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Is There a Difference Between Socialism and Marxism?

I think there's no such thing as sadomasochism, that there's this fundamental divide between the two. And I think he rightfully comes out on the side of masochism. But it's interesting because if you think about who elected Trump, it is overwhelmingly the peasantry,. Like the rural, the white rural class. That's an aggregate of particulars, does not a universal universality. So we all have to go with any kind of self-flattening or self-indulgence in order for us to be able to make sense of our world.

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