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Dalton Fordyce's avatar

Fuck yeah. Awesome.

In a similar way that Marx never really finished his intellectual project(part of his genius is that he was well aware of some of the deficiencies of his own framework and always self-correcting and non-dogmatic), it seems the concept of the "dialectic" is itself an unfinished idea and leftists have been running their engines on the equivalent of a suped up steam engine for the last 150 years. The fact that we are seeing "unresolved" dialectics probably indicates something is wrong in our conceptions in this whole "history" thing(maybe so much so that Marx maybe shouldn't even be our primarily weapon anymore but that's a whole other impossible to think about thing).

Dialectical thinking seems too tied to the "Di-" prefix, and wondering why it is always finding itself in double-binds and sharp turns into desperate moralism.

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Ain_Elah_'s avatar

R. H. Tawney's Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism is a historical account of how these religious forces were present in the construction of capitalism. imo, for this specific contemplation of religion Tawney is even more important to consider than Graeber & Wengrow's Dawn.

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