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The Dialectical Faith of Leftism | James Lindsay

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The Negative Dialectic of Utopia

The goal again is to identify and seize the means of, seize control of the means of production so that you can set man free. The way that's done is through the negative aspect of the dialectic. You have the idea and it encounters its negative in critique. That critique engenders a negative utopianism. There is a perfect world. We get there by criticizing the aspects of the existing society that we wish to change.

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