They breeze by it quickly, but the quick references to the gulag and the violence necessary to sustain a non-individualistic system in a world full of individuals seems salient today.
And I don't know what Mr. Wolff has to say about any of that, but a lot of the rhetoric in contemporary academia is that the U.S. is the bad guy here because of slavery, police violence, etc. etc., as if anything in this country's history even remotely compared to the Cambodian Genocide or the Holodomor or the Great Leap Forward. Mr Wolff probably has something to say on the subject, but these are things which undergrads are likely not aware of at all.
They breeze by it quickly, but the quick references to the gulag and the violence necessary to sustain a non-individualistic system in a world full of individuals seems salient today.
And I don't know what Mr. Wolff has to say about any of that, but a lot of the rhetoric in contemporary academia is that the U.S. is the bad guy here because of slavery, police violence, etc. etc., as if anything in this country's history even remotely compared to the Cambodian Genocide or the Holodomor or the Great Leap Forward. Mr Wolff probably has something to say on the subject, but these are things which undergrads are likely not aware of at all.