where we're like we're like this now we know that people in the past were different but we can't possibly explain how we got from here to here so it's like being caught in a series of like freeze frames um that's completely dissociated and disconnected from everything so you you can't understand anything you you can't know anything and then you can't do anything so um so yeah that's but that I think it's worth maybe thinking about hanging on to the end of history um in in the concept of the end of history in that sense which is that it's no longer something that just has us by uh just by the you know the shirt collar and like shaking us around with no ability to get a handle on it at all yeah

yeah an important point for sure

all right actually I'm sorry um not to interrupt but yeah there was one uh just a passage that came to mind uh when you were reading the passage you just read and then what we were just seeing and um it's just that it's very very important for now and also for lennon and also for for marx and angles and and everyone in this sort of sphere that we we have to understand that uh concert depictions do not end um with the moment in revolution where like the state apparatus is is is aperitander taken away from the capitalist class I'm just going to read something from from now from uh this is I think maybe still in section one of the correct handling um yes it is okay um quote uh marx's philosophy holds that the law of the university the university the which there is a university of opposites the unity of opposites is a fundamental law of the universe this law operates everywhere in the natural world in human society and man's thinking opposites opposites in contradiction unite as well as struggle with each other and thus impel all things to move and change contradictions exist everywhere but as things differ in nature so do contradictions in any given phenomenon or one thing the unity of opposites is conditional temporary and transitory and tense relative whereas struggle between opposites is absolute lennon gave a very clear exposition of this law in our country a growing number of people have come to understand it for many people however acceptance of this law is one thing and its application in examining and dealing with problems is quite another many dare not acknowledge openly that there still exist contradictions among the people which are the very forces that move our society forward many people refuse to admit that contradictions still exist in socialist society with the result that when confronted with social contradictions they become timid and helpless i'll just repeat that line when when confronted with social contradictions they become timid and helpless they do not understand that socialist society grows more united and consolidated precisely through the ceaseless process of correctly dealing with and resolving contradictions for this reason we need to explain things to our people and to our cadres in the first place to help them understand contradictions in a socialist society and to learn how to deal with such contradictions in a correct way end quote and i think this is important because you know just his mouset and his time you know people maybe young people or maybe any people thought that okay once we get you know the bad guys cleared out of the way then all the contradictions stop and you know we all just hold hands and sing and that's clearly not the case there's going to be all sorts of work that needs to be done and you're going to run into problems and disagreements about it and the important thing is that things actually work properly and not that somebody like proves that they're right or that somebody else is wrong or they destroy the record or the revision or whatever it's not about that kind of uh seek and destroy kind of mentality that again we often find over here in the west right and and

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