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9.2.09

Hegels arbitrary psychology

From The Rebel:

The arbitrary psychology set in motion by Hegel's [idea that values are only found at the end of history is] as human minds in bling combat, dimly groping on the sands, like crabs that finally come to grips in a fight to the death, and voluntarily abandoned the equally legitimate image of beams of light painfully searching for on another in the night and finally focusing together in a blaze of illumination.

If the revolution is the only positive value, it has a right to claim everything - even the denunciation and therefore the sacrifice of the friend. Henceforth, violence will be directed against one and all, in the service of an abstract idea.

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