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A Biological Foundation for Socialism?

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The Restrictive Conception of Utopia

I believe this restrictive conception must be revised, and that the revision is suggestive and even necessitated by the actual evolution of contemporary societies. So when I get accused of saying that what they actually believe is that utopia is what's already there if you just get rid of the power structures that they don't like,. In other words, you give them the power. Utopia is there except it's covered up with rotten, dirty power dynamics. And if we could just rip those away, which is achieved by giving them control and power, then the utopia is already there. This is the alchemy of Markusian thought of critical theory thought of neo Marxism, of liberationism. That's

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