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[BEST OF] American Exceptionalism and Innocence: Liberal Ideology and American Creation Myths

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The Importance of Understanding Idealism

Hamilton is a really good example of how ideology works. People saying they're non-ideological are as i've said earlier the most ideological. understanding that difference between materialist analysis of u.s history and an idealist version of it is really important to help especially for americans trying to learn this stuff. The revolution was actually not an inherently progressive one but an actually a counter revolution. There's much mythology and vicious lies to demonize socialism and make it unpalatable for those who are trapped in this imperial core Trying to figure out how to organize a working class movement so we wanted to talk about world war two in the cold war.

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