My beef with many (not all) Leftists is a simpler one.... by assuming a moral superiority, they make political dialogue almost impossible. Using the soubriquet “Right-wing” to mean “something undesirable” is a small but important example.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
My beef with many (not all) Leftists is a simpler one.... by assuming a moral superiority, they make political dialogue almost impossible. Using the soubriquet “Right-wing” to mean “something undesirable” is a small but important example.
Excellent post.
Bertrand Russell traces both Communism and Nazism (via Romanticism) back to Rousseau.