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Marxism After Marx

Political Theory 101

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Is There a Third Legitimation Story Between Liberalism and Nationalism?

The difficulty for capitalism is that when you're in between swings, you have conflicting legitimation stories. And that could be a moment when a third legitimation story between liberalism and nationalism can intervene. The idea of fettering is an idea of contradiction between the relations and the forces. But there's also another layer of contradiction here, which is the contradiction among the relations themselves. This includes state contradictions, contradictions among states, but also contradictions between states and classes. If it destroys the conditions of correspondence will ultimately end the conditions of coherence of stability.

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