Sunday, January 29, 2017

Marxism..helped itself to the worst idea in the Christian Bible, a millenial cataclysm that will bring about a utopia

and restore prelapsarian innocence.  And it violently rejected the humanism and liberalism of the Enlightenment, which placed the autonomy and flourishing of individuals as the ultimate goal of political systems.
-Steven Pinker in The Better Angels of Our Nature

“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”

 -Immanuel Kant, in  Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose