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James Wakefield - The Political Theology of Dune

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Is There a Better Metaphor for Lito Than Stalin?

Stalin is a better metaphor for Lito than anybody just because of the whole idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat is to oppress the bourgeois class, right? So that is effectively what Lito was doing by attacking not only, you know, the Ixians with he motivates them to seek out the technologies to render the spice useless. He also takes down the guild's importance, their source of power within the Imperium, right? He rests away the breeding program from the Benny Jesuit and brings it under his direct control. It reminds me of the way that people or some philosophers characterize the fascist reinterpretation of Hegel in the 20th century.

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