What is Fascism pt. 2 [Eng]
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- Second part of the the lecture at LUMS based on Richard Wolin's book "The Seduction of Unreason" on how counter-enlightenment ideas formed the basis of the fascist reaction to modernity. And how these ideas in turn laid the foundation for much of existential and post-modernist ideas.
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I really admire that teaching style, actually immersing yourself in the ideas even if you're completely opposed to them in order to explain and understand them
Thank you.
Sometimes I wish Taimur would add subtitles when he speaks Urdu/Punjabi/Hindi. I don’t speak the language and would like to not miss any details. Overall a brilliant lecturer and teacher. thanks Taimur!!!
Thank you. Lots of requests to subtitle. I'll try to get a TA to do that for me.
I love it when a lecturer is an entertainer at heart!
found lectures quite passionate and insightful.
i am well an IT consultant having no relations or professional need for all this , but the lucid style and passion shown is quite outstanding
i hope in neighbouring country ppl like u build great generations on truth and knowledge
Last week I chanced upon your video on Fascism and viewed Part I purely on curiosity of getting a Pakistani perspective on western political philosophy. I am no stranger to Pakistanis as I have both studied and worked with a few abroad in my time. As occasional visitor to British Library and SOAS, I’ve come across many Pakistani students and researchers there. Most of them come from elite feudal background and their perspectives reflect a particular vision of life and the world. But I’m glad that after viewing these two parts I looked into your background, occupations and passion which revealed a unique character of a Pakistani intellectual very much tied to his roots. In my student days we used to admire and follow Pakistani intellectuals like Tariq Ali through whatever means available in the 1970s. Fortunately modern media today allow a wider and keener look at things at your end.
I’m personally thankful to you for updating me in the modern philosophical stream post Levi Strauss, particularly the theme of the late 80s and 90s which I was not able to follow because of the preoccupation with job and family. I’m not only impressed by your erudition, articulation and eloquence, but also by the responsive participation of your students to such fact and idea heavy complexity of concepts. I wish you the best for your political career and wish Pakistan come out of the control of the landed aristocracy finally someday. I am conscious that I’m writing it today when you had big rallies by the Students Action Committee all over Pakistan.
And finally I enjoyed your video ‘na jaane kyon’ which is poignantly beautiful and optimistic. I liked the way you have used the landmarks in the video, particularly the Colosseum and the Chapels(I’ve seen most of those places but would consider naming the five pointless in these days of Google). I’m also moved by your dedication of the video to your children. I watched your video conversation with Arvind Saharan which was candidly illuminating. It would be extremely stimulating to meet you and chat up with you sometime somewhere. My blessings from India to you and your family.
T Jena such a nice message. Thank you. Would be wonderful to meet when possible.
Sir I'm pursuing BA Hons in political science from Aligarh Muslim University. Sir I'm a visually impaired student and your lectures help me a lot
Sir now I'm requesting you to please upload lectures on political theory
Thank you Sir for helping people around the world :-)
I don't know if you can read this message but, but something in your message makes me feel fine in my heart. I wish you the best.
@@nicanornunez9787 Thanks
Can't say I agree with this guys track record of political alignment but god I would love to have him as an instructor. Such a great lecturer. Please keep doing what you do.
Thank you.
My gratitude to you on this and the preceding excellent presentation on the intellectual-philosophic roots of Fascism.
I`d like to hear something about ancient indian philosophy by this man!
This professor explains in plain language the stuff that no one else can. Excellent.
I wish I had known all this before meeting followers of these ideas and assuming we'd have a rational conversation.
Outstanding teacher and lecture
Your lectures are truly fascinating. For long i have been fascinated in why does fascism come into existence and how could people support it. Going into the philosophy of fascism makes so much more sense, as we explore why the average working person falls for the ideology
Interesting to hear a pakistani (?) lecture about european history.
Great work knows no boundaries :)
@@pavel672, don't get me wrong, I like it because it comes from the perspective of an outsider, if you will. When I as a German read about fascism, I read about my own history. For better or worse, this influences my thinking about the topic.
@@originalblob Sounds like a joke, doesnt it?
Treffen sich zwei Deutsche in der Kommentarsektion eines Pakistaners :)
Bedazzled Fingernails That’s cultural hegemony.
I’ve listened to hours of his lectures. Amazing teacher
I studied theory in college and wanted to get a refresher as well as a new perspective on the history of 20th century thought. Your lecture series is the most engaging and informative I've come across since Rick Roderick's.
Intellectual Dark Wave wow. Thanks for that great compliment.
Dr. Taimur Rahman might be the best teacher I ever seen. And these lectures are so condensed with good information and intetresting takes! Thank you so much. Please do more english lectures if possible.
Too kind.
excent lecture series! I'm very impressed.
