>>13934054Very based. In /sci/ language, he was a poltard schizo. He wrote harsh critiques of the official JFK assassination narrative, he was a harsh critic of authoritarianism and of early continental philosophy, which was largely Marxism and what might be described as proto- Critical theory, proto- Post-modernism at back when Russell was at the height of his career. He was a critic of far-left, moral relativists and social constructivists, but he was also a harsh critic of christcucks and right-wing war mongers.
His work on philosophy of language and logic was also great, and very influential on subsequent analytic philosophers, logicians, cognitive scientists, many of whom arguably outdid Russell himself, but he was probably one of the most influential people in 20th century intellectual culture, just because of his profound roll in shaping analytic philosophy, which had a huge impact on computer science and logic, as well as pretty much all of the social sciences, but especially linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, and economics.