The word political...

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It suddenly struck me how the word political, in circles I frequent, is so often used to mean progressive, egalitarian, anti-authoritarian, etc. Of course this is only one side of the equation. Fascism is equally "political", the Christian right are also very much political, etc. This one-sided use of the term, a kind of common-usage Freudian slip, which I myself am frequently guilty of, somehow relates to the absolutely intractable nature of the situation. An inability to naturally, and therefore usefully, reflect from both sides.



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