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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So for Hume you want to look not only at the Whig theory of govt but also at his remarks on recent French historiography
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eg where he implies that if James II had won, UK could have been absolutist, ecclesiastical, and just as “modern”
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