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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: Colonial War, Mental Illness, and Psychoanalysis

Red Menace

CHAPTER

The Status of Marxism as a Science

Allison: We have to subjugate the theory of psychoanalysis to marxism so that it never mystifies it and never asserts these transcendent transhistorical mental structures as the primary first cause of society in place of material relations if that kind of makes sense totally makes sense i completely agree with subordinating it to a broader marxist thing. Todd McGowan's big argument is if you take Hegel seriously contradiction doesn't end there the contradiction is the motor force of all being  it's what allows the dialectic to progress can't ever come to an end but perhaps we should learn to think through and overcome contradictions which are actually more intractable under capitalism than ones under capitalism

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