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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Replying to @Pozzidonius
Tbh the similarities between Goebbels novel Michael & the average socialist realist novel is negligible. Jünger was right & Heidegger got duped.
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus @Pozzidonius
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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“Whig history” since Butterfield refers mostly to idea that in every historical episode there are two sides, progressives/reformers and conservative establishment
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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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