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In 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, writing in The Communist Manifesto, declared: "In bourgeois society . . . the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past."13 This view is shared by contemporary statists, including the current occupants of the White House. On May 14, 2008, the future First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, while campaigning for her husband, Barack Obama, proclaimed: "We ..
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In 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, writing in The Communist Manifesto, declared: "In bourgeois society . . . the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past."13 This view is shared by contemporary statists, including the current occupants of the White House. On May 14, 2008, the future First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, while campaigning for her husband, Barack Obama, proclaimed: "We ..
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Therefore, while the revolution was undeniably a transforming event, it was not about the "fundamental transformation" of American civil society itself, as President Barack Obama would proclaim about his own election. Moreover, its purpose and principles were the antithesis of and incompatible with the philosophies that undergird the modern Progressive Movement, such as those espoused by German philosophers Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and..
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