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ABSOLUTE FREEDOM AND TERROR by Maxwell Clark “In this absolute freedom all social ranks or classes… are effaced and annulled…” –Hegel's Phenomenology Rather deep into Hegel’s Phenomenology there is a section entitled, “Absolute Freedom and Terror”. Although I cannot directly summarize Hegel’s insights in this section here, I will at least passionately suggest their reading or rereading. All that follows in this article is therefore of nowise equal value to Hegel’s monstrous virtuosity. The passage in question is its own best interpreter, in other words. I merely point up to my superior. What is so ingenious about Hegel's account of class-annulling and universal revolutionary subjectivity is his assured knowledge of its real limits. He is actually nowise utopian, in the sense that he speaks here: “For the universal [subject and will] to pass into a deed, it must gather itself into the single unity of individuality, and put an individual consciousness in the forefront; for univer...
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