POLI 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: False Consciousness, Alexander Kerensky, Morality
28 Sep 2018
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1945 and 1989: no return to commonsense moderation, leap manifesto, delivered to the ndp from activist. Ideology in practice: no alternative to political parties, ideology party as last party, need to purify society, not necessarily violent (temporary) Key: dehumanizing oppression must go: means changing the world modern nostist wanted to do this, earlier version: religious gnosticism (escaping evil vs changing the system), cannot get rid of evil but can reduce it. Political thought vs ideological thought: liberalism as policy vs ideology, kerensky vs lenin, post-1(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:1013) failure of ussr does(cid:374)"t (cid:373)atter, no rethinking after failure. Return to origins: unmasking again: now no happy ending, even before 1989 or 1945, the object was power, hatred of commonsensical liberalism was a means (marx again) Cultural marxism: post-capitalism, post-modern etc, new epoch vs new generations, end of a concern with truth, power-knowledge, gender= social construct. Radical skepticism: problem of criticism again, and relativism, difference with rational skeptic.
