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Hunter S. Thompson once wrote, somewhat presciently, that “the line between martyrdom and stupidity depends on a certain kind of tension in the body politic”. Similarly, as the mystic theologian Meister Eckhart implied, even the most devoted followers of an ideology can easily pervert their own belief. Charlie Kirk, with his Turning Point USA movement now martyrised and headed by his widowed wife, seems to occupy both of the ideological positions described by Thompson and theology: a faithful martyr and a perverse dogmatist...
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[1] The Bernsteinians were a German-born anti-Marxist socialist movement, which advocated for a path to socialism not by a confrontation with the capitalist framework of parliamentary politics, but rather by a social democratic revisionism within the confines of the existing parliamentary system.
Author Biography
Rafael Holmberg is a philosopher and writer. His work covers politics, German and French philosophy, film, literature, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. He writes for various journals, magazines, and newspapers, and is the author of Antagonisms of the Everyday on Substack.