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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Priority is one thing, to discard revolutionary freedom is an entirely different thing
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Marx definitely believed that *after* the revolution, one’s way of life would no longer be structured by needs of the mode of production
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(though this view faded into background in his mature work b/c in tension w/ corresponding view that post-rev society unimaginable)
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i can see how this might be what you meant earlier, but if so: this just *is* transcendence of the human conditon, no?
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i assumed you were talking about *the freedom of the revolutionary movement* which is (a) premised on a deterministic social theory, (b) “free” in a quite positive sense (if at all)
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