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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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subaltern

a fatalism by which the workers and their organizations had forged a ‘subaltern’ vision of the world for themselves

Gramsci on the 'econonism' of the Second and Third Internationals

—p.86 Time and Progress: Another Philosophy of History? (80) by Étienne Balibar
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progress is neither modernity nor liberalism

[...] for Marx, progress is neither modernity nor liberalism nor, even less, is it capitalism. Or, rather, ‘dialectically’, it is capitalism insofar as capitalism makes socialism inevitable and, conversely, socialism insofar as socialism resolves the contradictions of capitalism.

—p.84 Time and Progress: Another Philosophy of History? (80) by Étienne Balibar
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sublimation

In the ideological domain, all production is denied or is sublimated and becomes free ‘creation’.

—p.77 Ideology or Fetishism: Power and Subjection (42) by Étienne Balibar
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exegesis

On the Jewish Question of 1843, which contains the famous exegesis of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

—p.73 Ideology or Fetishism: Power and Subjection (42) by Étienne Balibar
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