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Old 12-24-2011, 07:30 PM   #16
solomon_black
 
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Originally Posted by Alan View Post
Almost none. The pop culture basics of Marxism is enough but interestingly it would help more if students are versed in classical liberal theory, like Rousseau, Hobbes, Mill, and a little Kant, just to understand the marxist counterparts to ideas like human rights, globalization, free enterprise, the social contract, and so on.
Knowledge of Hegel will be important but that is included in the course.
I completely agree. It would be nice if more people knew about Rousseau, Hobbes, Mills, Hegel and Kant. They may look at the concept of socialism a little differently.
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