Sublime

Now we say that everything Lenin taught us of communism was false, and everything he taught us of capitalism, true.”

As always, postmodernism and Marxism exhibit significant and intentional differences. The key difference is whether the oppressed suffer from false consciousness as a result of a hidden imposition of power, as the Marxists believed, or whether it is the oppressors who suffer from false consciousness, due to their socialization into a system of

Mais Sidney, nous le savons, raisonne de la façon suivante : le libéralisme, qui est compatible avec l’esclavage, l’est aussi avec le servage. Ces institutions, autant l’une que l’autre, rendent même plus profonde et plus exclusive la façon d’apprécier la liberté.

We think that human beings, at least in ethical theory, all have equal rights, and that justice involves equality; Aristotle thinks that justice involves, not equality, but right proportion, which is only sometimes equality

As President Lyndon B. Johnson said in 1965, “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, ‘You are free to compete with all the others,’ and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.” As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun wrote

L’égalité absolue des citoyens devant la Loi est une idée romaine. À l’égalité absolue des citoyens devant la Loi doit correspondre, tôt ou tard, l’autorité absolue et sans contrôle de l’État sur les citoyens. Car l’État est parfaitement capable d’imposer l’égalité absolue des citoyens devant la Loi, jusqu’à leur prendre tout ce qui leur

According to the spy agency itself, post-Marxist French theory directly contributed to the CIA’s cultural program of coaxing the left toward the right, while discrediting anti-imperialism and anti-capitalism, thereby creating an intellectual environment in which their imperial projects could be pursued unhindered by serious critical scrutiny from