Hello everybody and welcome back to revolutionary left radio.

On today's episode we have back on the show Professor Matt McManus to talk about his newest book

the Political Right and Equality turning back the tide of egalitarian

modernity and in this book Matt really goes through the long history of philosophical

and ideological thought and pulls out, parses out the conservative, the reactionary right-wing thought processes that have always been sort of present,

especially in the Western philosophical tradition,

and ties modern-day reactionary thought into that deeper philosophical history

so as to understand these ideas and on deeper levels philosophically and

also historically where they come from and we go

through a lot of history and a lot of different topics and issues.

We start in ancient Greece with with Aristotle we move up through the

Enlightenment talk about figures like David Hume of course we mentioned Marx

throughout the episode Marxism is a you know a huge component in our

discussion talk about the French Revolution

Edmund Burke Thomas Payne we go through Hegel go up to dastoyevsky the

20th century right-wing thinkers and you know the various different strains of right-wing

thought occurring there how neoliberalism is a product of sort of Cold War anti-communist

liberalism in a lot of ways and the sort of liberal anti-communist triumphalism that occurred in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

And we talk about figures like Heidegger, like Nietzsche, Dugan, Carl Schmidt, etc.

We really cover the large, large historical chunk of time and it's a fascinating exhilarating right through these

thinkers and what they've contributed to modern reactionary and right-wing political

thought. So as always with Matt McManus he is a absolute fountain of

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