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Critique and the Linguistic Transformation of Society

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The Point of Critical Theory Is to Refine Words

Critique exists to go take some concept or term and redefine it from its actual definition into one that reifies the concepts of the power dynamics. The broad dialectical left or Marxist framing whichever one you want to call it is that the power dynamics actually structure reality in a particular way. And so then they are talking about material determinism as well as structural determinism at the same time.

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