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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

And even in the case of the Germans themselves, the... hidden message behind even Nazi propaganda about unity and about German national identity was the Nazis envisioned relentless purges of the German genetic stock as well. So among their victims are people with disabilities, people who are defined as not racially pure enough for the future, even though they are clearly Germans by identity.

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

And even in the case of the Germans themselves, the... hidden message behind even Nazi propaganda about unity and about German national identity was the Nazis envisioned relentless purges of the German genetic stock as well. So among their victims are people with disabilities, people who are defined as not racially pure enough for the future, even though they are clearly Germans by identity.

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

The full scale and the comprehensive ambitions of the Nazis are as breathtaking as they are horrifying.

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

The full scale and the comprehensive ambitions of the Nazis are as breathtaking as they are horrifying.

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

The full scale and the comprehensive ambitions of the Nazis are as breathtaking as they are horrifying.

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

That's right. I would think that the Nazis with atomic weapons with no compunctions about deploying them would rank up there as even worse than the horrors that we saw.

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

That's right. I would think that the Nazis with atomic weapons with no compunctions about deploying them would rank up there as even worse than the horrors that we saw.

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

That's right. I would think that the Nazis with atomic weapons with no compunctions about deploying them would rank up there as even worse than the horrors that we saw.

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

Yeah. And I think that nobody should like oversimplified narratives. We need a subtle and accurate narratives.

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

Yeah. And I think that nobody should like oversimplified narratives. We need a subtle and accurate narratives.

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

Yeah. And I think that nobody should like oversimplified narratives. We need a subtle and accurate narratives.

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

I mean, they're certainly striking and unique historical characters in the record. One of the things that's so disturbing about Hannah Arendt's model of totalitarianism is that leader can be changed. The system itself demands that there be a leader who allegedly is all-powerful and all-knowing and prophetic and the like.

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

I mean, they're certainly striking and unique historical characters in the record. One of the things that's so disturbing about Hannah Arendt's model of totalitarianism is that leader can be changed. The system itself demands that there be a leader who allegedly is all-powerful and all-knowing and prophetic and the like.

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

I mean, they're certainly striking and unique historical characters in the record. One of the things that's so disturbing about Hannah Arendt's model of totalitarianism is that leader can be changed. The system itself demands that there be a leader who allegedly is all-powerful and all-knowing and prophetic and the like.

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

But whether particular figures are interchangeable in that role is a key question.

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

But whether particular figures are interchangeable in that role is a key question.

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

But whether particular figures are interchangeable in that role is a key question.

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

I would think that the reality was probably But that was certainly their ambition. German communists get quoted as saying, after Hitler, it's our turn. Their sentiment was that the arrival of Nazism on the scene was a sign of how decrepit and incompetent and doomed capitalism was. In hindsight, that's almost impossible to believe.

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

I would think that the reality was probably But that was certainly their ambition. German communists get quoted as saying, after Hitler, it's our turn. Their sentiment was that the arrival of Nazism on the scene was a sign of how decrepit and incompetent and doomed capitalism was. In hindsight, that's almost impossible to believe.

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

I would think that the reality was probably But that was certainly their ambition. German communists get quoted as saying, after Hitler, it's our turn. Their sentiment was that the arrival of Nazism on the scene was a sign of how decrepit and incompetent and doomed capitalism was. In hindsight, that's almost impossible to believe.