tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571055663184272276.post5490255004522804961..comments2023-07-09T07:45:50.552-07:00Comments on Socialism and/or barbarism: Clear and frozen danger (Why we need to reclaim our stone-making names before the state better learns to turn them outwards like Perseus)ECWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02142600295759704786noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571055663184272276.post-58587860712026604952009-07-14T10:40:05.550-07:002009-07-14T10:40:05.550-07:00Exactly. I think that the history of Communist pr...Exactly. I think that the history of Communist projects in the 20th century has led us to abandon that powerful Leninist dialectical knot: history is on our side, and historical necessity compels us to intervene in the course of that history to force it in the right direction.ECWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02142600295759704786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571055663184272276.post-81083328067077161912009-07-14T03:51:09.858-07:002009-07-14T03:51:09.858-07:00On yr final comment I thought of Gramsci's his...On yr final comment I thought of Gramsci's historicisation of different forms of historical time, and his argument that the sublatern needs to believe in a providential conception of history, needs to think history as being on his or her side. Communist providence v. capitalist providenceBenjaminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18237178500472453910noreply@blogger.com