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17Oct08

“Revolution confirms Superstition, by offering sacrifice.”
XXXII, My heart laid bare
“In order that the law of Progress could exist each man would have to be willing to enforce it; for it is only when every individual has made up his mind to move forward that humanity will be in a state of progress. This hypothesis may [...]

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18th Burmaire-I

17Oct08

p. 15
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.
p. 15-16
In like manner a beginner who has learnt a new language always translates it back into his mother [...]

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This is a blog that discusses the modes, modalities, and dispositions of contentious politics. It was initially set up to help me write my dissertation in which I grapple with the problems of organizing a movement but has grown since. I chose to call it Red Rhetoric for two reasons. One, because the organization that I am writing about is one of the largest mass organizations of the CPI (M). Two, because Marxist scholarship has dealt with the problem of organizing like no other. See also About this blog.
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