Dr. Michael Rectenwald | Resisting Totalitarianism: The Power of the Powerless

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TOPICS:
- Post-totalitarianism
- Academic freedom v self-censorship and the elimination of free speech
- Post-modernist theory and social justice
- Traditional social justice v its current incarnation
- Characteristics of Stalinism and Maoism
- Revocation of the rights of speech and association
- Elimination of property rights
- Intersectionality or vectors of oppression in the social justice ranking system
- Challenge to individual rights
- Subjective truth backed by power
- Nihilism regarding objectivity
- Repressive Tolerance essay by Marcuse
- Classical liberalism v left totalitarianism
- Capitalists supporting socialism because they’re monopolists
- Socialism on the ground and corporate oligarchy at the top
- The left an unwitting foot soldier of the corporate globalists
- Ownership of goods and people
- Dissidents
- The aims of life
- Living within the truth

Aired: September 1, 2021