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August 13, 2012 03:34 PM Karl Marx vs the Zeitgeist, or The Concept of Momentum Applied to Politics by Roger Kimball, from Roger's Rules I have always thought that the Hegelian/Marxist notion of historical “inevitability” was one of the silliest aspects of that supremely silly intellectual phantasmagoria. If history has lessons for us, one of the chief lessons concerns the certainty of uncertainty. Pace Hegel, the domain of history is the realm of the contingent, not the necessary. Caesar [...] Click here to read the entire article » |
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