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Read 90% of them yeah. It's amazing. If you like the free software movement, Tools for Conviviality is a must read. But my favorite is Deschooling Society He d
by ttoinou 3y ago
Read 90% of them yeah. It's amazing. If you like the free software movement, Tools for Conviviality is a must read. But my favorite is Deschooling Society
He defines his own terms throughout his bibliography and everything makes so much sense put together (you can apply his logic to the health system, language, knowledge through written books, industrial society, education, gender vs. sex etc.). He didn't tried to make his writing too complex to appear like an advanced intellectual nobody gets, he really tries to make his messages understood, so reading him is also not a pain.
Weirdly, only left wing people read him. But he's actually quite libertarian compatible
- bmj 3y ago>Weirdly, only left wing people read him. But he's actually quite libertarian compatible. There are quite a few on the Right that read Illich as well. He was, essentially, a communitarian anarchist. Some of his thought is well-received on the Right, particularly his critique of institutionalized education and medicine.
- ttoinou 3y agoInteresting, I've never read about that. Who are those people ? Unless you mean people forming Kibbutz, then yeah
- quacked 3y agoThere's a heavily online right-wing presence that admires Ilich; of the people who could be described as "right-wing" I've seen that talk about Ilich, most are either hobby homesteaders or people with advanced CS/engineering degrees that read a lot of "online rationalist" work about a decade ago.
- markhahn 3y agoright-wingers including, it is claimed, Putin.