The irony of comparing Periyar to Spinoza when former is on record attacking both Jews and Brahmins in one quote.
(Separate matter: Judaism considers Spinoza to be a heretic.)
Savarkar attacked caste consistently - he did not bully one group. Savarkar wanted to organise Dharma.
(Separate matter: Judaism considers Spinoza to be a heretic.)
Savarkar attacked caste consistently - he did not bully one group. Savarkar wanted to organise Dharma.
https://twitter.com/DrSharmila15/status/1434811696590168064
Here is Periyar making anti-Jewish and anti-Brahmin grossly essentialist and bigoted remarks in one flourish. 
So let us not call Periyar a new age Spinoza.
Spinoza was a great man, he was excommunicated for effectively “rediscovering” Advaita Vedanta in some ways, though it was subterranean in the West. He changed Western thinking in profound ways, hastened what we today call modernity.
Spinoza was a great man, he was excommunicated for effectively “rediscovering” Advaita Vedanta in some ways, though it was subterranean in the West. He changed Western thinking in profound ways, hastened what we today call modernity.
Oh let me not even try on Twitter to document the change in Western thinking over the last 500+ years. It is absolutely fascinating: how Christianity was gradually compartmentalised and then effectively rejected first by the elites and now by the masses. Deeply misunderstood too.
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