Are there any intelligent leftist intellectuals?

and don't say Chomsky; his only relevance in the past 30 years was as an alzheimers research subject

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Zizek and Foucault = mildly interesting
But, of course, unwilling to challenge cathedral taboos

Sarah Silverman

Sam harris.whether you agree with him or not he does a really good job of presenting his position and articulating his ideas.

I wouldn't even call him a leftist. More of an actually liberal centrist.

Wut? I agree with a lot of him but the guy can't argue if his life dependet on it
>getting this easily lured in by his calmness
Oh sweety.

garl margs

>alzheimers research subject

tep kek

lena dunham

do mexican intellectuals count?

Who is better on the left then?

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The problem with leftists, of any stripe, is that no matter what lengths they go to justify their worldview, they are ultimately building it on top of a utopian and academic vision of the world that satisfies their need to compensate for their internal insecurities by externalizing them in the form of unworkable public policies.

Ben Shapiro isn't a leftist, why did you use his pic? As an example of a right wing intellectual?

Einstein

correct

Idk. Would actually be interested in an actual econ defending leftism.

I've been wondering this too lately.

Libfags always prided themselves on being the "intellectual" party. So lately I've been looking for the most intellectual public figures I could find, and I haven't found shit.

The right-wing has all of the best trolls, thinkers, arguers, and women too.

Bill Maher

John Rawls, I suppose.

Of course not, everyone left of me is stupid and probably smells bad too

Yah...

Here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates

christopher hitchens

The fat Socrates lookalike from Melanialand occasionally says something sensible

hitchens is a good example; but he seems like one of the last of his kind

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Wasn't Hitchens full on neocon?

Tbh I cant see real intellectuals from both sides, I feel like they are all not a part of mass culture.Molyneux, Shapiro and Zyzek are light versions of intellectuals for masses and that's it

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Zizek is basically a redpilling leftist, except he inexplicably still calls himself a communist.
Hitchens in his day was unstoppable, but definitely leaned further and further right as he got old.
Jonathan Haidt is incredible, was a liberal but has said he's "libertarian leaning".

He was a flip-floppier. He supported the Iraq war but I don't know if he later regretted his decision. Guy was very confused.

Christopher Hitchens. bastard shouldn't have drank so much, wish he could've seen the world and his take on it today

>Foucault
By the time he died a lot of leftists had started to not like him, and even before that he had disavowed communism in a general sense.

For example, at the end of his life he praising the Iranian revolution even though the Ayatollah was BTFO fags and women.

No he just supported the overthrow of Saddam Hussein

yes, I suppose there is a distinction between public intellectuals like those you mentioned and some sort of private philosophers

yah like 99% of them

at the same time I think Molyneux is not really of the same caliber as the others

Talking for 30 minutes about how Trump's intelligence is like a balloon let go isn't a good job.

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link?

Sam Harris is retarded.

Jordan Peterson is a smart lefty.

What an embarrassment of a man. Jesus fucking Christ, you should shove him and his ilk right the fuck off the White Cliffs.

I can make an example, look at the guy who is one of smartest philosophers in Ukraine, check his view count and sub count, youtube.com/channel/UCpwQ3deqRxm1e2tM6pMZF4A
And then check your average public ''intellectual'' or expert.
And this is ''mass culture'' intellectual, basically fedora tier vegan atheist
youtube.com/user/larinshow

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Zizek is pretty funky ( in a good way )
I strongly recommend Emmanuel Todd for anyone interested in culture, politics and demography. His work is genuinely amazing and will have you gain some tremendous insights regarding nations and ethnicity
He was a leftist when he started out, but I'm pretty sure he's just a jaded motherfucker right now

You have to define 'intelligent'.
The ability to think logically is real intelligence. Leftists think with their feelings.
So, the answer is obviously, no. There are no intelligent leftists.

youtube.com/watch?v=ECl16G6fEQ8

Pretty sure it's this one.

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To play devil's advocate, is love of nation/nationalism, also not an emotional point of departure? Hume afterall said that all reason is a slave to the passions.

Masses are dumb, you apply constructive emotional instrument which is nationalism instead of destructive ''progressivism'', in result you get a functioning society

I see he has an appreciation of Alasdair MacIntyre, so he must be halfway decent

Nationalism to not get murdered by niggers is different to patriotism where you feel really good about your country.
I despise platitude patriotism but nationalism has practical positive effects

The counter to that of course is that with widespread nationalism you get constant wars, which destroy society.

...and aristotle

weather or not you agree with shapiro, its undisputed that his only purpose on this planet is to reduce leftists to tears.
the man is a living legend

He never lost his admiration of Marx (even saying that Marx got it right more than any other philosopher) and the Marxist view of history, all of this was after he abandoned socialism, but he never stopped calling himself a Marxist--he just wasn't a communist or socialist.

>is love of nation/nationalism, also not an emotional point of departure?
I love my nation because of what it produces: freedom, individualism, the ability to live in NYC or the empty deserts. That's what made America great: survival and species evolution. That's not feelings, that's rationality.
Nationlove can be emotion, though.

Cool, thanks user

I hate this already

I think it'd be foolish to dismiss him and his debate tactics entirely just because he's a neocon on foreign policy.

