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In the 18th century the European weltgeist ushered in capitalist storm, ... like so many others, including Hegel and Marx, Francisco de Miranda and his co-fighters were fascinated by the bourgeois, democratic revolution, by the French Revolution, that is why his name is engraved in the "Arc de Triomphe" ... now the world spirit ominously spells doom, is writing on the human wall of woe: "socialism or barbarism".
Venezuela ... under such circumstances today Marx would say: I am NOT a revolutionary! 2008
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And Whitman immerses the past, present and future into the transcendental; that is, his notion of World-Soul, or weltgeist.
From Whitman to Wilde: A Cultural Perspective on Individualism at the Fin de Si�cle 2007
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'secretary' of the triumphant bourgeois revolutionary 'weltgeist', as described in his classic: "A Tale of Two Cities".
OpEdNews - Diary: Venezuela: The Principle of Hope Against Global United States Military Bases 2009
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'practical reason' and Hegel's weltgeist (world spirit) ushered in bourgeois enlightenment.
OpEdNews - Diary: Venezuela: The Principle of Hope Against Global United States Military Bases 2009
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