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deletedFeb 1, 2023Liked by Helen Dale, Lorenzo Warby
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I'm really pleased they're having this effect on readers.

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Feb 1, 2023Liked by Helen Dale, Lorenzo Warby

Another fantastic essay. In so many ways, these investigations continue to unpin myself from orthodoxy (and I've never been a marxist) but in a way that as you peel back the onion you begin to realize that you can anchor to hard into anything. Not that I'm subjectivly awash in nothing, but that I don't dig my anchors in too hard, or in only a few places. Seeing how rotten marxism is but with such ardent support, forces me to dig into my own believes and make sure they aren't as rotten!

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Feb 1, 2023·edited Feb 1, 2023Author

Lorenzo's essays have made me more wary of anything with roots in the radical - rather than the skeptical - Enlightenment. It's not just Marxism with those roots; libertarianism and anarchism have radical Enlightenment roots, & need to be treated with caution for that reason alone. The clue is in their wild-eyed optimism about the future.

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Feb 1, 2023Liked by Helen Dale, Lorenzo Warby

Exactly! I love it.

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Feb 4, 2023Liked by Helen Dale, Lorenzo Warby

Hegel's 'thesis, counterthesis, synthesis'....was stolen from Fische.

Yeah, I know. I also was taught that it was Hegel at university. But no, it was just another thing he stole.

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Apr 7Liked by Lorenzo Warby

Lorenzo, you are a great teacher. Glad I found you. Keep fighting.

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Thank you.

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