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> > But that is all daydreaming. We really are not learing anything about
> > our present tasks from debating what should have been done inm 1860 or
> > 1865. We need to strive to understand history to grasp as fully as
> > possible how history works and how it doesn't work. We con't need to
> > understand history in order to learn lessons from it. There are no
> > lessons to learn. That is why criticism of the past is almost always
> > ahistorical and at best futile.
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> Philip K. Dick, not Perry Anderson.
Now Wait for the Last Revolution? I'm having trouble coming up with a good one for Man in the High Castle . . .