>Jordan Peterson
>lefty

because you're a fucking normie who only knows about right wing "intellectuals" you have been told by the powers who be are okay to read, or in your case listen to on youtube.

And OP is a fucking moron. 90% of living intellectuals are left wing. He's just an edgelord who thinks they're not intellectuals because he's 15 and follows Ben Shapiro on twitter.

And Ben Shapiro is more of a subversive than an intellectual. If you point to ben shapiro as a leading right wing intellectual, you should be laughed at by anyone who has been even minimally redpilled.

Overall, this is an extremely embarrassing thread and proof that Sup Forums is dead. I'm going back to sleep..

Tariq Ali

Uh, well, yes. Fucking leaf.

>with widespread nationalism you get constant wars
Without wars, we'd still live in caves.
War doesn't destroy, it advances society.

Well Marx was one of the great. You can't deny that.
That doesn't make one a leftist

>Without wars, we'd still live in caves.
>War doesn't destroy, it advances society.

>Chris Hedges
>Slavoj Zizek
>Israel Shamir
>Nikolai Starikov
>Norman Finkelstein
>Tom Engelhardt
>Cenk Ugyur

>90% of living intellectuals are left wing.
lulz, user.
Incompatible.
Pic related. You think she's an intellectual, when she's leading her students to intellectual stagnation.

>mfw some communist cum-guzzling nigger unironically thinks there is a single leftist intellectual on planet Earth

The modern left has pushed the window so far that nobody intelligent could truly be called leftist

>I can make an example, look at the guy who is one of smartest philosophers in Ukraine, check his view count and sub count,
That's because it's all in Ukrainian, tard

>Cenk Ugyur

You almost slipped it by.

varoufakis

pretty sure that's contradictory.

even chomsky says amazing nonsense but yes he seems to be the only relevant intellectual on the left that is worth reading/listening to

>Well Marx was one of the great. You can't deny that.
Denied.
Marx couldn't understand basic human psychology.
Marxism is incapable of working. No one with a real IQ above 10 believes in it. It's purely emotional.

>Nikolai Starikov

Man, i fucking died laughing.

Holy christ didn't notice
10/10

Your country is a great example of it.
Twice in the last century you went down a destructive path. War was your only way out.

jordan peterson is a crypto nazi and i'm not saying that like it's a bad thing

He believed in the Marxist view of history, attributed the market crash to Marxist theory, and believed Marx got the world better than any other philosopher--both in a moral and practical sense. I don't see how one could believe all those things and not be considered a leftist. One doesn't need to believe in socialism or communism to be a leftist.

oh, and Glenn Greenwald, though he's quite close to the mainstream.

90% of living intellectuals are probably mainstream liberals or social democrats. Of course that's considered radical left-wing in the US.

Are you even slightly aware of the technological advancements made just during and/or because of WW2? And I'm not talking military advancements either.

>amazing nonsense
>relevant intellectual
This is emotional intelligence. Fake news.

>90% of living intellectuals are probably mainstream liberals or social democrats.

Quick, name 5 Chinese intellectuals who are "mainstream liberals" or social democrats. I'll wait.

That's the opposite of reality

>Marx couldn't understand basic human psychology. No one with a real IQ above 10 believes in it. It's purely emotional.
How so? Marx was way more than just an econom.

Pretty sure Keynes dominated the 20th century.

Yet another thread that proves the general delusion of this board.

Off topic: you keep talking about a day of reckoning, when the right will rise up to exterminate the left. Well that happened once before. It was called WWII and it didn't end well for you.

Fair enough. Don't know much about Hitch

>90% of living intellectuals are probably mainstream liberals or social democrats. Of course that's considered radical left-wing in the US.
egalitarianism/multiculturalism is a radical belief. Cultural Marxism (modern liberalism) is extremism.

Yes

>citing Hume
>just after sargon of akkad made a video citing the exact same thing
>thinking this makes you smart

Hahaha yer

>90% of living intellectuals are probably mainstream liberals or social democrats
And yet they've destroyed every country they control.

How do you define left and right?
Is it as simple as communism or individualism?

>national-socialism was right-wing
>national-SOCIALISM was right-wing

Congrats, of all the gypos in your gypo shithole of a country, you're the gypiest.

what was his context?

*some* amazing nonsense. Not all of it. His books on contemporary politics like Manufacturing consent or Hegemony or Survival are relevant and for the most part accurate.

>That's the opposite of reality
So, hitler advanced your country? The Kaiser did a great job, right?
Both ruled with an elite that excluded your kind. Both would have executed you for expressing your views. Both made decisions that led to the deaths of millions of Germans.

He would hate Trump

Something in my gut feels like he really wouldn't like him. He'd like the trolling but would probably say "other than that, I think he's a fool and and imbecile when it comes to foreign policy and Russia, " or some elitist opinion.

He'd understand how trump was necessary but he'd not enjoy it

>It was called WWII and it didn't end well for you.
It ended great for us.
Hint: click those numbers on the post you want to reply to, princess.

Meh, Marxism is just Heglianism extrapolated out to an extreme conclusion.