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...pe of the German soul and very presciently picked up on what National socialism was all about. [Question]: I’m talking about monotheism when I say Ch...

...Nobody wanted it, it was ugly ultimately. It's probably what defeated socialism... cinder block housing facilities, you know, and all this rhetoric. ...

... front of a building. It was a quote from Jean-Paul Sartre. It said, "socialism will not be transcended until we transcend the conditions which creat...

...ckly into the unlimited freedom of the future we loose our grounding. socialism did this over the past hundred years and because it abandoned any con...

...al normative behaviors, then you get a psychic epidemic like national socialism where people voluntarily abandon their individuality to act in concer...

...ld take. We have on the Right the stunning example of German National socialism. We have on the Left the stunning example of Soviet Communism. And th...

...taphysics, jazz, abstract expressionism, even phenomena like National socialism, all of these various impulses in the 20th century, some positive, so...

... uh—in the political s- uh, zone—negative phenomena, such as national socialism. All of these various intellectual concerns, to my mind, can be trace...

...ealism, to abstract expressionism, even to a phenomenon like National socialism which is a negative force. But the stress on ritual, on organized act...

...will not be political or technological. It isn’t starflight, it isn’t socialism; it’s a whole other way of making our minds known to each other, by b...

...he commonality of mind is I think going to be- somehow the triumph of socialism would be the commonality of mind in a capitalist context. That there ...

...tual community this vast repository of integrated mythology. National socialism, surrealism, all of these things- some negative, some positive- are a...