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U.S. — According to sources, college students have illegally occupied public spaces across the country to protest what they believe is Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine.
In the last week in cities across the West, and especially university campuses, have been flooded with anti-Israel, even pro-Hamas protesters who have sought to grind urban life to a halt, and in some cases have threatened and harassed Jewish citizens and students. What is the moral significance of these protests, and what irrational thinking leads people to support them? Join Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer to analyze the philosophical issues at stake in this developing issue.
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"It is obvious what the fraudulent issue of fascism versus communism accomplishes: it sets up, as opposites, two variants of the same political system; it eliminates the possibility of considering capitalism; it switches the choice of 'Freedom or dictatorship?' into 'Which kind of dictatorship?' — thus establishing dictatorship as an inevitable fact and offering only a choice of rulers. The choice — according to the proponents of that fraud — is: a dictatorship of the rich (fascism) or a dictatorship of the poor (communism).
"That fraud collapsed in the 1940s, in the aftermath of World War II. It is too obvious, too easily demonstrable that fascism and communism are not two opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same territory — that both are variants of statism, based on the collectivist principle that man is the rightless slave of the state — that both are socialistic, in theory, in practice, and in the explicit statements of their leaders — that under both systems, the poor are enslaved and the rich are expropriated in favour of a ruling clique — that fascism is not the product of the political 'right,' but of the 'left' — that the basic issue is not 'rich versus poor,' but man versus the state, or: individual rights versus totalitarian government — which means: capitalism versus socialism."~ Ayn Rand, from her article '“Extremism,” or The Art of Smearing' [hat tip Δημήτριος Τσίκας]
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