was going away material growth was going away in fact in his socialism book again I apologize that I give you a lot of quotes today but I cannot do without this in his socialism book Mises had already anticipated this trend when the myth of socialism efficiency would subside his stress the left would be shifting to the attacks on on the material growth quote I quote Mises we may detect a gradual change in their socialist attitude as the uneconomic nature of socialist production becomes apparent socialist are beginning to transform the views on the desirability of a more abundant satisfaction of human wants many of them are even beginning very important many of them are even beginning to show some sympathy with writers who praise the middle ages and look with contempt on the riches which capitalism adds to the means of existence why did I interrupt my quotation I said very important that the words of Mises I want to understand that some of them started to praise middle ages and old times because and I'm going to expand on this one of the major messages of the mainstream left right now it's so called nostalgia format I call it nostalgia format it's anti-growth, anti-efficiency this moral message okay and that's what we have in the present time this neoprimitivist nostalgia format became a powerful narrative in the entire left thought collective this neoprimitivist notion which is a dialogical link to the climate or green agenda climate agenda is focused on the romantic glorification of non-western societies see that's one of the bedrocks of so called multi-culture ideology that dominates today our society its glorification of the non-western societies and bashing the western civilization okay for example Bernie Sanders one of the major spokespeople for democratic socialism in the united states invoked that narrative when he stressed the significance of native American tribal wisdom for a great reset of our society according to the climate change agenda another random example you can find hundreds of thousands of these examples I just picked up two random examples a UK communist activist Mike Makin Waite a member of the British communist party still exists this organization who shares the same approach with Bernie Sanders pointed out that in their projects of better forms of life in future the left should focus on learning from indigenous non-western people so they should learn collective ethics ecological wisdom from these people okay so by the 1990s traditional marks in socialism with its class based ethics and the stress on economic plant efficiency retreated and became marginalized and the collapse of the Soviet Union the partial degeneration of communism in China a retreat of socialism in India Latin America, France, UK many optimistically talked about the death of socialism and they were standing reckoning for Karl Marx what many didn't see at that time that the victory in the Cold War was the victory of democratic socialism over its and mad brother called communism second Marx and the Marxian brand of socialism indeed retreated was marginalized but at the same time being the most popular brand of socialism Marxism left a powerful intellectual residue in our society that affected all works of our life so that's this paradoxical situation so the legacy Marxism was dying at the same time we have expansion of the Marxian mode of thinking into our wider culture okay let me again quote Mises who noted as early as the 1920s detecting this trend so he already anticipated this trend the influence of Marxist ideas extend far beyond the circle of orthodox disciples and then he writes about some scholars who by means cannot be considered Marxist but still prophesize the Marxist notions Marxist arguments because it was embedded into our intellectual culture veteran new left activist and sociologist scholar for some reason they're among the leftists they have so many sociologists I don't know what's about this profession it's just almost 99% of sociologists they're leftists so veteran new left activist Harold Bershady in his memoirs recently wrote with satisfaction that by 1980 Marxist literature became a staple reading not only in colleges but also in high schools and I want to draw attention that this guy Bershady new leftist he writes not about European countries he writes about the United States where as some early commentators tried to convince us it did not happen here in case, in fact this last phrase it didn't happen here it's a title of a book by Seymour Lipset another sociologist who wrote a book in 2001 it was called it didn't happen here so why socialism would not be possible in the United States it did happen here in reality in the French language they have a useful expression for what we are talking about here today this expression is Marxism Marxism Marxism means somewhat Marxist tending toward moving toward Marxism and especially reasoning in a Marxist manner and here I listed a bunch of memes so I'm using this current usage memes that came from Marxism and entered our popular usage not on the leftist usage but to some extent even the mainstream usage so it's Marxism of course the fact that this expression Marxism emerged in France it's not accidental because in France Marxism became deeply embedded in her intellectual culture you know about this the example of such Marxism mindset is thinking about surrounding society in terms of abstract groups there are oppressed groups and groups of oppressors that's this black and white literally or metaphorically so to speak or take for example one of the most popular memes I hear from my students from other people I read a meme in media false consciousness false consciousness it comes from Marxism directly from Marxism for example in old times when a worker aspired to have a middle class lifestyle to wear a three piece suit like watch on a chain so he could be frowned upon like a traitor to his class so it was expected that he should become woke because socialist missionaries should come to him and explain to him that a true worker should strike, should go to socialist book clubs, read socialist literature and wear some kind of junky overalls instead of three piece suit that was the assumption so today we have a similar notion among so called identity Marxist or race Marxist or cultural Marxist if you wish who try to in the same manner they try to enlighten some women or some so called people of color they try to educate them about how they should be the true representatives of their races it directly comes from Marxism this notion by the way about the false consciousness already entered our mainstream political usage I'm sure you remember how Joe Biden remarked to a black reporter who interviewed him during the last year presidential campaign and I quote Biden in this case if you have a problem figuring out where you are for me or Trump then you ain't black so it's of course I don't assume that Joe Biden socialist in no way but I'm talking about this Marxism usage that entered our mainstream culture and became accepted by many segments of our society between the 1970s and 1990s there was much pessimism and melancholy in the left thought collective in the wake of