Sir I love the way you talk and inspirationally speak on these mind boggling topics as they seem to be easier and this is the art that fewer are blessed with.
Taimur Rahman is an academic, musician and socialist political activist from Pakistan. He teaches political science at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. He is the band leader and spokesperson for the political music band named Laal. Rahman uses Laal to advance causes which he holds dear, such as socialism, the plight of labour and the suffering Pakistanis/Kashmiris have endured at the hands of religious fundamentalism and authoritarian rule in India. He was also one of the leaders of the Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party. He is the author of the book The Class Structure of Pakistan published by Oxford University Press. The book won the Akhtar Hameed Khan Memorial Award for the best social sciences book about Pakistan in 2012. (Wikipedia)
As an attendant of an astronomy school, I really do have to praise your way of putting the part of this lecture in which you spoke about geocentric and heliocentric systems
Love! You are marvelous. Lucid, fun, linking ideas from everywhere. Thank you!
These are great lectures, couldn’t stop listening till the end. Love how well you show the connection between Fascism and Postmodernism. Thank you for your efforts, insights and enthusiasm.
Professor Taimur, If ever you visit Finland, please, let me know. It would be pleasant to meet you personally!
Please kindly start uploading your video series on daily development topics of what's happening in politics
Very interesting and a informative sir. I enjoyed this very much. Thank you.
This beginning about the stars is really beautiful and I didn't know where it. was going for a while
omg i couldnt love this guy more!!!!
Comrade Taimur Rahman, I really appreciate your classes, and I know you are a very serious Marxist and an expert in historical materialism.
Because of this reason I would like just to notice that, while I understand that this is a class on political philosophy; the historical materialistic analysis of the rise of fascism; focuses more importantly not on the superstructure of the anti-enlightenment movement; but rather :
1) at the strategic level, on the material class interests of the national capitalist and upper middle classes in defense of capitalism against the growing working class revolutionary movement (explicitly as a preventive counterrevolution in contraposition to the October revolution in Russia), and
2) at the tactical level, on the importation of liberal imperialistic techniques from the colonies to the metropoles; i.e. the adaptation of the techniques of social control used in the colonies by liberal capitalist empires (USA, France, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Portugal) into Europe; mixed with pseudo-revolutionary rethoric in order to mobilize the upper stratas of the working class.
The only substantial difference in materialist terms between liberal imperialism and fascism, is not really the degree of violence or the suppressive techniques (which all liberal empires applied in their colonies, including India/Pakistan/Bangladesh in the case of the UK) but rather the fact that for the first time these techniques were used in Europe on a massive scale and with an industrial capacity, against Europeans and other white peoples.
While in reality the only difference is to *whom* these techniques were applied. As long as these suppressive techniques were used against non-white people, non -westerners; they are kind of forgotten and forgiven (in the West at least; I guess that in postcolonial countries they aren't).
Excellent lecture. Thank you very much , Mr Rahman.
It's a real shame that many people have watched the first video but not this one. This is the meat!
Fantastic lecture. Thank you.
Prof. Rahman at one point describes the Babylonians arriving at 60 minutes per hour and 60 seconds per minute by the repeated division of the arcs of a circle. But that cannot be correct -- it would result in 64 of each. Also the most obvious connection between a circle and time is presumably the sundial, and there they chose 24 hours, which requires division by three after the first two divisions.
The advantage of 60 (and, to a lesser extent, 24) is usually hypothesized, I believe, to lie in the number of ways it can be evenly divided, which does not fail until 7 is reached (and, for 24, 5). Why there aren't 60 hours in a day is not obvious, but perhaps there is less occasion to divide days than hours, amd a 1/60th day may not be as convenient a unit as a 1/24th day. Or the pantheon of gods may reach the inconsequential by the time you reach #60?
gandy: Well, I can't follow that math, but he writes that the Babylonians invention all those measurements of time.
@@milascave2 I didn't say otherwise, merely pointed out that his explanation of why they did so is wrong.
And the "math" isn't challenging.
Gandydancer you are right. I wasn’t clear in explaining how they arrived at 60 as a base for time.
Galileo wasn't forbidden from teaching copernicus. He was forbidden to teach that a hypothesis could be true. He was allowed to teach that it better fit appearances of things and that it was simpler. But not to teach that these virtues made it true, which went against not religion, but the accepted philosophical system inherited from Plato and Aristotle. Forbidding it is of course not what we would do today (except when we really dislike it perhaps), but it's still good to remember that it wasn't against this particular hypothesis that the church reacted, but against a completely new way of thinking about hypotheses relation to truth all together.
What a great teacher you are. I wish I had had more, any, teachers as good as you, growing up.
what a great teacher
Didn’t expect to end up with these thinkers when I started this lecture but it was so helpful to understand timeline of the turn from Marx to Nietzsches will to power as the foundation of ideological modern political thought. So thanks for that ☺️
I love love love❤️❤️❤️ These lectures thank you so much for posting😀😀😀
Thank you. you have further deepened my interest in Neitzsche
Hey doctor what do you think of Umberto eco Ur Fascism? I was hoping you talk about that in some point of the lecture.
