Useful Fools
Title | Useful Fools PDF eBook |
Author | C.A. Schmidt |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2007-08-16 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1440679231 |
Alonso, a dirt-poor teenager living in Peru, helps out at the public health clinic his mother, Magdalena, opened, so that he can see Rosa, the beautiful and wealthy daughter of the clinic’s doctor. Alonso and Rosa are both shattered when Magdalena is assassinated by a revolutionary terrorist organization. Left with no hope, Alonso might be seduced into becoming a guerrilla in the same organization that killed his mother. Rosa becomes disgusted with her father’s complacency and leaves wealth and safety behind to somehow help what is left of Alonso’s family. In this coming-of- age novel, C. A. Schmidt tells the story of how love can find its way through poverty and war.
Socialism of Fools
Title | Socialism of Fools PDF eBook |
Author | Michele Battini |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2016-04-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0231541325 |
In Socialism of Fools, Michele Battini focuses on the critical moment during the Enlightenment in which anti-Jewish stereotypes morphed into a sophisticated, modern social anti-Semitism. He recovers the potent anti-Jewish, anticapitalist propaganda that cemented the idea of a Jewish conspiracy in the European mind and connects it to the atrocities that characterized the Jewish experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning in the eighteenth century, counter-Enlightenment intellectuals and intransigent Catholic writers singled out Jews for conspiring to exploit self-sustaining markets and the liberal state. These ideas spread among socialist and labor movements in the nineteenth century and intensified during the Long Depression of the 1870s. Anti-Jewish anticapitalism then migrated to the Habsburg Empire with the Christian Social Party; to Germany with the Anti-Semitic Leagues; to France with the nationalist movements; and to Italy, where Revolutionary Syndicalists made anti-Jewish anticapitalism the basis of an alliance with the nationalists. Exemplified best in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the infamous document that "leaked" Jewish plans to conquer the world, the Jewish-conspiracy myth inverts reality and creates a perverse relationship to historical and judicial truth. Isolating the intellectual roots of this phenomenon and its contemporary resonances, Battini shows us why, so many decades after the Holocaust, Jewish people continue to be a powerful political target.
Useful Idiots
Title | Useful Idiots PDF eBook |
Author | Mona Charen |
Publisher | Regnery Publishing |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780895261397 |
The author attacks American liberals as naive and disingenuous in their dealings with the world, accusing them of rewriting history to portray themselves as "Cold Warriors" along with conservatives.
The Folly of Fools
Title | The Folly of Fools PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Trivers |
Publisher | Basic Books (AZ) |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2011-10-25 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0465027555 |
Explores the author's theorized evolutionary basis for self-deception, which he says is tied to group conflict, courtship, neurophysiology, and immunology, but can be negated by awareness of it and its results.
"Useful Fools" as Diplomatic Tools
Title | "Useful Fools" as Diplomatic Tools PDF eBook |
Author | Paul G. Buchanan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 54 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | International labor activities |
ISBN |
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands
Title | Fools, Frauds and Firebrands PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Scruton |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2015-10-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1408187353 |
A devastating critique of New Left thinking. In Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, Roger Scruton first surveys and then deconstructs the golden idols of left wing thought from the 1960s to the present day. He dissects the hollow works of Hobsbawm and E. P. Thompson, Galbraith and Dworkin, Sartre and Foucault and exposes the lack of coherence in the works of Althusser, Lacan, Deleuze, Badiou and Žižek. Scruton ponders why the humanities have become so unambiguously aligned to the left, and reveals how fully such thinking has seized the academy in its grasp. In this provocative, compelling and highly entertaining book he explains why empty rhetoric abounds over careful analysis and blatant nonsense over respectable logic, in a shattering demolition of some of today's most fashionable philosophers.
Dupes
Title | Dupes PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Kengor |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 614 |
Release | 2023-06-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1684516110 |
In this startling, intensively researched book, bestselling historian Paul Kengor shines light on a deeply troubling aspect of American history: the prominent role of the "dupe." From the Bolshevik Revolution through the Cold War and right up to the present, many progressives have unwittingly aided some of America's most dangerous opponents. Based on never-before-published FBI files, Soviet archives, and other primary sources, Dupes exposes the legions of liberals who have furthered the objectives of America's adversaries. Kengor shows not only how such dupes contributed to history's most destructive ideology—Communism, which claimed at least 100 million lives—but also why they are so relevant to today's politics.