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Hegel and Race

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Is Dialectics an Anti-Racist Idea?

I think the notion that we have to reconcile ourselves with contradiction is an anti-racist idea, because racism depends upon the translation of contradiction into opposition. And so there's this, I mean, racism just has to have the absolute dividing line. Can you think of a dialectical racism? I could only think of it in terms of synthesis, right? Only in terms of dialect.

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