I often wonder if there would have been a Marx if there hadn’t been a Rousseau.
The Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment – the real antidote to Rousseau and Voltaire
The French Enlightenment and the Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment happened simultaneously, in the same century, reading the same books, arguing about the same questions. They reached completely opposite… https://t.co/RUPK08vPlDpic.twitter.com/kmUCgSQ7rz
— Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 (@Kristof_Poland) July 11, 2026
[Update a few minutes later]
This was actually the previous part:
Voltaire – the fake antidote to Rousseau
He is the most entertaining man of the eighteenth century and the most seductive trap in Western intellectual history. He seems like the cure for Rousseau. He is the other half of the disease.