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| - | There are many ways of speaking, and some of these are. similar enough to be mutually intelligible. | + | There are many ways of speaking, and some of these are similar enough to be mutually intelligible. |
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| ===== State and process ===== | ===== State and process ===== | ||
| - | Sahlins and Bashkow are examples of thinkers who seek to find the underlying unity and essence | + | Sahlins and Bashkow are examples of thinkers who seek to find the underlying unity and essence |
| * The idea of Orokaiva is more real than the diverse manifestations of Orokaiva in the material world. | * The idea of Orokaiva is more real than the diverse manifestations of Orokaiva in the material world. | ||
| - | * Contemporary Orokaiva is different from the Orokaiva of the past, but we can still find a abstract system or logic at the level of ideas. | + | * Contemporary Orokaiva is different from the Orokaiva of the past, but we can still find an abstract system or logic at the level of ideas which is constant over time. |
| Wolf can be read as offering several alternatives. | Wolf can be read as offering several alternatives. | ||
| * One possibility is that Wolf seeks order as well, but not in the form of culture as abstract system of thought. He might instead argue for a fundamental unity of global capitalism that appears in different versions in different places and times. In this view global capitalism “grind[s] the human fabric into the featureless uniformity of selenic erosion” (Polanyi 1947, 115). | * One possibility is that Wolf seeks order as well, but not in the form of culture as abstract system of thought. He might instead argue for a fundamental unity of global capitalism that appears in different versions in different places and times. In this view global capitalism “grind[s] the human fabric into the featureless uniformity of selenic erosion” (Polanyi 1947, 115). | ||
| - | * Another possibility is that Wolf has no view of an underlying order, and that he really thinks that history is random chance, chaos and disorder. (This seems unlikely though.) | + | * Another possibility is that Wolf has no view of an underlying order, and that he really thinks that history is random chance, chaos, and disorder. (This seems unlikely though.) |
| History can appear as though it has no direction, but I would argue that in historical processes we see **flux** and the **possibility** of new developments, | History can appear as though it has no direction, but I would argue that in historical processes we see **flux** and the **possibility** of new developments, | ||
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| * If the servant kills the lord, then their self-concept as a free person now depends on killing other people. | * If the servant kills the lord, then their self-concept as a free person now depends on killing other people. | ||
| * The struggle for recognition between two people ultimately can and will resolve itself when the contadiction is **sublated**, | * The struggle for recognition between two people ultimately can and will resolve itself when the contadiction is **sublated**, | ||
| - | * A new kind of self-conscious | + | * A new kind of self-consciousness |
| ===== Colonialism as dialectic ===== | ===== Colonialism as dialectic ===== | ||
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