First published 2023
Jerome Corsi examines how contemporary progressive movements connect to historical philosophical traditions. The author traces intellectual lineages from German philosophers Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel through Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci and the Frankfurt School to postmodern thinkers like Jean Baudrillard. Corsi argues that current social justice movements represent evolved forms of Communist ideology that redefine objective truth as subjective experience. He analyzes philosophical texts alongside critical theory works and historical records from Stalin's Soviet Union and Mao's China. The book presents Corsi's thesis that today's anti-capitalist activism stems from this philosophical heritage. Readers encounter his interpretation of how these intellectual traditions shape contemporary political discourse and social movements. Corsi offers his perspective on why certain activists operate from fundamentally different assumptions about reality and values than traditional American political thought.
Genres: political-science, non-fiction, activism, academic, cultural-studies, american-history
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Setting: Soviet Union, China
Period: 19th-century, 20th-century, 21st-century
543 pages · Kindle Edition · Post Hill Press