Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "Are Leftists Evil or just Incompetent?" video.
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"If they genuinely believe their headed for a Utopia"
<- In practice the Left are NOT driven by their desire for Utopia. They are driven by the need to hate and stymmie the "right". They basically have a massive number of things they hate as right now : the family, businesses, government, the populace, non-gays, non-trans, non-Greens. They basically hate everyone who's not them. Leftism turned into a death cult.
The interviewee is wrong on the Enlightenment. As a rule, prior to Rouseau, the Enlightenment didn't really have a goal of socialism, or Utopianism. Socialism, in fact, was born in France later. The Enlightenment ended with the French Revolution. Unfortunately the post-Enlightenment of Hegel, Marx, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Critical Theory, Postmodernism and Woke. dreamt up these post-capitalist Utopias and falsely claimed the Enlightenment justified them. Everyone seems to have swalloed the Left's lie.
PS: One Enlightenment thinker Condorcet did in fact author a "progressive" book just before he died. No one of any significance was influenced by it.
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