“Over a hundred years ago, Hegel said that the simplest reflection will show the necessity of holding fast . . . the afflirmation that is contained in every negation, the future that is in the present. It is one of the signs of the advanced stage of human development that this is no longer a mere philosophical but a concrete question.”
C. L. R. James, “Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity“.”
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