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Lecture III: Mimetic Rivalry and Girard's Theodicy | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

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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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