
Lecture III: Mimetic Rivalry and Girard's Theodicy | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
Is the Real Root of Evil for Gerard?
Fetishization was simply redirected from objects of production to charismatic Russian leaders. Oppression indeed no longer came from the demands of a factory owner, and now came from the often more unreasonable demands of a central planning committee. Any form of critical utopianism is doomed to fail as human nature will corrupt any such structure.
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