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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

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,

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,

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

In the years since the Nazis had come to power, they sponsored programs of education called geopolitics, which urged Germans to think in continents, think in continents, to see themselves as one of the superpowers that would battle for the future of the world. And now, in retrospect, we, of course, can see that Germany was not in a position to legitimate a claim like that.

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

In the years since the Nazis had come to power, they sponsored programs of education called geopolitics, which urged Germans to think in continents, think in continents, to see themselves as one of the superpowers that would battle for the future of the world. And now, in retrospect, we, of course, can see that Germany was not in a position to legitimate a claim like that.

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

In the years since the Nazis had come to power, they sponsored programs of education called geopolitics, which urged Germans to think in continents, think in continents, to see themselves as one of the superpowers that would battle for the future of the world. And now, in retrospect, we, of course, can see that Germany was not in a position to legitimate a claim like that.

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

But the Nazis' aims were anything but limited. In particular, this sort of argument has been tried out in different ways before. In previous decades, there had been attempts by historians who were actually well-read and well-published to argue that World War II had been in part a... contingent event that had been brought about by accidents or miscalculations.

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

But the Nazis' aims were anything but limited. In particular, this sort of argument has been tried out in different ways before. In previous decades, there had been attempts by historians who were actually well-read and well-published to argue that World War II had been in part a... contingent event that had been brought about by accidents or miscalculations.

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

But the Nazis' aims were anything but limited. In particular, this sort of argument has been tried out in different ways before. In previous decades, there had been attempts by historians who were actually well-read and well-published to argue that World War II had been in part a... contingent event that had been brought about by accidents or miscalculations.

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

And such explanations argued that if you put Hitler's ideology aside, you actually could interpret him as a pretty traditional German politician in the stripe of Bismarck. Now, when I say it like that, I think you can spot the problem immediately. When you put the ideology aside,

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

And such explanations argued that if you put Hitler's ideology aside, you actually could interpret him as a pretty traditional German politician in the stripe of Bismarck. Now, when I say it like that, I think you can spot the problem immediately. When you put the ideology aside,

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

And such explanations argued that if you put Hitler's ideology aside, you actually could interpret him as a pretty traditional German politician in the stripe of Bismarck. Now, when I say it like that, I think you can spot the problem immediately. When you put the ideology aside,

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

to try to analyze Hitler's acts or alleged motives in the absence of the ideology that he himself subscribed to and described in hateful detail in Mein Kampf and other manifestos and speeches is an enterprise that's doomed to failure justifiably. The notion that the mass murder of Jews, Poles, Slavs, and gypsies was an event that...

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

to try to analyze Hitler's acts or alleged motives in the absence of the ideology that he himself subscribed to and described in hateful detail in Mein Kampf and other manifestos and speeches is an enterprise that's doomed to failure justifiably. The notion that the mass murder of Jews, Poles, Slavs, and gypsies was an event that...

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

to try to analyze Hitler's acts or alleged motives in the absence of the ideology that he himself subscribed to and described in hateful detail in Mein Kampf and other manifestos and speeches is an enterprise that's doomed to failure justifiably. The notion that the mass murder of Jews, Poles, Slavs, and gypsies was an event that...

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

simply happened as a result of unforeseen events and that it was understood as somehow being humane also runs contrary to the historical fact. When Poland was invaded, the Nazis unleashed a killing wave in their so-called Operation Tannenberg, which sent in specially trained and ideologically pre-prepared killers

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

simply happened as a result of unforeseen events and that it was understood as somehow being humane also runs contrary to the historical fact. When Poland was invaded, the Nazis unleashed a killing wave in their so-called Operation Tannenberg, which sent in specially trained and ideologically pre-prepared killers

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

simply happened as a result of unforeseen events and that it was understood as somehow being humane also runs contrary to the historical fact. When Poland was invaded, the Nazis unleashed a killing wave in their so-called Operation Tannenberg, which sent in specially trained and ideologically pre-prepared killers

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

who were given the name of the units of the Einsatzgruppen in order to wipe out the Polish leadership and also to kill Jews. This predates any of the Operation Barbarossa and the Nazis' invasion of the Soviet Union.

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

who were given the name of the units of the Einsatzgruppen in order to wipe out the Polish leadership and also to kill Jews. This predates any of the Operation Barbarossa and the Nazis' invasion of the Soviet Union.

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

who were given the name of the units of the Einsatzgruppen in order to wipe out the Polish leadership and also to kill Jews. This predates any of the Operation Barbarossa and the Nazis' invasion of the Soviet Union.