Marxism-Leninism advocated transcendence of the human condition thru technological, social progress. It never broke w/the linear scheme of Whig historiography. Fascism/NS sought to regenerate the mythical conception of time (Eliade’s “eternal return”). Cannot be understated…https://twitter.com/KANTBOT20K/status/1033885013933285376 …
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Tbh the similarities between Goebbels novel Michael & the average socialist realist novel is negligible. Jünger was right & Heidegger got duped.
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There are some inaccuracies here, ‘whig historiography’ for example is a badly understood concept. The main purpose there was to ground the right of the commons in a legal tradition claimed to be continuous since the most ancient and unrecorded British law
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See for example Hume’s essay On the Original Constitution. The term is deployed (incorrectly) as a simple synonym for a basic ‘progressive’ view of history, but really Marx and has views are separated a long way from 1688
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The idea that Marx represents a ‘linear’ model of history is also a non-starter for me, as here the idea of ‘transcendence’ is evoked which is completely contrary to linearity. It should be remembered that Marx’s history is also cyclical at the same time
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But it’s monotonic - the productive forces don’t unaccumulate themselves
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