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Post-Liberalism…

Beyond the Three Waves of Modernity (Classical Liberalism, Communism & Fascism) & their Philosophical Assumptions

4 min readMay 8, 2025

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Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left”…

— Herbert Marcuse

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree”…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”…

— Benito Mussolini

“In sum, for the last four years, the world has watched aghast as the United States lost its collective mind and became a radical Jacobin revolutionary society”…

— Victor Davis Hanson

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“There is a commonly held view that the arrival of Modernism represented the liberation of Man. A liberation from the transcendent including traditional moral values and religion (refer to Nietzsche). A liberation from the Human Condition that was inherent within the Contingent Being of Man (refer to Artificial General Intelligence, Trans Humanism, Scientific Gnosticism (Scientism), Nietzschean Übermensch, Nietzschean Will to Power). A liberation from the intolerable conditions and suffering of the Material Realm through attaining a Consciousness — a Gnosis (refer to Gnosticism including Modern Gnosticism, Trans Humanism, Geo-Bio-Genetic-Engineering, Cartesian Mechanical Machine World View, Heidegger’s Technology Enframing (Bestand — Standing Reserve), and Jacques Ellul’s Technology Society & System). A liberation from an independent objective Reality (refer to the Theology of Marxism (i.e. a power-directed system of thought), Nietzsche’s Theory of Perspectivism, Saussurean Dyadic Semiotics, Jean Baudrillard’s Post-Modern Simulacra, Simulation and HyperReality ). The material manifestation of this idea is ever-present in various Revolutions that have occurred across the World post the arrival of Modernity including inter alia the French, Russian, and Chinese variants. Idealism & Materialism — Dialectical Materialism, Praxis, Reflexivity, Historical Materialism and a perpetual OODA Loop of man-made change and transformation. A City of Man (Civitas Hominis) without a City of God (Civitate Dei). Man as God”…

— The Complexity Void

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Richard Schutte
Richard Schutte

Written by Richard Schutte

Innovation, Intrapreneurship, Entrepreneurship, Complexity, Leadership & Community Twitter: @complexityvoid

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