Tag: dialectics

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Karlheinz Weissmann
Rechts oder Links: Von der Notwendigkeit politischer Unterscheidung
(Right or Left: On the Need for Political Differentiation)
JUNGE FREIHEIT Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 2025

The first time that I visited the United States, I stayed with a friend in Virginia. On my arrival at his home he offered me coffee and blueberry muffins. (more…)

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Parts 1 and 2 here.

Toward the Sunlight

In our last installment, we learned that The Phenomenology of Spirit is an account of how spirit, or humanity, traverses a highway of despair – a path along which it becomes disillusioned with various of its forms, all of which in one way or another implicitly aim at self-knowledge. In the end, it arrives at what it had sought all along, true self-knowledge or “absolute knowledge.” (more…)

Joe Blow Sixpack

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Planning ahead

When Leftists are out of power, they’re figuring out how to get into power. One classic example is Vladimir Lenin’s What is to Be Done? My take is that it’s dreadfully boring, which is hardly unusual for pinko texts. The main theme is why revolutionary Communism is better than organized labor movements that are only seeking better paychecks. (more…)

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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

Pondering America’s political landscape since the 1960s can be rather maddening. For the most part, the Right has been spinning its wheels in a rut. (more…)