 I want to turn to the, we talked about Marxism, we have obviously, as you're familiar, we have this sort of new philosophy, which is what we can call maybe woke ism CR, CRT, the intersectionality movement. Do you see is how did this sort of come about it's obviously taken over major industries it's it's all the time in the media and the press, it's ubiquitous among college campuses this kind of racialist ideology. Is this a form of Marxism, is it neo Marxist, is it, you know, like semi Marxist, how do you make sense of this and where do you think it came from, and do you think it's attached to the communism. Yeah, I mean I don't think it's particularly useful to think of it as Marxist. I think it's from the same intellectual tradition as Marx, it's definitely influenced by Marx it's definitely picked up certain of Marxism's attitudes and terminology. You know, Marxism, you know it's failed it failed intellectually failed and it fell philosophically. There was in a sense an attempt to, to revive Marxism and to reorient it that ultimately resulted in post modernism which I think is far more the source of the stuff than directly Marxism. He was very, very concerned about economic classes. He was very, very concerned about creating this utopia that had everything to do with you know the dictatorship of the proletarian ultimately and he also envisioned the utopian which people were rich and well and people pursued happiness it's a bizarre utopian it's it's detached from any kind of real reality, but he had certain goals and he was striving towards achievement of something. There was very I think different than what CRT is and what intersectionality is and what all these things are I don't I you know Marx himself was a racist. He didn't particularly like Jews, certainly didn't like Jews, even though he was from a Jewish family. You know he didn't like slobs. He didn't like Africans. I mean he didn't like a lot of people. You know he wanted, I guess white blonde. And that was that was his ideal. And it's it's so but his concern was economic. People what people call cultural Marxism. It's not really Marxism because it does it doesn't really relate to the the economic class system, it's egalitarian. It even makes Marx looks good. I think the philosophy that dominates today's intellectuals is far worse than Marxism. It has no positive goals. Its main thrust is destruction and tearing stuff down and putting people down and basically destroying. There's no utopia. There's no, there's no goal that we're heading towards. There's no some wonderful place. There's no recognition of the values that capitalism created which Marx had Marx wrote some of the best defenses of capitalism as an economic system and said, But it plays itself out and what will replace it is is socialism but but he had he has a whole thing about how yes only capitalism people out of poverty capitalism was inevitable as as that is the thing that replaces feudalism. CRT all these things are basically built on hate, not on anything more than that and it is. You know, you know, we talked earlier about morality. So I think CRT certainly intersectionality are the combination of a verse morality. If you think about Christian morality, then Christian morality is about, you know, it's core. It's about the need to sacrifice for others. The small action that you can commit the one that will make you a saint is to die or to achieve extreme poverty or to suffer some horrible outcome, while serving other people. Your purpose in life is to live for others take Mother Teresa take every saint in every museum in a painting arrows sticking through them. They're all about dying in the service of other people. What's the standard by which we should determine whether you should sacrifice for them or not. Well, how oppressed are they how poor are they how miserable are they how suffering are they the more suffering, the more you should sacrifice to them. Now what does intersectionality do. Well, it creates a pyramid of suffering. It ranks us based on how oppressed supposedly we are. And then it demands from everybody at the upper regions of the pyramid to sacrifice for people at the other regions of the others pyramid right. And of course it blames us. It has original sin. That's another thing that intersectionality takes some Christianity. We're all sinners, particularly if you're born with white skin. I guess I, you know, I'm Jewish. I have a little bit of an internet intersectionality before I get some credit because we've been Jews are being oppressed. Basically, the whole idea is the more seemingly oppressed you are the more visible you are the more you failed the more the more poor you are the more suffering you are the more virtuous you are the more you deserve my sacrifice. And the more successful I am the most sinful I must have been the more of an oppressor I obviously am. But if you're the wrong if you're the wrong color though right because if you're a black transsexual non able bodied and you're you know worth a billion dollars and you're still okay doesn't matter how successful you are. Well you're somewhat okay right you're not quite as okay as if you are black transsexual what did you call it a non able bodies yeah not able body and you're poor, then you're definitely more okay on this intersectionality criteria. So intersectionality does have a wealth parameter, but you know, like Marx, but it doesn't have it that is the dominant primary parameter so what we have today is is altruism. So altruism altruism is the is the philosophy coined philosophical term coined by Augustine Comte, the French philosopher it is about the purpose of life is to live for the sake of others, and the more miserable the other is the more you owe them the more and the more successful you are the more you should be put down. It is a combination of that with racism, the identification of people based on the color of their skin and on the race with a heavy dose of nihilism and that is basically nihilism what characterizes nihilism is hatred of success hatred of good hatred of the world really hatred of life and desire to see everything good in the world destroyed. So when you combine all those what you get is the modern left. And I would argue a little bit of the modern rights as well. So I don't want to I don't want to come across it just anti left because I have a lot of criticism of the right as well. I want to explore that in a second but I'm so glad that you mentioned that you almost sympathize more with pure Marxism than the CRT stuff because I made this argument to a friend of mine. Left wing friend of mine and I was like I can't believe I'm saying this as we just spoke about communism is one of the most evil philosophies ever implemented and promulgate them on humanity and it's responsible for 10s of millions of deaths. And I was saying you know I actually have more sympathy for the Chinese CCP, who basically, you know as evil as they are and I want to, you know whitewash anything like that, but they have an goal in mind they want what's best for China and the Han Chinese people and they they do have they do want to incorporate everyone into this into this culture. And with with the CRT, more postmodern stuff it's like well no if you're born a certain way you have no chance it's not it's not going to work out for at least with you know pure economic philosophy like Marxism, you know you can always come on with this you're irredeemable. Real Marxism is irredeemable as well because real Marxism you're born into a class you have no free will you're determined history is determined you're determined. Indeed, what Marx doesn't tell you but is obvious is that in order to achieve his utopia, anybody born a bourgeoisie will have to be killed because you can't change it's not like you could change or you have to go to reeducation camps. So look, I don't want to whitewash anything about communism, it's evil through and through. There's only one thing more evil than communism. That is modern nihilistic egalitarianism. And egalitarianism is the idea that we should all be equal in outcome, even the Marxist didn't pretend that that was possible. So I, you know the best example of egalitarianism and the ultimate place to which CRT and all these other intersectionality and the rest of them are going is what the Cameroons did in Cambodia. Cameroons in Cambodia were less communist, then they were committed egalitarians. What they wanted is equality of outcome. They care about means of production all of that that didn't matter. They just wanted everybody to be equal. So if you had an education and somebody else didn't have an education how do we make you equal. Well we can. So we kill everybody who has an education. If you're smarter than everybody else. How do we make you equal what we can. So we just kill everybody who's smart. If you're hard worker and everybody else is lazy. How do we make you equal what we kill everybody is hard worker. The common rules killed 40% of their own population 2 million million people in Cambodia, all in the name of equality of outcome, or to use a modern phrase which I think is distorted but a modern phrase, all in the name of equity. They killed 40% of their own people in the name of equity in the name of equality of outcome in the name of equity, the way the left today uses it. And nobody cares. Why not look at what equality of outcome actually leads to it leads to death and destruction. Nothing else. No good comes of it. This is not about leveling the playing field, which I don't think you can this this is about equality of outcome and equality of outcome, only death can result of that and that's why the modern egalitarian are much worse, even the communists and that's saying a lot because communism is about the lowest you can get in life. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show. 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