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Engerland: the dialectic's point of change?

Engerland: the dialectic's point of change?

Did the left, the team and the progressive majority just pull off a major piece of cultural politics? Or was it all a dream?

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Jul 16, 2021
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When you watch a mass cultural event build, take place, reach a critical crescendo - and then re-stabilise, into a new and scratchy disequilibrium - you need a specific language to describe it. 

Since most of the British press have never read Hegel their ability to grasp what just happened is reduced to a series of garbled exclamations.

So thank f**k for …

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