Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 618 2s2v64

256 words You can buy Alain de Benoist’s Against Liberalism here. Greg Johnson was ed by F. Roger Devlin in this edition of the Counter-Currents Radio Book Club. It is now available to or listen to online. Topics Include: 0:57 – Intro and welcoming Roger Devlin 1:40 – Donations acknowledged 3:11 – Roger’s summary of De Benoist’s book; Locke, liberalism and libertarianism; the market as a model for society. Individualism 5:00 – The “progressive” Left has transitioned to neoliberalism and the market model 6:00 – Failure of Communism; Mitterand’s failed experiment with socialism in the 80s 7:00 – The market as a model; individualism as a metaphysical claim 7:55 – Translating preferences into economic ; what does this leave out of human life? Preferences are not just given by nature but must be evaluated: what should we want? Individual and society: Robinson Crusoe is a myth; Gilligan’s Island is a sitcom, not a guide to life 18:00 – De Benoist as a reader’s guide; Liberalism versus Communitarianism 21:00 – Hegel on civil society. State, family, market 22:10 – What is De Benoist’s alternative? 22:30 – Roepke: society with a market versus market society 23:10 – Gary Becker’s economic model. Overlapping realms 24:00 – Dialectic: Plato & Hegel’s method for articulating a complex whole like society 25:40 – A polemic, not a treatise 26:30 – De Benoist’s positive vision. The common good. Normative values not just given 28:30 – What is sovereignty? 30:00 – Democracy 30:45 – Aristotle’s “mixed regimes” 34:10 – Populism 35:30 – Representative versus participatory democracy 38: 20 – Critique or treatise? 39:00 – Subsidiarity 41:00 – Political correctness and Thatcher. Liberalism and technocracy seek to eliminate decisions and thus depoliticize society 44:00 – The rise of the bourgeois class; has it disappeared or become all-pervasive? 48:00 – Arendt on public versus “social” 49:00 – Questions 50:00 – The example of Singapore. Multiracial but not multicultural 54:00 – Wrapping up. books and podcasts To listen in a player, click here or below. To , right-click the link and click “save as.” https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/s/podcasts/againstlib.mp3   431ym