Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2024-06-13
Jordan Peterson & Paul Kengor: books mentioned on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast #455
455. The Devil and Karl Marx | Dr. Paul Kengor
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down in-person with author, historian, and professor of political science, Dr. Paul Kengor. They discuss the lifestyle, writings, and religious ideations of Karl Marx, how communist dogma evolved through modern day, and why equal outcome is wrong on the level of malevolence.
Jordan Peterson discussed The Devil and Karl Marx by Paul Kengor and Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Paul Kengor discussed Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky, Karl Marx and the Satanic Roots of Communism by Richard Wurmbrand, Marx & Satan by Richard Wurmbrand, and The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Devil and Karl Marx
Discussed“The Devil and Karl Marx. And I really like this book not least because it delves into Karl Marx's work as a poet and a playwright.”
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Rules for Radicals
Discussed“Saul Alinsky in the intro to Rules for Radicals, right? Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgement to that first of all rebels who won himself his own kingdom.”
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Karl Marx and the Satanic Roots of Communism
Discussed“Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, who was tortured in the Romanian prison of Pitesti, wrote a book called Marx and Satan. He wrote about it.”
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Marx & Satan
Discussed“Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, who was tortured in the Romanian prison of Pitesti, wrote a book called Marx and Satan. He wrote about it.”
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The Gulag Archipelago
Discussed“you know, the the the Solzhenitsyn writes in The Gulag Archipelago, they put nuns in special sections of the Gulag with prostitutes.”
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Notes from Underground
Discussed“one of the things that I found particularly striking about Dostoevsky, especially in Notes from Underground, is he Speaking of the devils and demons, yeah.”
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Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Crusader
“One of them is for example The Crusader, Ronald Reagan and the fall of communism.”
Plugged Maps of Meaning
“And then my first book Maps of Meaning actually started as about a 40-page poem.”
Plugged Maps of Meaning
“And my first book, "Maps of Meaning," actually started as about a 40-page poem. Wow.”
Plugged The Devil and Karl Marx
“And um as you saw in the book many times”
Plugged God and Ronald Reagan
“And I ended up writing a book called God and Ronald Reagan because I found all this stuff on Reagan's faith that no one had talked about.”