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A comment on Two Kinds of Freedom of Speech (or Strangeloop vs. Curtis Yarvin). Parent comment

Re:Two Kinds of Freedom of Speech (or Strangeloop vs. Curtis... by amcastillo on Thursday June 11, 2015 @12:37PM (#9700720)
A lot of people who blog on these ideas maintain pseudonyms to prevent Strangeloop-like witch hunts ruining their professional lives.

Neoreactionary ideas have been picked up and directly cited by cultural influencers like Ross Douthat, Ed West, and William Gibson, however. They see themselves as a right wing Frankfurt School - not noteworthy for their identities, but for their subtle cultural impact.

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Re:Two Kinds of Freedom of Speech (or Strangeloop vs. Curtis... by davidgerard on Thursday June 11, 2015 @12:58PM (#9700860)
> Frankfurt School - not noteworthy for their identities, but for their subtle cultural impact.

ah, the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory? http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism um, ok

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Re:Two Kinds of Freedom of Speech (or Strangeloop vs. Curtis... by amcastillo on Thursday June 11, 2015 @02:22PM (#9701356)
No, the school of social philosophy associated with Carl Grünberg, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse.

Check out Eclipse of Reason, Escape from Freedom, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, and The Theory of Communicative Action when you get a chance. Primary sources and all.

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