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Understanding the Dialectic

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James Lindsay: The dialectic is the logic of leftism, at least since Rousseau. He says that if we were to give up some of our freedoms voluntarily, we would have more freedom because everything would work more smoothly. And therefore, we give up our freedoms voluntarily and freedom increases. This is a fundamental idea of kind of negative thinking," he said.

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