the soviet collapse as one progressive mentioned at that time there was a sense of classlessness so they lost the class they couldn't gamble anymore on the working class people who in their mind betrayed them because they started to enjoy good living standards they didn't want to go to barricades okay yet by the new millennium the mainstream left was able to refurbish themselves by gradually shifting their attention to new crisis areas such as race, gender, culture and personal life remember the slogan that became popular by the beginning of the 1970s personal is political personal is political and everything should be politicized this was I'm not assuming that there was a cabal of some leftists who were thinking what we're going to do how we're going to find another revolutionary force it was happening spontaneously gradually that's my point this was a spontaneous strategy of an ideological exit for the left who wanted to maintain their identity in the new changing world Marx and Blueprints provided the handy tools for that ideological shift in fact and I would like to stress this in the left thought collective they called the shift the cultural turn it's very important the point was to stress that we are moving away from classical legacy Marxism that was focused on economics proletariat by the way if you don't know about it to describe that shift some writers on the left used the expression cultural Marxism ironically many present day leftists insist that this expression had been invaded they call it not a label hate symbol hateful expression leftists insisted that some right-wing people had invented this expression but the reality leftists themselves in 1970-1980 they used this expression so the woke movement which currently suffocates our intellectual and cultural life and the ideological education scheme that is called the critical race theory represent the offshoots of that cultural turn or cultural Marxism if you wish when the left cast aside from the working class from the pedestal of the ultimate chosen people who were expected to destroy capitalism they began searching for a new revolutionary force with the intellectual help of the frankfort school british cultural studies the new left review magazine and the french think tank that united thousands of former marxists and Maoists they were finally located new movers and shakers and they found these movers and shakers the new revolutionary force in the third world and the monoracial and gender minorities in the west for example in France the major reference points for the mainstream left was the third world and the muslim minority in the united states for the left the major reference or point or reference force or revolutionary class was the third world of course because national liberation movements and the black power movements or other power movements hispanic power, latin power and so forth so the shift from class to race and culture that's how the mainstream left replaced gradually class with race gender and culture it was not only the frankfurt school that was the major culprit here it was more this english speaking centers of intellectual power like british cultural studies the new left review they were more actually influential because if you read the works written by frankfurt scholars they are hard to read but they were english speaking intellectual centers they were responsible for digesting these works and i repeat that's the british cultural studies particularly berman ham institute of cultural studies new left review and in france it was a think tank called kadedim so they also digested the works of frankfurt school for the regular audience so some current proponents of the woke or crt of course they might deny that they are marxist and they are right in this case they will be right we are not marxist that's what they will tell you strictly speaking i repeat they are correct because they do not share ideas of legacy marxism but it doesn't mean that they do not share these marxism modes of thinking for the past 20 years and that's what my next slide addresses among the western left one can see a fierce affectional struggle between the mainstream identity race and gender marxist or cultural marxist or woke you can call them on the one side and there are marginalized comrades who still prophesize class ok legacy marxist in this theological fight each side tries to excommunicate each other for betraying the socialist creed ok legacy marxist dismiss the opponents as bad marxist here you can see one of the titles of this legacy marxist books bad marxism so we don't like frankfurt school we don't like these legacy marxist we don't like these cultural marxist because they betrayed the creed one proud veteran of the trotskyite movement even bash the malicious influence of the frankfurt school ok so we have this critique of the legacy marxist on the part of the legacy marxist the critique of the frankfurt school the traditional left are worried and rightly so a word that their identity obsessed colleagues play a dangerous culture blood and race games to be fair there is no stress that statements of some woke activists do remind to us slogans about the socialism of the race you could hear from one german politician in interwar europe in 1930s but of course the cultural marxist woke left they cast aside their traditional legacy or you are sectarians you are dinosaurs you belong to the old times so you need to subscribe to this race and gender marxism the most recent intellectual battle between traditional marxists and their woke opponents concerns so called project 1619 an ambitious attempt on the part of the mainstream cultural left the entire American history it was an attempt to revisit the entire American history from the viewpoint of the original scene of slavery and the argument was made by the cultural marxist that the major goal of American revolution was to preserve slavery in North American that aroused the indignation of legacy marxist who started to criticize it cultural marxist they said American revolution was a bourgeois revolution that opened doors to socialist revolution sometime in future so basically argument which was heavily publicized in the mainstream media chronicle of high education on youtube this debate between legacy marxist and cultural marxist about 1619 so the argument was about what was the centrality of class or race in the revolution of 1776 which was bizarre because it never dawned on the participants of that widely publicized ideological debate that the American revolution represented the interplay of group, class regional, religious and individual interests which could not be reduced to this abstracts of class or race and by the way this theory which everybody heard a lot represents attempt to find a way out of this conundrum intersectionality writers tried to melt the big categories big categories of racial and ethnic power which cultural marxist created for themselves by 2010s the whites, Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans Blacks and women so intersectionality tries to debunk this they argued that our world is a bunch of smaller groups we have to break apart these groups within these groups