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Vejas Liulevicius

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1242 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

Trotsky also, who dabbled in so many things in his intellectual life, also spoke in almost utopian terms that are just astonishing to read, in utopian terms about the construction of the new man and the new woman.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

Trotsky also, who dabbled in so many things in his intellectual life, also spoke in almost utopian terms that are just astonishing to read, in utopian terms about the construction of the new man and the new woman.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

Trotsky also, who dabbled in so many things in his intellectual life, also spoke in almost utopian terms that are just astonishing to read, in utopian terms about the construction of the new man and the new woman.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

And that out of the raw material of humanity, once you really get going and once you've established a system that matches your hopes for the future, it'll be possible to reconfigure people. And I talk about ambition to create essentially the next stage in human evolution, a new species growing out of humanity. Those don't sound like very modest or limited approaches.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

And that out of the raw material of humanity, once you really get going and once you've established a system that matches your hopes for the future, it'll be possible to reconfigure people. And I talk about ambition to create essentially the next stage in human evolution, a new species growing out of humanity. Those don't sound like very modest or limited approaches.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

And that out of the raw material of humanity, once you really get going and once you've established a system that matches your hopes for the future, it'll be possible to reconfigure people. And I talk about ambition to create essentially the next stage in human evolution, a new species growing out of humanity. Those don't sound like very modest or limited approaches.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

And I guess we just really won't know.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

And I guess we just really won't know.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

And I guess we just really won't know.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

One should add to those factors that have a kind of interrelated logic of their own, the sheer fact that communism comes to power in most of these instances as a result of war. as a result of the destruction of what came before and a power vacuum. So think of the Russian revolutions in the wake of the fall of Tsarism.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

One should add to those factors that have a kind of interrelated logic of their own, the sheer fact that communism comes to power in most of these instances as a result of war. as a result of the destruction of what came before and a power vacuum. So think of the Russian revolutions in the wake of the fall of Tsarism.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

One should add to those factors that have a kind of interrelated logic of their own, the sheer fact that communism comes to power in most of these instances as a result of war. as a result of the destruction of what came before and a power vacuum. So think of the Russian revolutions in the wake of the fall of Tsarism.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

Think of the expansion of Stalin's puppet regimes into Eastern Europe in the wake of World War II and the Red Army moving into Occupy areas in Eastern Europe, although they announced that they're coming as liberators. Consider the foundation of communist China on the heels of World War II and yet more Chinese civil war. Consider cases like Korea, Vietnam. It's likely that this

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

Think of the expansion of Stalin's puppet regimes into Eastern Europe in the wake of World War II and the Red Army moving into Occupy areas in Eastern Europe, although they announced that they're coming as liberators. Consider the foundation of communist China on the heels of World War II and yet more Chinese civil war. Consider cases like Korea, Vietnam. It's likely that this

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

Think of the expansion of Stalin's puppet regimes into Eastern Europe in the wake of World War II and the Red Army moving into Occupy areas in Eastern Europe, although they announced that they're coming as liberators. Consider the foundation of communist China on the heels of World War II and yet more Chinese civil war. Consider cases like Korea, Vietnam. It's likely that this

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

already is a key element in setting things up for further crisis because upon seizure of power, if your expectation is, well, it ought to be relatively easy to get this system rolling and put it on a basis that's, after all, we have the roadmap to the future, there will follow frustrations and impediments and resistance.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

already is a key element in setting things up for further crisis because upon seizure of power, if your expectation is, well, it ought to be relatively easy to get this system rolling and put it on a basis that's, after all, we have the roadmap to the future, there will follow frustrations and impediments and resistance.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

already is a key element in setting things up for further crisis because upon seizure of power, if your expectation is, well, it ought to be relatively easy to get this system rolling and put it on a basis that's, after all, we have the roadmap to the future, there will follow frustrations and impediments and resistance.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

And there's a ratchet effect then there because it'll produce more repression and producing even more problems that follow. What drives the whole thing forward, though, especially in its Leninist version, but already visible with Marx and Engels, is the insistence on confidence. If you have the key to the future, all of these things are possible and necessary.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#444 โ€“ Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

And there's a ratchet effect then there because it'll produce more repression and producing even more problems that follow. What drives the whole thing forward, though, especially in its Leninist version, but already visible with Marx and Engels, is the insistence on confidence. If you have the key to the future, all of these things are possible and necessary.