Ep. 792 Old Left, New Left, Frankfurt School, and Today
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2016
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The left's goals and strategies have changed over the years. Nikos Sotirakopoulos helps us make sense of all these terms -- New Left, Old Left, etc. -- and discusses the shift in emphasis from economics to culture.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 792. |
| 0:03.7 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.1 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.4 | Hello, everybody. Tom Woods here. It is Cyber Monday, 2016. That's November 28, 2016, as I reach you here. So if you're hearing this, |
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| 1:11.6 | is where to be. Today we are talking to Nikos Sotericopoulos, who is a lecturer in sociology at the |
| 1:19.6 | Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University in England. And we're going to talk about |
| 1:24.6 | his new book, The Rise of Lifestyle Activism from New Left to Occupy. |
| 1:30.8 | And in the course of this conversation, we're going to learn about a lot of terms that you hear thrown around that you may not really know what they mean. |
| 1:38.5 | For instance, the new left or the old left, or cultural Marxism, or the Frankfurt School. A lot of this stuff, these terms are thrown around as if everybody knows what they mean. But not everybody does know what they mean. And even if they do know, well, it's fun to talk about these things. So we're going to talk about that in our conversation today. Of course, the book will be linked at tomwoods.com slash 792. Nicos, welcome to the show. |
| 2:04.9 | Hi, Tom. Glad to be here. Just told people about your book. I think the way I want to tackle this is, |
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