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The Lacanian Left, Self-Help, and the Family feat. Richard Seymour

Emancipations Podcast

CHAPTER

The Dangers of the Ruling Class in the Face of Demographic and Social Developments

I think we are facing a situation in which, yes, it will be less possible to have children, because I mean, it's not even in the future. This is happening now. That's why, you know, the demographic transition is such that we're going to be having less children anyway. And if our only response to that is to become conservative, and, you know,. basically to become a reactionary, then essentially, we are going to be left behind as the family is eroding in practical terms. It doesn't seem to me that there's any future in setting our face against the direction, the momentum of history, and becoming conservatives on this sort of question. Maybe if

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