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Moderation and Revolution

Moderation and Revolution

Hardcover

PhilosophyInternational RelationsSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0739167189
ISBN13: 9780739167182
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Dec 16 2011
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
In the intellectuality of capitalism there are two alternative ways to conceive of reality: the moderate one, which mediates dialectically, and the revolutionary one, which also comprises ruptures with disappearance. The former conforms to, and helps shape, the metaphysics of capitalism itself. The second is akin to the mode of progressing of nature in general, and forms the basis for materialism. Moderate positions tend to be intolerant because they do not recognize the other, which is constantly compelled to mediate. Revolutionary positions instead, recognizing the other, are tolerant and intrinsically non-violent. In capitalism as we know it liberalism, Marxism and anarchism would potentially be revolutionary. But they have been transformed in moderate modes of thought, similar for instance to nationalism, communitarianism, Christian ideas, fascism, socialism. Thus capitalism has become an intolerant world that seems built to block, by means of mediations, its own historical evolution. The outcome is a fascistic economy and polity.

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