Fools, Frauds and Firebrands
"In a previous book published in 1985 as 'Thinkers of the New Left,' [the author] brought together a series of articles from The Salisbury review. [He has] reworked the original articles, cutting out [some] writers,... and including substantial new material devoted to developments that are increasingly influential"--Introduction. In a reworking of a book first published in 1985, Scruton begins with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concludes with a critique of the key strands in its thinking. He questions what the Left looks like today, examines how has it evolved, and considers whether there be any foundation for resistance to the leftist agenda without religious faith.
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- There is also an excellent chapter on it in Roger Scruton’s “Fools, Frauds and Firebrands” book.
- The book "Fools, Frauds, and Firebrands" has a recurring theme about how this obsession with viewing everything in the world through the lens of 'power' has resulted in misguided, irrational, and just plain wrong thinking. Often from otherwise smart people.
Power plays a role but it's only one of many. But reducing everything to that is a recipe for missing the big picture.
Foucault's work is one of the great examples of this. He loved to reduce complex systems with many competing motivations as merely the products of power.
https://www.amazon.com/Fools-Frauds-Firebrands-Thinkers-Left...
- Related reading: "Fools, frauds and firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left".
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