38 | Liberal Democracy in Crisis: Carl Schmitt and the Present
What's Left of Philosophy
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How to Get Rid of Deep Class Antagonisms
Mao: Getting rid of deep class antagonisms doesn't mean getting rid of politics. He says that for as long as human beings can lie, in order to create a coherent collective form of life there has to be an element of enmity. Mao: It's cotoqe to have conflict that doesn't entail domination. And so i we'll just, you know, if we're not doing it in one sector, we'll do it in another sphere of human activity. That is what and ye, there's an anthropological, a kind of pseudo anthropological point that is underlying all this, right, about the nature of human beings.
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