Bravo! I am a fascist and I have to say, though I disagree with your evaluation, your description is better than most. I found this thoroughly enjoyable and will recommend it to others.
Emanuel Venator yikes.
Wtf 😂
Nice take on rise of postmodernism. Seems to me postmodernism ate itself up, because they swallowed Nietzsche, they lost their spiritual bearings and became a snobby intellectual cult movement in academia. This partly is what gave room for the even more horrific rise of neoliberalism in political economy. The broad "Left" have still not recovered a spirituality which is essential for a sane democratic socialism, imho. But slowly, I think the younger socialists are recovering and seeing the virtue in a humility along with ideals like justice, love, compassion, cooperation and truth. When these great spiritual ideals are held in humble regard, recognised as things we aspire to but cannot perfect, then I think that is when the world will recover from all these atrocious ideologies of the twentieth century. Where Nietzsche went wrong in his analysis of power was failing to realize spiritual power is incalculable and always wins out over physical power in the end. Just takes a while. You see it only in small human acts or in great arcs of history and so forth, but it is hard to see on a social scale within a single lifetime.
Total thumbs up for this, very informative lecture. Tell you what reveals the Doosra, it is humility. We can admit truth and justice and knowledge are all important, without making them into powers that one class holds above another. This was the mistake of post-modernists, they threw the baby (of spirituality and democracy) out with the bathwater (of corrupt power).
Fantastic work.
I woudl argue that reason is the coexistance of dogama and doubts.
you are admirable sir... love your lectures n teachings
Super good teacher, and super interesting topic:)
The religious issue wasn't that the planets were gods. The issue with Kepler was that circles were seen as perfect and holy and ellipses weren't holy or seen as perfect. If the heavens weren't perfect, then the Church's teachings were wrong. Including teachings held to be infallible.
Aligarh muslim univerdity M. A Islamic studies . Well i like whole the two lecture but last part of urs 2nd lecture is quite interesting. Where ideas are like coloured water mixing n synthesizing going outward frm inward n inward twrd outwrd. Here we need to understand although we study those man but last wraping up should be ours
60 is devisbale by 1,2,3,4,5,6,10 and 12. For this reason it is practical for average people even if it is not practical for scientists. This exemplifies why I the nihlist who says their is no proper minute and the scientific who says the proper minute is the one rationalized for science (100 seocnds) are both wrong. Rationalizism a great tool but it ought to be used to make like better for average people not only scientists (like with 60 being divisible by 1,2,3,4,5,6,10 and 12)
Sumerians counted in 60. that's how we get hours minutes and seconds.
again the constellations is Sumerian too.
Where were you when I took a course in philosophy?
Why base 60 for time? Same reason we have 360 degrees in a circle: because the observed motions of Saturn and Jupiter were important planets to the Babylonians. The motions of Saturn and Jupiter are the basis for Base 60 for time. Jupiter takes almost exactly 12 solar years to orbit, Saturn takes 30, which is almost 360 lunar months (hence division of a circle into degrees), and the two have a conjunction in the same place in the sky again every 60 years.
BGHearns brilliant.
Thank you for a good lecture.
Plz upload urdu lectures on international laws and other subjects
It's interesting that I find after studying blockchain technology. The idea of truth is defined by trust. Trust is a product of power used for the benefit of more than than the few.
The Royal Society has a part in all of this as well regarding using social science and changing what science is. Objective truth is found using the 7 liberal arts and sciences known as the Trivium and Quadrivium ( mind and matter)
Is that story about the playing cards true? It sure is a great anecdote.
Comrade please continue the lectures of Das Capitalist.
Das Kapital-you meant
@@johannschiestl2772 Yes.
Two brilliant brains from Pakistan.
1)Taimur Rahman
2)Parvez Hoodbhoy
Respected Sir you are unique in Pakistan!
earth rotates 365 times till it completes a revolution around the sun +-. thats pretty solid, innit. since its in circles of course you could put a 100 for a day as a percentage value, but it would complicate things on the other end of things for convenience on that side if you go further.
I am sorry about previous arguments in your Pakistani Economy video, but the question is why Pakistan teach its children wrong History?
@J C Islam is started 1600 year ago... Indian Civilization is there from last 4000 years
Shyam Bhagat to maintain state hegemony
@J C we're not taught anything in school about the Babri mosque. The OP is talking about the education curriculum.
Wow heard all in loop
Can anyone plz how is it related to fascism , your lectures on Israel Arab conflict are fascinating , where you have taught each and everything in a sequence by joining the events in every possible way , best on internet, but here u really failed completely to provide such pure and crystal clear information.it seems as if I am having a lecture history of modern science and the 1 part of this lecture , it was completely a history of philosophy.
