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The Dialectical Faith of Leftism | James Lindsay

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The Negative Dialectic

Hegel said that we attain maximum freedom by giving up some of our freedoms to make something work better so in some sense maybe there is an optimum that we find in this trade off. Hegel was only so into Rousseau but somebody else we're going to talk about a lot tomorrow was really into Rousseau Karl Marx. The goal of the dialectical faith of left is then is easy to state it is to create through this dialectical process which is a combination of hermetic and Gnostic ideas, he says.

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