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Jiang generalizes that conquerors standardize and systemize knowledge to co-opt intellectual elites and show legitimacy, otherwise elites see them as barbarian conquerors.
"...-opt the elite and to showcase your legitimacy. Okay? Otherwise, the intellectual elite would think of you as a barbarian conqueror. All right? And..."
"...we're, we're, we're seeing a lot of desperation, anxiety among the intellectual elite."
"...French Revolution. But the problem was they didn't actually have an intellectual elite. To lead them in a way that during the French Revolution,..."
"...idea. So, for Marx a really important idea is you need intellectual elite to lead the proletariat into paradise. And this is a name..."
The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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