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Ideologies of the near future - by Sam Kriss

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We are in a gooey age, where all boundaries disappear

According to a popular misconception, the idea that politics is divided between a left and a right dates back to the early days of the French Revolution in 1789, when the supporters of the ancien régime sat on the right side of the Constituent Assembly, and the radicals and revolutionaries sat on the left. If you know anything at all about how humans have traditionally structured our world, you’ll know that this is bullshit. The left-right divide is older than the French Revolution, and also older than the monarchies of Europe. It stretches deep into our prehistory. It might be older than…

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