Lies, damn lies and concrete universals
Marx says we should understand the past in terms of the present: “human anatomy contains a key to the anatomy of the ape,� and likewise a continuing process of abstraction in material processes gives us increasingly abstract categories (from the present) in which to understand the past.
I wonder if we shouldn’t take Marx’s approach one step further, and understand the present in terms of the future. You may object that the future doesn’t exist – but that is precisely where revolutionary activity comes in. Bat020 is quite right to suggest that my uncritical enthusiasm for lying, below, is a reactionary nihilism. Instead, what we should be doing is fabricating futures.
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