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When Envy becomes political

Kenaz Filan
Sep 11, 2023
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Pride has had some recent successes as a tool for political organization. But it still has a long way to go before it catches up with Envy. While we might praise or blame the theories of Marx and Marat for sparking revolutions, Bertrand Russell (no mean theoretician himself) noted:

[T]here is no department of practical politics where idealistic theories …

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