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1. Intro Video:
Behind the Iron Curtain
Background:
From -350 to 1917:
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We will focus on the birth of “really existing socialism”:
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Ancient assumptions about inequality
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The coming of enlightenment utilitarian values
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Even Abraham Lincoln in the mid-1800s:
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“I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the
white and the black races…. I agree with Judge Douglas [that the Negro
is not my equal in many respects—certainly not in color, perhaps not in
moral or intellectual endowment…”
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(But Lincoln then has a “but”:
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“There is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the
natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence…. In the right
to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns,
he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living
man…”
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Popular government and the market economy: the tension
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Technological cornucopia
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Popular resistance to industrial socialist ideals
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Political democracy insuffi cient for utopia
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2020-12-06
