Ask a Marxist - Part I (w/ Harvey Kaye)
Movies vs. Capitalism
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Dialectics in Jewish Culture
- The Jewish intellectual tradition emphasizes argumentation as a creative process.
- The saying "Two Jews, three positions" illustrates how a proposition (thesis) inherently contains its contradiction (antithesis).
- This confrontation of ideas can lead to a new, more advanced idea (synthesis), or it may go nowhere.
- The synthesis might combine elements of both thesis and antithesis, or it could be something entirely new.
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