• Vegafjord demcon@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    Regardless, we should be able to criticize societal structures from the past using present day analysis. If that is not possible, then that shows a fundamental weakness of our analysis.

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      Agreed. But modern ideologies didn’t exist back then so they shouldn’t be used to describe historical ways of thinking.