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Feb 2025
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Red Hot Take: Dialectics at the Dawn of ...

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Breht discusses American Capitalism's Death Drive Accelerationism, how the only path that's left for capitalism is to return us to fuedalism "at a higher level", how dialactics plays out in this context, and why the purposeful cultivation of inner silence and stillness and love is more important than ever. 

outro music: 'Breathe' by Alexi Murdoch

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