How about a show on the right turn of global south leaders? esp Liu Shoaqui, Lee Yew Kuan, Anwar Sadat, Ghana's J.J. Rawlings, Uganda's Museveni, China's birdcage theory
Badiou merges so many threads of thoughts into a neo platonic democratic "materialist". I have learned so much from Badiou and really enjoyed the ride but felt I ended in a dead end. This is based on a reading of "Being and Event"
Thanks for the recommendation. I'm currently almost finished rereading Plato's Republic (Waterfield trans. OWC) and realised there is a lot of trash talking about Plato on the political Left, which misses the mark. The Republic is an exploration of dialectical relationships between the world, society, and psyche. We absolutely should not allow right-wing conservatives to claim Plato as their own. Just one example: Plato's ostensibly anti-democratic political views come from a definition of Democratic which is synonymous with mindless hedonism and politicians determined by random lots. Dictatorships arise when demogigues harness popular opinion in an uneducated hedonistic culture warped by oligarchic market society which harnesses the appetitive and competitive aspects of individual psyches to accumulate money. More marxists should read Plato and Aristotle. In fact, there's a good book by a marxist named Scott Meikle called, Aristotle's Economic Thought.
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Thoroughly enjoyed these sessions, really illuminating.
How about a show on the right turn of global south leaders? esp Liu Shoaqui, Lee Yew Kuan, Anwar Sadat, Ghana's J.J. Rawlings, Uganda's Museveni, China's birdcage theory
It is “in defense of the lost cause” not “in search of the lost cause.” Great discussion btw…
Badiou merges so many threads of thoughts into a neo platonic democratic "materialist". I have learned so much from Badiou and really enjoyed the ride but felt I ended in a dead end. This is based on a reading of "Being and Event"
Thanks for the recommendation.
I'm currently almost finished rereading Plato's Republic (Waterfield trans. OWC) and realised there is a lot of trash talking about Plato on the political Left, which misses the mark. The Republic is an exploration of dialectical relationships between the world, society, and psyche. We absolutely should not allow right-wing conservatives to claim Plato as their own. Just one example: Plato's ostensibly anti-democratic political views come from a definition of Democratic which is synonymous with mindless hedonism and politicians determined by random lots. Dictatorships arise when demogigues harness popular opinion in an uneducated hedonistic culture warped by oligarchic market society which harnesses the appetitive and competitive aspects of individual psyches to accumulate money. More marxists should read Plato and Aristotle. In fact, there's a good book by a marxist named Scott Meikle called, Aristotle's Economic Thought.