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The Birth of Identity Marxism as Critical Theory's New Proletariat

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The Importance of Consciousness and Imagination in Modern Society

Horkheimer said you can't understand the existing society from within that society. That's how Nazis happened we could have avoided Auschwitz in a world war if we just would have prevented Hitler from having the ability to speak and so it is today in the entire post-fascist period everything's like a theater where somebody has just screamed fire. So he's conflating the two so let's not think that I've lost my mind here or that I misrepresented an argument which I actually have represented correctly. The power of corporate capitalism has stifled the emergence of such a consciousness and imagination, says Marcusea.

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