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Theorizing the Culture War with Michael Cuenco

Outsider Theory

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What Is the Theory of the Culture War?

The culture war robs the middle of the capacity to think in concrete, material, structural and institutional terms. It thereby infantilizes and paralyzes the subaltern elites in their place,. renders them wholly incapable of mounting a revolution against the high. In weber's scheme, the middle is trapped in a state of pure value rationality; left without any access to instrumental kind. This makes progress beyond the present stagnation impossible to conceive.

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