Leftist thinking, if the particular does not fit, riioting/looting, universalise it -' it is for a greater cause'
What is the robbery of a bank compared to
the founding of a new bank?,” asks Brecht. or the good old “property is theft” (that is,the
passage from the theft of some particular property to the notion that property
as such is already theft).
Similar reversals abound in the firstchapter of The Communist Manifesto:from prostitution as opposed to marriage to
the notion of (the bourgeois) marriage itself as a form of prostitution;and so
on. In all these cases,Marx applies Hegel’s in-sight (first articulated in the
Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spiritaccording to which,when the particular does
not fit its universal measure, one should change the measure itself:
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