Did Jordan Peterson Forget What Marx Wrote in the Communist Manifesto?

Judging by the Marx passages in his new book, Peterson not only hasn't read a word of Marx since he read the Manifesto to prepare for his debate with Žižek in 2019 but he's forgotten much of that.

Dec 08, 2024

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In 2019, Jordan Peterson debated Slovenian Marxist intellectual Slavoj Žižek in Toronto. In his opening statement, he said:

Alright, so how did I prepare for this? Um, I went, I familiarized myself to the degree that it was possible with Slavoj Zizek’s work, and that wasn't that possible because he has a lot of work and he's a very original thinker and t…

Did Jordan Peterson Forget What Marx Wrote in the Communist Manifesto?

Judging by the Marx passages in his new book, Peterson not only hasn't read a word of Marx since he read the Manifesto to prepare for his debate with Žižek in 2019 but he's forgotten much of that.

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