Thread by @SAH16928046

What are the commonalities among these three?
1. Marxist theory of surplus-value
2. Freudian theory of Libido, aka Id
3. Lévi-Strauss theory of Structural Anthropology

You must listen and try to decipher the CBC Massey Lectures delivered by #George #Steiner back in 1974 to answer the above tweet.
I have the greatest respect for this polyglot scholar par excellence.

So was Karl #Marx and his #Hegelian Materialistic #Dialectic that explained the economic history of social #evolution using scientific processes, a by-product of #Romanticism that had swept European Intellectual and Literary Circles?

To understand how #Romanticism affected the social, political, and economic thought processes in Europe, you must read #Isaiah #Berlin.
It's the most cynical attack on this movement, which needs requires a multi-dimensional analysis.

From Development Economics, and Sociology Perspectives, we should be able to distinguish between Positive and Negative Freedoms aka Civil Liberties.
Negative Freedoms will lead us into anarchy!
#Populism and Identity Politics are good examples of that.

I always ask populists and reactionary intellectuals who oppose time-tested models and theories, to come up with an exciting alternative system or theory, which would offer better living conditions for the masses.
I fail to get an answer.

The problem is that there cannot be a theory of everything in Social Sciences.
This #Astrophysics induced obsession must come to an end!
Societies cannot be written down or validated as axiomatic mathematical proofs.

Also, we have most certainly reached the end of history, as predicted by Francis #Fukuyama.

The adoption of market economics by collectivists on the left of the centre in politics such as former UK PM Blair and others around the world is an admittance of that reality.

What is trying to replace you is very much like you!

It's the same voice with a different accent emerging within your mind.

That is the concluding tweet.