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Scruton is a really good writter, and makes some really strong points! A great book to be read by a 18yr old wanna be conservative like myself. I won't give it a 5 star review cause I think some chapters get really specific and really really boring sometimes. But also that could be my lack of knowledge of the subject, but even in chapters in which I didn't know what he was saying, I still learned a lot of things, especially in chapters 1,2,4,7,8. ( )

Astute combination of reasoned critique and polemic, amplified by quotations from major shrill and barely literate new left writers. ( )

An excellent book by Roger Scruton. He sweeps the tradition of 20th century leftist intellectuals, their goals.

As you read, the book, you will quickly realize how most of the institutions, economy and even language is labeled as bourgeois capitalist. Scruton points out, all thinkers in the left fail to explain, an alternative, make the reader to live in an abstract concept distanced from reality. He argues that, most of the thinkers fail to see the bloodshed as a result. Revolution, is their anthem.

Here's an excerpt,

"Over-determination designates the following essential quality of contradiction: the reflection in contradiction itself of its conditions of existence, that is, of its situation in the structure in dominance of the complex whole. The is not an univocal situation. It is not just its situation 'in principle' (nor) just its situation 'in fact'"

Did you understand? No, you are not supposed to, because, it is immersed in extra-immense prose, while crying out 'let this not be doubted.'


They use newspeak, do not want anyone to challenge them, in a way, their writings are filled with incoherent thoughts. Whoever disagrees is labeled bourgeois. Even to use reason is bourgeois, thus one has to abandon it. In Postmodern culture, everything is permitted, it is vital to forbid, the forbidden.


No wonder, how Scruton managed to read them all. Kudos to him

A great read to understand, all the New Left.

Deus Vult
--Gottfried
( )

An excellent book by Roger Scruton. He sweeps the tradition of 20th century leftist intellectuals, their goals.

As you read, the book, you will quickly realize how most of the institutions, economy and even language is labeled as bourgeois capitalist. Scruton points out, all thinkers in the left fail to explain, an alternative, make the reader to live in an abstract concept distanced from reality. He argues that, most of the thinkers fail to see the bloodshed as a result. Revolution, is their anthem.

Here's an excerpt,

"Over-determination designates the following essential quality of contradiction: the reflection in contradiction itself of its conditions of existence, that is, of its situation in the structure in dominance of the complex whole. The is not an univocal situation. It is not just its situation 'in principle' (nor) just its situation 'in fact'"

Did you understand? No, you are not supposed to, because, it is immersed in extra-immense prose, while crying out 'let this not be doubted.'


They use newspeak, do not want anyone to challenge them, in a way, their writings are filled with incoherent thoughts. Whoever disagrees is labeled bourgeois. Even to use reason is bourgeois, thus one has to abandon it. In Postmodern culture, everything is permitted, it is vital to forbid, the forbidden.


No wonder, how Scruton managed to read them all. Kudos to him

A great read to understand, all the New Left.

Deus Vult
--Gottfried
( )