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Tommaso di Maria's avatar

The content of the ideology matters as to what the ideologists will/plan to do in-reality, but ultimately - if I am correct - ideology's content is arbitrary. We have seen how it sheds/accretes "content" overnight and w/o regard for consistency (i.e. reality). It is a product of the imagination, rather than of reality. Voegelin called it a "gnostic dream-world."

The amount of recycled National Socialism within Bourgeois Radicalism demonstrates this point.

This leads to the only proper solutions - defeating it in-reality, or waiting for reality to defeat it, later.

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Michael Magoon's avatar

Yes, I believe these ideologies are just intellectual rationalizations of underlying non-rational psychological impulses. The ideas may change, but the underlying psychological impulses remain the same.

I go into more detail on this here:

https://frompovertytoprogress.substack.com/p/understanding-the-left

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