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"When the French peasants said no to feudalism, that was a verbal expression...of their striving for possession of land, for a free say in their labour and the fruits of it, for political freedom and so on, i.e., something positive. In the reality of society, the terms yes and no are inseparably linked dialectically. There does not exist a no in society which does not incorporate an essentially positive element."
— Mar 28, 2025 12:21PM
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"Hitler was passionately opposed to objective truth, and he contested objectivity in every sphere of life. He regarded himself as the agent for a capitalist display whose purposes he was striving to achieve with ruthlessly crafty propaganda techniques -- in conscious independence of any objective truth or accuracy. In this respect he was truly the clever pupil of American advertising."
Fascist rhetoric in summary.
— Mar 26, 2025 11:19AM
Fascist rhetoric in summary.
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"Hitler's 'originality' lay in the fact that he was the first to apply techniques of American advertising to German politics and propaganda."
— Mar 26, 2025 11:08AM
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"They ceased to possess even the semblance of an ideological bona fides...In their speeches and writings, the fascists poured out with a nauseating show of emotion their national and social demagogic, whose public second names were honour, loyalty, faith, sacrifice, etc. But when they came together in private, the spoke with the most cynical, knowing smiles of their own messages and manifestos."
— Mar 26, 2025 10:57AM
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First Schopenhauer, then Nietzsche. Next target in the firing line: Heidegger.
"The methodology and content of Heidegger's philosophy are expressing...the intellectual philistine feelings in a time of severe crisis."
— Mar 21, 2025 09:24PM
"The methodology and content of Heidegger's philosophy are expressing...the intellectual philistine feelings in a time of severe crisis."
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In which our concerned friend Lukács is here to tell us "I don't know what you see in this Nietzsche guy. He's not good for you." With apologies to those in my undergrad classes who insisted they could fix him.
— Mar 18, 2025 12:36AM
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"Reformist 'reason' not only rendered the working class practically helpless in the struggles against imperialist capitalism and a fascism which was arming itself for a takeover...It also compromised and broke down the old conviction of a rationality in historical developments leading, through...struggles, to an improvement in the everyday situation of the working class and ultimately to its complete liberation."
— Mar 13, 2025 08:36PM
