Fuck Jordan Peterson
> Slavoj Zizek and Jordan Peterson debate on the concept of Happiness: Capitalism vs Marxism. The event was billed as “the debate of the century”, “The Rumble in the Realm of the Mind”, and it did have the feel of a heavyweight boxing match: Jordan Peterson, local boy, against the slapdash Slovenian Slavoj Žižek in Toronto. Peterson gets absolutely demolished by Zizek! 🤣
1) Albert Einstein The guy who came up with the theory of relativity was a passionate socialist. "Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones." 2) Bertrand Russell In 1918, the philosopher & mathematician said: "I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that the evils of power in the present system (capitalism) are vastly greater than is necessary, nor that they might be diminished by a suitable form of Socialism." 3) Hellen Keller "The creators of wealth are entitled to all they create, thus they find themselves pivoted against the profit-making system. They declare no compromise so long as the majority of the working class lives in want, while the master class lives in luxury." 4) Oscar Wilde The famous playwright wrote an article called "Soul of Man Under Socialism," "Socialism, by converting private property into public wealth will restore society to its proper condition & insure the material well-being of each member of the community." 5) Martin Luther King "Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children." 6) Jack London Author of Call of the Wild "As for me, you wonder why I am a socialist. I'll tell you. It is because socialism is inevitable; because the present rotten and irrational system cannot endure." 7) George Orwell Even though he is considered anti-socialist because of 1984 & Animal Farm, he was actually a staunch socialist: "Every line of serious work I have written since 1936 has been written directly and indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism." 8) Malala. The Nobel Peace Prize winner is quoted: "I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation." So, yeah Jordan Petterson clearly knows his stuff... EDIT: Going to keep George Orwell in for continuity and integrity of the OP, but after reading comments and doing research, Georgie was not a real socialist. A class traitor who took money from the CIA and would flip-flop on a comrade in a second. People are also saying not to take JP seriously. I agree, and probably overracted, but I think it's important for people to know that there are a lot of smart and successful people in history who *just so happen to be* socialists (which is why I purposefully left off Marx and other great socialist thinkers). So while this is in response to JP (was originally a twitter thread), I think it can be a useful list for people. - *[xposted from here](https://old.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/158q86q/jordan_peterson_said_there_are_no_great_socialist/)*
Note: I'm aware that JP is a lot less radical than Qanon but I think this post belongs here because JP was my dad's gateway into other conspiracies JP is fairly famous for hating Trans people - Or as he would say "transgenderism". My dad liked to listen to his lectures and his book but soon became hooked on this "Postmodern Neo-Marxism" idea. He would talk about it so much that even my mom was getting annoyed. Then my brother came out as Trans and everything hit the fan... He absolutely refused to acknowledge my brother. Sometimes not even saying hello to him. We all lived together so things were tense. When we spoke to him about it he told us that soon the world would wake up to the evils of transgenderism. Apparently there were court cases against the leaders of the Trans cult. He compared HRT to "9/11 but in the body". He told me that it's as bad as the holocaust because doctors were mutilating children for money. My mom would end up divorcing him because he was living a second life with another woman (his boss! Scandalous!" - He tells people that my mom kicked him out because she's a Trans activist and divorced him over his opinions of Trans people. He's lying to all his friends about what happened and is pretending that him and his boss only started dating "after the divorce" - a blatant lie. I decided to give him one more chance and had dinner with him where he told me that my brother must be autistic and therefore not of sound mind to know he was Trans. I haven't seen him in person since He continued to send me videos of Matt Walsh talking about a child being trans is a fate worse than death. I told him to stop talking to me about trans stuff but he couldnt help but tell me in his next message that trans people make him nauseated. I blocked him. A friend of mine bumped into him and he told them how much he misses me. I do feel bad but he has done this to himself. All he can talk about is trans stuff and it's exhausting. If we were American he definitely would have been into Qanon. There's no doubt in my mind. I know he also doesn't believe in vaccines or that the virus was real. So yeah - I'm sure you all could relate --- *submitted 3 months ago at [QAnonCasualties](https://old.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/comments/12ly6pr/how_jordan_peterson_destroyed_my_family/)*
In today’s episode, we take a look at Jordan Peterson through the lens of Jungian archetypes – just as he would want – and explore some of his other ideas about climate change, gender, marriage, hierarchies, and lobsters. Don’t check the timecode!