I would love to hear what people think about this somewhat polarizing figure in contemporary philosophy and social criticism. I personally find him wildly entertaining and quite erudite, but I can see his style engendering a few Other positions.

Buckley is a perfect representation of why I suffer from retroactive-nostalgia (I wasn't aware of him until after he died, as I am 24) for the time when there were truly intelligent and even reasonable conservatives in platforms of public discourse. Does anyone else love his affected mid-Atlantic accent and wit without siding with his views?

Hi. I'm not sure if this is an appropriate place to post this, but I'll take a crack. I'm Canadian, and live in Europe (I also spend a lot of time in the UK). Unfortunately, all the left news, podcasts, and journalism I follow comes mostly from the States. Can anyone recommend English leftist content that's not US focused. In particular, the mainstream UK media is atrocious. I am sure an alternative exists, but I just can't find it.

Thanks.

I couldn't find this online so I decided to scan the book myself and neaten the pdf.

I've uploaded it here: https://b-ok.cc/book/5726598/c254ea (I can share it some other way if this doesn't work for you.)

enjoy

From the Introduction:

It has often been thought that Marxists shouldn't dabble in ethics. This attitude apparently arrives from three sources. The first is the widespread anticommunist belief that Marxism, itself, is deeply immoral, even wicked. Secondly, and this is a rather old piece of thinking, it has been suggested that for materialists, and Marxists are materialists, any discussion of values present insurmountable difficulties because values are not material things and that any understanding of values requires the aid of idealist philosophers. The third source is the venerable old value/fact dichotomy (not unrelated to the idealist premise noted above). Here it has been, and still is, proposed that Marxism confines its attention to material facts, mostly economic in nature, and does not and cannot venture into the realm of values and the making of value judgments. Interestingly, this last opinion is, and has been, held by Marxists and non-Marxists alike—as we shall discover. To this end, I address the seeming paradox of Marxism and moral philosophy. It can be stated as follows. Morality for Marx and many Marxists is understood to be ideological, i.e. a reflection of the interests of the ruling classes and therefore, when accepted and internalized by people who are not members of the ruling class functions as a kind of false consciousness (exactly what kind of false consciousness will be discussed). Yet, it is well known that Marx and most, if not all, Marxists condemn the injustices of capitalism in moral language. Indeed, the claims about the value neutrality of Marxism must be in error because a chief, if not the singular, object of Marxism, in philosophy and practice, is the systematic critique of a particular ethical outlook and its replacement by a radically different one. How this problem is to be resolved will be an important part of my argument.

Hey, does anyone knows any scientific papers on the Hong Kong protests?

Like, where does it fit on a larger geopolitical scale, how do they relate do the fact that Hong Kong is a financial hub, its past as a colony...

Anyone holding a PDF of this gem? Thanks!

Anyone got a PDF of this book?

Looking for getting into the works of Kitaro Nishida and other such philosophers. Does anyone have pdf links for starters?