Lester Golden
Feb 10, 2025

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Turning left as Bakunin, Kropotkin, Emma Goldman and Nestor Makhno did requires Kahneman's System 2 thinking. It's hard work, which is why most people won't do it. Turning right requires only System 1 heuristics, tribal feeling, no thinking or tether to reality. That's why the pogroms that nearly killed my grandparents came from the Ukrainian and Polish nationalists and the Whites, not at all from the anarchist Makhnovshchini and only rarely from the Bolsheviks. Universalist ideas require thinking. The default of Jew-hating tribalism doesn't.

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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