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South Africa’s White Lies, the Ctrl-Left and the Narrative: a Post-Post-Modern Perspective

10 October 201811 October 2018 Quentin Ferreira 0 Comments African National Congress, AfriForum, Alt-Right, Apartheid, Critical Theory, Ernst Roets, expropriation, Expropriation Without Compensation, Property, Racialism, racism, revolution, social justice, Transformation

Written by: Quentin Ferreira This piece is a response to the article: South Africa’s white right, the Alt-Right and the alternative The

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Introducing ‘Krautzone’: A German Libertarian and Conservative Magazine

17 August 201817 August 2018 Dr Harald Sitta 0 Comments Critical Theory, Germany, Krautzone, Political Correctness

We all pretend to know the krauts: They don’t know gardening, have no humour, and no irony. Only gruendlichkeit (thoroughness) in whatever

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Malema and the Myth of Whiteness: An Eastern Cape Case-Study

22 May 201823 May 2018 Anthony Stuurman 0 Comments African National Congress, collectivism, Critical Theory, Eastern Cape, Education, Julius Malema, Racialism, racism, social justice, South African Democratic Teachers Union, unions

The fascist myth of “whiteness” (and other variations) has been used over and over again by Julius Malema to gain

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Black Consciousness In Modern SA: The Oppressor (Part 2)

28 March 201828 March 2018 Mpiyakhe Dhlamini 0 Comments Black Consciousness, collectivism, Critical Theory, individualism, Racialism, racism, social justice, Steve Biko

There is no such thing as a black identity – as I have written before. Each individual has their own

UCT protesters burn priceless works of art. A history dies.

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Max Price Leaves UCT: Who’s Next?

21 March 2018 Prof Tim Crowe 0 Comments Critical Theory, Fallism, Max Price, Racialism, racism, social justice, University of Cape Town

University of Cape Town (UCT) Vice Chancellor (VC) Max Price is leaving: Who’s next? Not to be confused with the

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Black Consciousness In Modern SA: The Inferiority Complex (Part 1)

21 March 201821 March 2018 Mpiyakhe Dhlamini 0 Comments African National Congress, Black Consciousness, collectivism, Critical Theory, Education, individualism, Racialism, racism, social justice, Steve Biko

When considering the usefulness of any idea or set of ideas, it is obviously counter-productive to have as your premise

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Fallacious Fallist Philosophy Firms Up, But Fails

2 February 20182 February 2018 Prof Tim Crowe 0 Comments Critical Theory, decolonisation, Fallism, Protests, UCT, University of Cape Town

Finally, in 2016-2017, UCT’s Fallists and their supporters started to try to explain the philosophical basis behind decolonizing the University

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The Fallacies of Fallist Philosophy

26 January 201826 January 2018 Prof Tim Crowe 1 Comment collectivism, Critical Theory, Fallism, Frantz Fanon, Jacques Derrida, Karl Marx, Marxism, Max Price, Michel Foucault, Racialism, racism, social justice, University of Cape Town

Some, indeed most, fallists, their supporters and radical decolonists have a penchant for basing their actions on their interpretations of

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The Good and Bad of Post-Modern Skepticism

3 September 20172 September 2017 Michael C O'Dowd 2 Comments Critical Theory, History, Logic

The Revival of Skepticism In the era which is now just past, the era of modernism, it was fashionable to

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What is Decolonisation and How Do We Achieve it at UCT?

2 September 201729 October 2017 Prof Tim Crowe 4 Comments Academia, Antonio Gramsci, Critical Theory, decolonization, Education, Marxism, social justice, University of Cape Town

‘Decolonization’ at the University of Cape Town (UCT): What is it? How should it be achieved? Part 1: Chibber (click

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