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Category Archives: Philosophy
Whittaker Chambers on Communists and Liberals
Whittaker Chambers’ book Witness is a thrilling spy story, an autobiographical conversion narrative, and a piercing look into the communist underground. Written with fervor, clarity, and solemn joy, Chambers is a prose stylist urging that we choose life. For Chambers, what separates communists and liberals is not a difference in belief. What separates them is …
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Whittaker Chambers on Why Men Become Communists
I was unimpressed with The Communist Manifesto, so I found Whittaker Chambers’ Witness very helpful for understanding why men become communists. Why do people become communists? What do liberals really want? What makes them tick? As I seek to understand people and answer these questions, what I find is that everything liberals and communists want …
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The Pathetic Premises and Argumentation of “The Communist Manifesto”
Pathetic. Pitiful. Contemptible. Unbelievable. These are the words that come to mind as I try to come up with a way to describe the world-view reflected in The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It is so bad, so naïve, so poorly argued that I do not think it deserves to be taken …
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