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Talk:Essay: Worst Liberal Books (view source)
Revision as of 19:54, May 31, 2017
, 19:54, May 31, 2017→Avoided? Why should any of these books be avoided?
:I'm not sure if even reading the selected works carefully would work, considering that a lot of the horrors that occurred were precisely BECAUSE people have read them, and they would have been the types to be careful readers regarding their professions' job descriptions, like Robespierre, Marat, and Saint-Just. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 14:32, 29 May 2017 (EDT)
:I'm not sure if even reading the selected works carefully would work, considering that a lot of the horrors that occurred were precisely BECAUSE people have read them, and they would have been the types to be careful readers regarding their professions' job descriptions, like Robespierre, Marat, and Saint-Just. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 14:32, 29 May 2017 (EDT)
::You bring up a good point, but I think the distinction is that the Jacobins ''wanted'' what Rousseau was peddling. Likewise with how Vladimir Lenin read Karl Marx and decided that this was what he wanted to be. Reagan was asked once about communists, and famously answered that "Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." I feel confident without a doubt that Reagan read the Communist Manifesto, or he read Das Kapital, or perhaps both. I'm also confident that Edmund Burke read Jacobin works. Maybe not Rousseau specifically, but he was too specific and knowledgable to simply be making uneducated, surface level observations.
::Saul Alinsky's book ''Rules for Radicals'' is quite possibly the best example. Every tea partier I ever met has read that book, and many own their own copy. I do. I've lent it to others for this specific reason. We need to know what kinds of devious things they are up to.
::The thing is, they are studying our works and not for emulation purposes. Marx himself made it clear that he read ''Wealth of Nations''. [[User:Progressingamerica|Progressingamerica]] ([[User talk:Progressingamerica|talk]]) 15:54, 31 May 2017 (EDT)