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Free Speech with Doug Lain

Political Theory 101

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The Importance of Understanding the Contradiction Between Civil Society and the State

I think there are some tensions between this kind of account and what we get out of Du Boer in so far as it doesn't seem to be the case in Du Boer that we are having this progressive sequence. The contradiction between the two necessarily produces revolutionary activity or meaningful reform, he says. I don't think I need to go beyond understanding our mistakes within our own self organizing to come up with an explanation still why that happened like we decided that a social democratic turn around Bernie Sanders through the Democratic Party was the best most realistic approach to creating a movement for change after the economic crisis of 2008 according to Habermas. We have never fully taken up the defeats that we've experienced in

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