Let’s look closer at Rousseau’s political writings to see the ideas they sowed, the destructive fruits they reaped, and the roots they left to feed our culture’s worldview today. In that post, I mentioned how Rousseau’s unbiblical worldview gave rise to the faulty conclusions in his book, The Social Contract. That’s why I stopped by Rousseau’s house in Switzerland during my backpacking journey to trace the history of Marxism, as my last blog post described. But as we’ll soon see, eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacque Rousseau-whose thinking continues to majorly impact Western culture-suggested the answer is e.Ĭonsidering how this answer paints a picture which looks suspiciously like life under later communist regimes, it’s no wonder Rousseau played a vital (if sometimes indirect) role in influencing the thinking behind Marxism. Many people who have grown up in liberal democracies would answer f. Political dissent is punishable by death.Private property is ultimately controlled by the state.
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