Is Pragmatism Oppositional to Hope?

Charles Garcia: Does pragmatism hold on to utopic possibility? He says real politique is always anti utopian in that it doesn't operate on the basis of and otherwise. It really just is the mere acceptance of what is and the attempt to make the best of it, he says. García: The need to recognize this is not the battle for me to fight right here and right now. But i think implicit in your idea of a utopia that is also worked on will be some element of hope.

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