S8 Ep119: HEADLINE: The Philosophical Roots of Communism and the Unmasking at Tiananmen Square GUEST AUTHOR: Professor Sean McMeekin 50-WORD SUMMARY: The Tiananmen Square massacre (1989) unmasked the

HEADLINE: The Philosophical Roots of Communism and the Unmasking at Tiananmen Square GUEST AUTHOR:Professor Sean McMeekin 50-WORD SUMMARY: The Tiananmen Square massacre (1989) unmasked the brutal core of communism, akin to Kronstadt. Karl Marx derived the dialectical concept of history as binary class struggle (oppressors/oppressed) from Hegelianism. Marx defined communism as the "negation of the negation," advocating a violent cataclysm driven by philosophical principles rather than political economy.