
A Signifier for the Left
Why Theory
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Is There a Constraint That Emancipates Us?
Paul: The problem with invocations of freedom and emancipation is that they invite the perception that the future that they achieve is one without constraint. Paul: How do we signal that actually you will be emancipated into something that is constraining? He says it's never like this libertarian notion of freedom is completely anathema to the entire history of german idealism. "I think our critique of communism maybe is that it just takes too much work to reclaim it when let's just come up with something else"
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