I don’t remember where I found out about Alasdair Macintyre. I looked it up on podcasts and most of the references were in liberal or outright reactionary podcasts, including one called conservative minds (hello, he was a marxist?).
I love making memes people won’t understand.
Doesn’t sound at all decent and dialectical to me. From the very beginning it establishes a false dichotomy between “bureaucracy” and “individual liberty”. That in itself is a libertarian framing that no serious Marxist would ever adopt.
No, maybe I don’t have enough context in the quote, but his point is that the dichotomy is stupid.
rest of the paragraph:
MacIntyre is clear that he does not agree with either side of this absurd debate peculiar to our current time. Earlier he also had the proper take that “individualism and collectivism” are stupid concepts.
Edit: dialectics at work > me trying to honestly represent the positive aspects of someone’s argument in the comments of my post meant to shit on him
Fair point, maybe the snippet here is missing the larger context where they could be clarifying that they don’t actually believe in this dichotomy.
But praising the arch-reactionary Solzhenitsyn is still a big red flag…
Yeah, you think he’s on his whole “anti-Stalinist” thing mainly because he read some stupid fash fiction when he was younger?