11:00
the fine tuning argument is the argument that shows that there must be a God because everything appears to be so orderly in the universe
This is like the polar opposite of what Jordan Peterson teaches. Both in content and in that it makes sense.
So true.
Toke: Yep. Peterson is trying to cell the idea that post-modernism is a mask for Marxism. This makes perfect sense so long as you nothing about either postmodernism or Marxism.
Professor Rahman, I´d be interested to know your thoughts on Jordan Peterson´s view of postmodernism, since his views are a big influence in the modern digital discourse. I happen to agree with him on most of his psychological analysis, but I´m yet to be convinced on his perspective of postmodernism since it appears to be reductive, specially compared to yours. Thanks and thank you for the lectures.
Sebastian Cepeda he has a video thats highly critical of drug addict peterson
Not about him being a drug addict i just threw that in cuz hes such a dick about me getting my shit together
Please don’t get too excited. I’m listening from my headphones..my ears start to bleed 🩸
I consider happiness as the unexamined dogma.
Acting purposely irrational at a party to impress someone is “instrumental rationalism” 🍻🍺
It is so funny to listen to this guy! The way he portrays the Europeans is very Indian. So emotional. It is hilarious. Thank you for sharing!
AlexthunderGnum lol thank you.
You mean Indic? He's not an Indian but a Pakistani, the culture however can be broadly called 'Indic'.
So does anybody else hear the movie “cool running” when he says power.
Sorry, you were referring to "volen says.. " can anyone please name the work and how this name. "volen" is spelled.. thank u
I wish I was in his class.
Those are the official reasons for the institutions after the war
So there are university students that do not know between a circle and an ellipse? How did they get that far? And what does the future bring? :)
Lawyers must secretly work with Foucault's theories about truth.
When is fascism explained. Maybe someone was joking about the video title
its a 2 part video lecture.
Taimur!!! you also, forgot to tale about 'Martyr of Science’ Giordano Bruno, burning him make science popular among common masses.....
Sir Brexit per aik lecture den plz
30:19 // humanism : another equivocation of opportunism .
6:18 Found it. Wow. The Catholic church owned 1/3 of the (French?) land? I wonder what the break down is.
08:00 Keppler. While I was studying math I was wondering what the formulas look like with Earth in the center.
It must be crazy. But does the nature of that suggest the correct form? It seems to work in only a very limited way in algebra. I am too much of a nube to see how that might generalize.
Why did I bring this up... Lol.
Thats Klassenbildung!
Oh. He's had a haircut.
**[75% Eng, 25% Urdu]** FIFY
80% English 15% Urdu 5% Punjabi
Is there any ideological difference between Fascism & Nazism?? Anyone?
jagdishkumar kukreja no.
@@Taimur_Laal Thank you sir...It was asked in an interview in PMS.
racism
@@Taimur_Laal You said it yourself in pt1: fascism is not necessarily antisemitic.
@@dougcl_ and Nazism is not exclusively only about anti-Semitism
Well there is a lot paganism ion the christian church and greek mythology made a come back with the rennaissance but still...
No wonder you're always so crabby in my class.
Comrade!
please v log on Bhutto and socialism in Pakistan.Some right wight supporters criticize socialism on behalf of nationalization policy of Mr. ZA Bhutto.
Sir, over acting is exasperating viewers. Beg your pardon
So all ideas are ingredients in the divine soup. :-)
Where is the first part?
Nazia Khan on the same channel.
Not all Fascists were Nietzschean! The Romanian Iron Guard, AKA The Legion of Michael the Archangel was inspired by Eastern Orthodoxy!
Eastern orthodoxies does not have philosophical system, it is very practical.
Please critically analyse Holy Quran.1) Wether it qualifies as hate speech. More than 50% of its verses teach hate for the non believers. 2) It teaches discrimination on basis of faith as Hinduism discriminates on basis of birth.
Does it "mainstream" & "normalise" hate and discrimination
See DNC and Schiff
29:33 I thought he'd invented jeans ^v^
Comrade!
Lal salaam
F...k Laal Salam...
Only RightWingers
Lal salaam comrade.
Red salute from Sweden.
This is great. But it would be better if the lecturer had a Hitler mustache.
Nothing good ever come's from France.
Satre, Camus, Derrida, Proudhon, Foucault, Lyotard, Lacan, Boudrilliard...etc Lots of good things from France
@@egoistsolidarity8501 He was talking about fast-food brands. But what about french fries ? What about them ?
When a leggie bowls an offspinner its a wrongin'
Have you ever read Michel Clouscard?
Darth Revan not yet.
I think you are ready......
While the Babylonian shit is fascinating I thought this was supposed to be about fascism?