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"The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and The State" by Friedrich Engels (Pt. 1)

Red Menace

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Dialectics and the Idea of Historical Contingency in Flux

The idea of historical contingency in flux is a heuristic that i think leftists need to adopt when they're analyzing other ideas. If you start finding yourself tempted by the ideas of someone like Jordan Peterson or the ideas of crass radical feminism then it's time to step back and apply dialectical criticism, says Julian Zelizer. "It becomes a super useful way of avoiding errors that people often fall into"

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