America is turning into the Soviet Union(unherd.com)
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America is turning into the Soviet Union
https://unherd.com/2021/08/america-is-turning-into-the-soviet-union/
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If college entrance exams aren’t neutral with regards to race, then wouldn’t any job within that college which requires an employee to be a student at that college be violating the Civil Rights act? You’re effectively employing with regards to race.
Does it mean Americans may get universal healthcare and comprehensive social security?
Maybe, but the quality will be bad enough that you'll miss the old system. The Soviet system is far from the utopia that modern "tankies" will have you believe. The parts of my family that stayed in Russia were killed by the Holodomor, a state-denied semi-intentional slaughter of the annoying peasants.
Surprisingly, only one of my family members died in the Gulags. The rest were executed before they got there.
Surprisingly, only one of my family members died in the Gulags. The rest were executed before they got there.
Yes! Universal but the same quality as Cuba
No but the dollar will be worth as much as a ruble.
Very likely, but with universally bad healthcare. Shouldering the burden of healthcare is a good idea for any society, you don't even need to embrace Stalinism. That was the talking point of conservatives, which liberals somehow adopted "unironically".
I don't really get the point of this article. You can always find similarities in any two countries if you look hard enough. Especially when you are willing to really stretch the connections, as this article does.
> This new way of thinking — progressivism is probably the fairest term — is far less tolerant than liberalism. Indeed, in its hostility to freedom of speech, its Manichean worldview, its suspicion that its opponents are fascists, and the belief that politics should be inserted into everything — from science to children’s books — it is closer to the totalitarian tradition.
So the American Left are totalitarians? The hypocrisy of this article beggars belief.
Have we forgotten that on Friday, the House oversight committee released notes of a 27 December telephone call from Trump to then acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, in which Trump told Rosen: “Just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R congressmen.” The notes were taken by Richard Donoghue, Rosen’s deputy, who was also on the call.
So the American Left are totalitarians? The hypocrisy of this article beggars belief.
Have we forgotten that on Friday, the House oversight committee released notes of a 27 December telephone call from Trump to then acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, in which Trump told Rosen: “Just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R congressmen.” The notes were taken by Richard Donoghue, Rosen’s deputy, who was also on the call.
> a new way of thinking began to predominate in the US that was not really liberal
And that isn't even about the discrepancy of definition between the US and Europe. This is something completely different.
> This new way of thinking was more hostile to freedom of speech, and its adherents began the process of chasing deviant thinkers out of academia that began in the late 1960s and would massively reduce political diversity by the 21st century
Today people call them woke or progressives, but it is not restricted to that. Still, many people cherishing freedom feel displaced when their closest political allies are suddenly economic liberals (more in the EU sense here now). They aren't the brightest stars in the night sky when it comes to determine what is necessary for a healthy society, but you take what you can get.
One of the fathers of the theoretical framework some of their ideas are based on wrote an interesting book. Fear of freedom, Erich Fromm, so it is surprising where they stand today. Or not, given the analysis of authoritarians or what can be the source of such ambitions. Yes, it is psychoanalysis, take it with a grain of salt and some eggs while you are at it, but still worth a read in my opinion. As for why they don't follow their own ideas critically and reflect on their stance towards freedom of speech, opinion and self-determination? Educational degradation, I guess.
That said, I don't believe the US will succumb to communism anytime soon. The arguments are kind of funny though. I heard there was an ex-soldier that accused the US military of being Marxist. Yes, the US military. The military that spend decades of really trying hard to be exactly not that and has put so much effort in it. I don't know why they discharged him exactly, maybe they were just extremely offended. The US military is Marxist... I guess it must be true or do US soldiers own their own tanks? See? Maybe he was onto something...
> This did not lead to a brotherhood of man, amazingly.
I have explained to progressives that this is actually a tactic toxic middle management uses against its "minions". They weren't too open to the idea.
And that isn't even about the discrepancy of definition between the US and Europe. This is something completely different.
> This new way of thinking was more hostile to freedom of speech, and its adherents began the process of chasing deviant thinkers out of academia that began in the late 1960s and would massively reduce political diversity by the 21st century
Today people call them woke or progressives, but it is not restricted to that. Still, many people cherishing freedom feel displaced when their closest political allies are suddenly economic liberals (more in the EU sense here now). They aren't the brightest stars in the night sky when it comes to determine what is necessary for a healthy society, but you take what you can get.
One of the fathers of the theoretical framework some of their ideas are based on wrote an interesting book. Fear of freedom, Erich Fromm, so it is surprising where they stand today. Or not, given the analysis of authoritarians or what can be the source of such ambitions. Yes, it is psychoanalysis, take it with a grain of salt and some eggs while you are at it, but still worth a read in my opinion. As for why they don't follow their own ideas critically and reflect on their stance towards freedom of speech, opinion and self-determination? Educational degradation, I guess.
That said, I don't believe the US will succumb to communism anytime soon. The arguments are kind of funny though. I heard there was an ex-soldier that accused the US military of being Marxist. Yes, the US military. The military that spend decades of really trying hard to be exactly not that and has put so much effort in it. I don't know why they discharged him exactly, maybe they were just extremely offended. The US military is Marxist... I guess it must be true or do US soldiers own their own tanks? See? Maybe he was onto something...
> This did not lead to a brotherhood of man, amazingly.
I have explained to progressives that this is actually a tactic toxic middle management uses against its "minions". They weren't too open to the idea.