/lit/ - Literature

>>23516671
>The collective self-confidence of the (former) colonial peoples and the peoples of the "Third World" in general, as it became noticeable above all in the decades of decolonisation, seems today to have evaporated or to only still be represented by a few middle and major Powers, however its meaning for the formation of planetary politics after the Second World War can hardly be overestimated. The said collective self-confidence was not merely based on the new possibilities of political work (i.e. action) hinted at after the consolidation of Soviet communism, but just as much on the sense of world-historical role, in fact mission, which likewise directly or indirectly sprang from communistic influence

>From the perspective of the communistic interpretation of History, the proletarian peoples had to fulfil at the world level a task (or duty) analogous to that of the proletariat in the interior of the developed capitalistic nations; in this way, they got for the first time a world-historical identity and were assigned a world-historical position. Therein, incidentally, lay the hitherto unnoticed political relevance of the well-known Stalinistic five-stage schema of the course of History. In the rigidity with which this schema was formulated and defended one only saw dogmatic stubbornness, but it was a matter of something much more substantial. If all nations, with ultimately insignificant divergences or modifications, must go through all the stages of historical development, then the distinction between advanced peoples or peoples capable of progress and forever backward peoples does not apply; the question of the historical uniqueness of the Occident and of the unrepeatability of its achievement in terms of its civilisation and culture cannot be posed at all. The five-stage historical (five stages of History) schema is therefore transformed into a command in favour of development, a promise - even more: into the certainty of participation in a development at whose end all nations will stand at the same stage (or tier).

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>>22898486
now that bitch grimes is following that sperg autist lmao, great artist my ass

>>22630508
bullshit, philosophy is made out of quality and not out of quantity/importance, 200 years ago Hegel was the fad, nowadays only deranged leftoids and post-leftists read and quote him, he's no longer relevant


i long for a better world where people like Giacomo Leopardi, Panagiotis Kondylis, Reinhart Koselleck and Baltasar Gracián are held to the highest order


angloids are such soulless beings i'm not even kidding

>>22367201
read Kondylis instead of Spengler

for the love of fate, please read Panagiotis Kondylis, fascism was just another manifestation of the mass democratic age, you dumb philistines