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The Birth of Identity Marxism as Critical Theory's New Proletariat

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The Negative Dialectic of Utopian Thinking

Critical theory says if you want to break free of the pattern of the existing society, you have to think on completely different terms. Adorno's got this statement saying that he that there's no positive image that can be cast of utopia. It can only be expressed in negative terms. This is where Markuzo talks about negative thinking becoming necessarily becomes positive in a sign liberation. Later we're going to read from Henry Juru talking, if you go to my again, translations from the location read the entry for utopia,. pick this up from the critical pedagogy guru of the of the US Henry Juru who imported critical Pedagogy really into the United States and is the

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