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janoskar.hansen@gmail.com's avatar

this is of course academic and makes one proud to belong to a state

however, what difference does it make for us working-class people

we want bread on the table and work regardless of ancient history

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Andrew Oakley's avatar

This statement gets to the crux of the matter: "It is very important to pay attention to the Soviet period because Marxist materialistic views dominated then. Historical materialism shared the universality of Western culture but offered a socialist rather than a capitalist interpretation of it." Materialism discards tradition and concomitant ideas of transcendence in an ill-advised attempt to create a universal heaven on Earth. As philosopher Eric Voegelin so wisely argued, ideological zeal to immanentize the eschaton leads to human misery.

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