In part 2 of this series, School of Vice described an academic theory called Hobson-Leninism. The theory describes what the industrial societies of white Europe are supposedly to have done during the colonial period; that is they took advantage of far off places in native black or brown lands, stripped them of natural resources, abused the indigenous population; and essentially do......
]]>The economist F.A. Hayek defined an intellectual as a “professional secondhand dealer in ideas” with secondhand meaning second in the order of the transmission of ideas. Experts – academics, scholars, or other original thinkers – are the source of ideas. For Thomas Sowell, an intellectual is someone whose job is to deal in words*. The job begins and ends with ideas and/or the words used......
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