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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: Colonial War, Mental Illness, and Psychoanalysis

Red Menace

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Psychoanalysis and the End of Contradictory

The end of contradiction is so unthinkable on some level because every socialist project we've seen has barely even begun resolving the basic bourgeois proletarian contradiction. Freud himself was anti-communist but nazis thought of psychoanalysis they called it the jewish science. The fascist right wing reactionary move in the face of contradiction is to try to destroy it try to purge the elements of the dialectic that it seems that it finds you know undesirable or whatever. i don't know ultimately if contradictions will ever go away if the dialectic will resolve if that's what communism means. We'll get into this in the application section a little bit and then after this definitely be done for people still struggling with these ideas

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