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Jonas Čeika
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How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the Twenty-First Century
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How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the 21st-Century
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“The forces which dominate us, despite their immense power, are never concrete, visible, tangible — we live under the shadow of their abstract domination. Our activity is for the most part instrumental, but the ends which we are made into instruments for never seem to appear, as if we go through our entire lives chasing after a ghost — some mirage of happiness, fulfillment, shadow of something that would, for once, be valuable in itself. Modernity feels like a permanent transition, but all it ever transitions into is another cycle of its own self-perpetuation.”
― How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the Twenty-First Century
― How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the Twenty-First Century
“At every step, we must demand not only more than they are willing to concede us, but more than they are capable of conceding us, such that the limitations of the present society are exposed and pushed towards their breaking point. After all, at the moment, it is the ruling class which demands of us more than we can give - what is "reasonable" to it is the sacrifice of thousands upon thousands to a global pandemic and impending climate catastrophe. In such a case, being unreasonably ambitious is the bare minimum. One may doubt whether a global revolutionary movement is still possible, but one cannot doubt that it is necessary.”
― How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the Twenty-First Century
― How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the Twenty-First Century
“All of these statist manifestations of Marx had rivals who tried to preserve Marx's revolutionary potential, to wield him as a hammer against these regimes, but, over time, they were marginalized and conquered, and sometimes, to add insult to injury, portrayed as Marx's enemies, both by the open anti-Marxists and those who used Marx to defend existing capitalist regimes. This same vulgarization was committed against Nietzsche by those Nazis who proclaimed the arrival of the Ubermensch in the Third Reich, even when this Ubermensch was characterized by two of Nietzsche's most hated things -- a German and an anti-Semite.”
― How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the Twenty-First Century
― How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the Twenty-First Century
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