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54 | Expropriating the Expropriators w/ Dr. Jacob Blumenfeld

What's Left of Philosophy

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What's Wrong With Controversies?

Hegel's conception of colonialism appears here. He says it doesn't really resolve the problem. It just creates another problem over there. For Hegel, it's like, yeah, problem, that's just part of who we are. We're problematic contradictory beings. So these problems arise, these kind of internal contradictions you could say arise, but it's not like they ruin the system, I think, for Hegel. They just point to a problem that's like, it's just there. Whereas for Ficca, if you don't have property, the system's over. It's unjust. As long as it's over there. And so on and so forth.

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