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• Revolution is downstream of economics. Capitalism had established itself by the time of the revolutions in Europe, the revolutions were just a means of catching up
• Drawing divisions between what marxism is and isn’t is a result of the systemization of marxism in the Stalin period, and doesn’t do justice to either marxism or things that are outside marxism
• Good art is art that speaks to the universal
• The fall of c the soviet union marked a back sliding of global feminism
• Can alienation be abolished? Derrick says capitalist alienation is only negative
• Positivism in its objectivity and rationality leaves no space for subjectivity or teleology
• Marx criticized the German idealists for being anti-semetic, but felt that their antisemitism spoke to a real criticism of the world
• The German idealists claimed that the state was producing civil society in a dialectic
• People make the distinction between good national capitalism and bad international capitalism, but they are two sides of the same whole
• Anti-imperialism is not inherently anti-capitalist
• Capitalism imposes a set of constrains on all behavior in society, and even society in general. It’s better to be a capitalist but they are still constrained