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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

on August 23rd, 1939, which enables Hitler to start World War II. A non-aggression pact in official terms It contains secret clauses whereby the Nazis and the Soviets meeting in Moscow under Stalin's wary eye had agreed on territorial division of Eastern Europe and making common cause as each claiming to be the winner of the future.

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

So in spite of their oppositions, these were regimes that were able very cynically to work together to dire effect. In the course of the 1950s, in particular, there arose political scientists who also crafted an explanation for ways in which these regimes, although they were opposed to one another, actually... bore morphological resemblances.

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

So in spite of their oppositions, these were regimes that were able very cynically to work together to dire effect. In the course of the 1950s, in particular, there arose political scientists who also crafted an explanation for ways in which these regimes, although they were opposed to one another, actually... bore morphological resemblances.

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

So in spite of their oppositions, these were regimes that were able very cynically to work together to dire effect. In the course of the 1950s, in particular, there arose political scientists who also crafted an explanation for ways in which these regimes, although they were opposed to one another, actually... bore morphological resemblances.

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

They operated in ways that, in spite of ideological differences, bore similarities. And such political scientists, Hannah Arendt, chief among them, crafted a model called totalitarianism. borrowing a term that the fascists had liked about themselves, to define regimes like the Nazis, like Stalin's Soviet Union, for a new kind of dictatorship that was not a...

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

They operated in ways that, in spite of ideological differences, bore similarities. And such political scientists, Hannah Arendt, chief among them, crafted a model called totalitarianism. borrowing a term that the fascists had liked about themselves, to define regimes like the Nazis, like Stalin's Soviet Union, for a new kind of dictatorship that was not a...

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

They operated in ways that, in spite of ideological differences, bore similarities. And such political scientists, Hannah Arendt, chief among them, crafted a model called totalitarianism. borrowing a term that the fascists had liked about themselves, to define regimes like the Nazis, like Stalin's Soviet Union, for a new kind of dictatorship that was not a...

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

backwards caste revival of ancient barbarism, but with something new, a new form of dictatorship that laid total claims on hearts and minds that didn't want just passive obedience, but wanted fanatical loyalty, that combined fear with compulsion in order to generate belief in a system, or at the very least, atomize the masses to the point where they would go along with the plans of the regime.

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

backwards caste revival of ancient barbarism, but with something new, a new form of dictatorship that laid total claims on hearts and minds that didn't want just passive obedience, but wanted fanatical loyalty, that combined fear with compulsion in order to generate belief in a system, or at the very least, atomize the masses to the point where they would go along with the plans of the regime.

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

backwards caste revival of ancient barbarism, but with something new, a new form of dictatorship that laid total claims on hearts and minds that didn't want just passive obedience, but wanted fanatical loyalty, that combined fear with compulsion in order to generate belief in a system, or at the very least, atomize the masses to the point where they would go along with the plans of the regime.

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

This model has often met with very strong criticism on the grounds that no regime in human history has yet achieved total control of the population under its grip. That's true, but that's not what Hannah Arendt was saying. Hannah Arendt was saying there will always be inefficiencies, there will be resistance, there will be divergences. What was new was not the alleged achievement of total control.

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

This model has often met with very strong criticism on the grounds that no regime in human history has yet achieved total control of the population under its grip. That's true, but that's not what Hannah Arendt was saying. Hannah Arendt was saying there will always be inefficiencies, there will be resistance, there will be divergences. What was new was not the alleged achievement of total control.

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

This model has often met with very strong criticism on the grounds that no regime in human history has yet achieved total control of the population under its grip. That's true, but that's not what Hannah Arendt was saying. Hannah Arendt was saying there will always be inefficiencies, there will be resistance, there will be divergences. What was new was not the alleged achievement of total control.

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

It was the ambition. The articulation of the ambition that it might be possible to exercise such fundamental and thoroughgoing control of entire populations. And the final frightening thought that Arendt kept before her was, what if this is not a model that comes to us from benighted, uncivilized ages? What if this is what the future is going to look like? That's a horrifying intuition.

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

It was the ambition. The articulation of the ambition that it might be possible to exercise such fundamental and thoroughgoing control of entire populations. And the final frightening thought that Arendt kept before her was, what if this is not a model that comes to us from benighted, uncivilized ages? What if this is what the future is going to look like? That's a horrifying intuition.

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

It was the ambition. The articulation of the ambition that it might be possible to exercise such fundamental and thoroughgoing control of entire populations. And the final frightening thought that Arendt kept before her was, what if this is not a model that comes to us from benighted, uncivilized ages? What if this is what the future is going to look like? That's a horrifying intuition.

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

Well, I think that this is... bunch of absurdity, and it would be laughable if it wasn't so serious in its implications. To address the points in turn, Churchill was not the chief villain of the Second World War. The notion that Churchill allegedly forced Hitler to escalate and expand a conflict that could have been limited to Poland is

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

Well, I think that this is... bunch of absurdity, and it would be laughable if it wasn't so serious in its implications. To address the points in turn, Churchill was not the chief villain of the Second World War. The notion that Churchill allegedly forced Hitler to escalate and expand a conflict that could have been limited to Poland is

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

Well, I think that this is... bunch of absurdity, and it would be laughable if it wasn't so serious in its implications. To address the points in turn, Churchill was not the chief villain of the Second World War. The notion that Churchill allegedly forced Hitler to escalate and expand a conflict that could have been limited to Poland is

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

that assertion is, is based on a complete neglect of what Nazi ideology was. The Nazi worldview and racism was not a ideology that was limited in its application. It looked toward world domination. The, the,