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Marxists were intolerant of alternative views. Some dissidents wee imprisoned and others were executed. This c.1932 photograph of a Russian labor camp shows detainees being forced to work on the construction of a canal

A courageous crusader against tyranny, bigotry, and cruelty, Voltaire is still recognized as one of the greatest French authors, and the embodiment of 18th-century enlightenment plato.stanford.edu/entries/voltaire

SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE IS THE MOST RELIABLE AND USEFUL KNOWLEDGE THAT HUMAN BEINGS POSSESS

The French psychoanalyst Jaques Lacan reinterpreted Freud in terms of structural linguistics. As a result he became an important influence on structuralist thought.

Russell spent the last 15 years of his lie actively campaigning against the manufacture of nuclear weapons. Even at the age of 90, he intervened with heads of state during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when the USA told the Soviets to withdraw nuclear missiles from Cuba or face nuclear attack “THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS IS TO FACE THE FACT THAT THE WORLD IS HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE” ~ RUSSELL

THE TRUE FUNCTION OF ART IS SOCIAL CRITICISM

……. Supposing it were found that there is indeed a special pentapeptide released into the blood on the telling a lie, or some queer glycolipid in the sweat of one’s palms, or, worst of all, something chemically detectable in balloons of exhaled breath. The next thing to happen would surely be new industries in Texas and Japan for the manufacture of electronic sensing devices to be carried in one’s pocket, or perhaps worn conspicuously on one’s sleeve depending on the consumer’s particular need. Governments would become involved, sooner or later, and the lawyers and ethicists would have one field day after another. Before long we would stop speaking to each other, television would be abolished as a habitual felon, politicians would be confined to house arrest, and civilization would become to a standstill.~ Page 130