there are people who exploit others more than others if you are a black woman you are exploited more than a black man if you are Native Americans you might be exploited maybe less than the black people so they try to build up this hierarchy hierarchy of oppression who is more victimized who is less victimized so they build up these pyramids or in this case the wheel of power privilege it's mind boggling of course what's going on recently I found the most exotic example of this intersectional marxist approach in an attempt to single out the so called blue people of eastern Kentucky in oppressed minorities I'm not kidding I'm not making this up I'm not joking you can google it blue people of Kentucky if you have phones right now historically indeed there has been a tiny community of people in that area who had extremely pale blue skin but in her recent novel called The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek 2020 by one Kim Michelle Richardson in this novel we see an attempt to play this oppression narrative because the writer created a story about the sad fate of a girl from Kentucky who was discriminated against by surrounding society based on her blueish skin the book about the blue girl received stellar reviews one of the reviewers in fact issued a direct recommendation you can see it here add blue to our spectrum of prejudice so if you go this way if you take this notion intersectionals in notion to the extreme you will see that every one of us is a victim of something and each one of us could be oppressed so logically you have to come to conclusion that ultimate minority is a human individual you have to embrace what methodological individualism but logically speaking but logically that's what is missing on the other side of the political spectrum so I suspect that intersectionality is a way to find the ideological escape might be buried under its own weight might go down because we see this logical contradiction so the fact that the left for the past 10 years resorted to cancel culture is a sign of desperation I think because some leftists who still have the sparks of logic in their minds they do revolt against this a craze that is going on in the socialist thought collective but the problem is that right now they are the mainstream they call the shots that is why we have this cancel culture in all times prior to 1960s it was right and conservatives who tried to police moralism now it's the left mainstream that in the puritanical mode seeks to police everybody to find this big or small groups who are oppressed tables were turned now it's the left and liberals who are the mainstream finally yesterday when we heard the talk which I enjoyed very much delivered by Paul a question question was raised what shall we do about this one may wonder what can be done about all this I think it's essential to show to students not necessarily to students that the left are not progressives they are not counter-cultural but they are true reactionaries because they are the mainstream not only they are the mainstream but they try to impose these mainstream views on the rest of society and again it shouldn't surprise us there are some leftists who actually try to revolt some reasonable people who try to revolt against this for example during this BLM Insanity in the 2020 summer there was a group of leftists who wrote a letter to Harper's magazine 100 left and liberal people protesting against this expansion of cancel culture and I also think we need to concentrate to focus on internal squabbles among the left because pedagogically speaking it might be a good strategy now a part to show this insanity of the views they try to preach to impose on us so it's a good pedagogical strategy for example to tell students and other people about how they fight among each other, class or race race or class of course it works on those students who can't think logically but not everybody is ready to think logically we know about this so there is another effective way to deal with this cultural left insanity or with woke people it's all the weapon that had been used by dissidents in the good old Soviet Union and other European countries it's humor and laughter humor and laughter so if you read memoirs of Soviet dissidents you notice that they ridiculed and made fun made fun of the regime and its politically correct sacred cows in everyday life at work, at colleges so the total fun of the sacred cows of the regime and eventually it helped to topple down the entire metrics of the socialist regime for instance in the Soviet Union in other Eastern European countries The late I would like to finish my talk about the late British journalist Malcolm Margarage who was one of the first by the way to expose the horrors of Stalinist collectivization he advised dissenters to use humor as the most potent weapon in his essay in his essay America needs a punch that was published in 1958 he wrote laughter is the most effective of all subversive conspiracies and it operates on our side thank you for your attention and of course if you have questions comments, critique so please oh three minutes oh I'm sorry I didn't give you time because I tried to take advantage of this opportunity ok go ahead so after watching socialism fail again and again in the modern world and seeing it in history why do you think this generation in America is the most economically socialist generation this world has ever seen because socialism by its own nation has this powerful emotional appeal it doesn't especially today doesn't appeal to reason, to logic it plays on your emotions it's the most powerful weapon this is why we have to fight back with emotions so we have to use not only logic as I said we have to use all kind of emotional weapons you know if you for instance go to Walmart or somewhere like have a casual conversation with people you try to crack a joke as I said try to use any kind of devices you know somewhere logic in some place logic might work in other places humor might work explanation is that we have to go through this stage and I read statistics that I forgot how they called this youngest generation they are already less socialistic the kids that are 14-15 I read statistics it's people who are really heavily loaded with socialism what is this Millennials Millennials, yeah the people of like in their 30s the problem is that in colleges in major news outlets they created this hubs the pockets of the left the pockets of socialism if you wish because these graduate schools for instance they prepared their own students, the students became professors they taught the other people and eventually you have this intellectual bubble in order for this bubble to be cracked I think we have to go through this stage in many respects it's a generational thing I don't buy the stuff that young people always tend to be socialists and old folks tend to be conservatives I think somehow it's related to Millennials they are children of those who had been educated by the new left by these how they called baby boomers they were educated by baby boomers baby boomers created Millennials and when Millennials will die out like dinosaurs we will have hopefully the new generation