If world history is essentially a process based on change, and change has cultural meaning which stems from a “cultural apparatus” to borrow from Mills, that cultural apparatus which prompts change and explains the cultural meaning of change is the intellectual class or the intelligentsia. To borrow from Mills: “Intellectuals are now living in a … Continue reading A Fraction of Mankind
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Second footnote to the post titled “Avant-garde”
For both Hegel and Marx, and despite Marx's voluntary split from Hegel, and even though Marx gave lots of deference and respect to Hegel, historical and social change was inevitable. There was no going around change. But for Hegel, historical and social change would occur on its own. Change would occur miraculously and naturally in … Continue reading Second footnote to the post titled “Avant-garde”
Footnote to the post titled “Avant-garde”
Everything tends towards a theory of history, as Mills argued. In turn, a theory of history has at the heart of it an idea or a thesis about historical and social change. What is at the heart of a theory of history is an idea about the main agents, causes, and drivers behind historical and social … Continue reading Footnote to the post titled “Avant-garde”
Strategies of a Cold War Order
But where does the liberal order fit into universal consciousness? This is perhaps the root question behind what we are dealing with or what we are trying to tackle conceptually and intellectually and philosophically and perhaps even ethically and practically and morally in terms of not only major power conflict at the moment, but also the basic … Continue reading Strategies of a Cold War Order
The Need for Doctrine
What we often overlook and forget, or what is now constantly overlooked and forgotten, is that through the entirety of the 20th century Cold War and even at this very moment, the global balance of power has long been in favor of Russia and China. America capitalized off of a single Russian mistake for just a … Continue reading The Need for Doctrine
Adam A. Azim 