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"Desert" by Anonymous (Anarchism)

Red Menace

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The Death of God in the Politics of the 20th Century

"Nihilism is the perfect instantiation of the nihilism nicha warned us against after all under the rule of capital what meaning do our lives have other than to work and consume," he writes. "Revolutionary socialism as nicha himself made clear can often take the form of christian faith while replacing its contents instead of heaven at the end of life" He argues that we must focus on concrete material reality rather than metaphysical or unknowable supernatural but there is an evolutionary process occurring in human society by natural selection and cosmology, according to his theory.

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