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Conflict Theory
Jacobins

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J.J. Rousseau

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Social Contract

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.
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Jacobins

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J.J. Rousseau

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Discourse On Inequality

I venture to declare that a state of reflection is a state contrary to nature, and that a thinking man is a depraved animal.
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Jacobins

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J.J. Rousseau

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Discourse On Inequality

It is reason that engenders self-respect, and reflection that confirms it: it is reason which turns man's mind back upon itself, and divides him from everything that could disturb or afflict him. It is philosophy that isolates him, and bids him say, at sight of the misfortunes of others: “Perish if you will, I am secure.“ Nothing but such general evils as threaten the whole community can disturb the tranquil sleep of the philosopher, or tear him from his bed.
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Jacobins

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J.J. Rousseau

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Discourse On Inequality

It is still more cruel that, as every advance made by the human species removes it still farther from its primitive state, the more discoveries we make, the more we deprive ourselves of the means of making the most important of all. Thus it is, in one sense, by our very study of man, that the knowledge of him is put out of our power.
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Jacobins

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J.J. Rousseau

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Social Contract

All that destroys social unity is worthless; all institutions that set man in contradiction to himself are worthless.
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Marxists

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Karl Marx

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Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (...)

In fact, the proposition that man’s species-nature is estranged from him means that one man is estranged from the other, as each of them is from man’s essential nature.
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Marxists

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Karl Marx

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Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (...)

The estrangement of man, and in fact every relationship in which man [stands] to himself, is realized and expressed only in the relationship in which a man stands to other men.
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Critical

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Theodor Adorno

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Negative Dialectics

Traditional philosophy has be witched what is heterogenous to it through the tailoring of its categories.
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Critical

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Theodor Adorno

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Negative Dialectics

By virtue of the division of the world, the law of division – what is authentic – is hidden.
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Postmodern

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Jean-Francois Lyotard

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The Postmodern Condition

In temporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society. Simplifying to the extreme, it is fair to say that in principle there have been, at least over the last half-century, two basic representational models for society: either society forms a functional whole, or it is divided in two. An illustration of the first model is suggested by Talcott Parsons (at least the post-war Parsons) and his school, and of the second, by the Marxist current (all of its component schools, whatever differences they may have, accept both the principle of class (...)
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Postmodern

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Jean-Francois Lyotard

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The Postmodern Condition

What is needed if we are to understand social relations in this manner, on whatever scale we choose, is not only a theory of communication, but a theory of games which accepts agonistics [conflict] as a founding principle.
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Feminism

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Simone De Beauvoir

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Second Sex

It is understandable that the duality of the sexes, like all duality, be expressed in conflict. It is understandable that if one of the two succeeded in imposing its superiority, it had to establish itself as absolute.
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Feminism

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Simone De Beauvoir

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Second Sex

Hegel is right to see the subjective element in the male while the female remains enclosed in the species. Subjectivity and separateness immediately mean conflict.
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Feminism

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Simone De Beauvoir

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Second Sex

To posit the Woman is to posit the absolute Other, without reciprocity, refusing, against experience, that she could be a subject, a peer.
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Feminism

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Audre Lorde

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Sister Outsider

Much of Western European history conditions us to see human differences in simplistic opposition to each other: dominant/subordinate, good/bad, up/down, superior/inferior. In a society where the good is defined in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, there must always be some group of people who, through systematized oppression, can be made to feel surplus, to occupy the place of the dehumanized inferior. Within this society, that group is made up of Black and Third World people, working-class people, older people, and women.
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Feminism

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bell hooks

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Ain't I A Woman?

As people of color, our struggle against racial imperialism should have taught us that wherever there exists a master/ slave relationship, an oppressed/oppressor relationship, violence, mutiny, and hatred will permeate all elements of life.
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Race (CRT)

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Robin DiAngelo

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Is Everyone Really Equal? (...)

For every social group, there is an opposite group. One cannot learn what a social group is, without also learning what the group is not.
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Race (CRT)

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Robin DiAngelo

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Is Everyone Really Equal? (...)

All major social group categories (such as gender) are organized into binary, either/or identities (e.g., men/women). These identities depend upon their dynamic relationship with one another, wherein each identity is defined by its opposite.
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Queer

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Julie C Garlen

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Interrogating innocence: “Childhood” as (...)

At a time when the morality of human enslavement could no longer be justified, the doctrine of childhood innocence also offered a sort of absolution by proxy for White Americans.
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Queer

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Julie C Garlen

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Interrogating innocence: “Childhood” as (...)

From the beginning, this new childhood ideal was classist, patriarchal, and the exclusive property of whiteness.
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Education

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Peter McLaren

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Critical Pedagogy And Predatory (...)

Furthermore, their [radical critics] critique has revealed that the application of rigorous standards is never innocent of social, economic, and institutional contexts. In this view, schooling must always be analyzed as a cultural and historical process in which select groups are positioned within asymmetrical relations of power.
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Education

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Alison Phipps & Liz (...)

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On (Not) Being The (...)

The university is the master’s house. The master’s tools include the tools of academia, which create and reflect the universalising claims of modernity, and the stable definitions that allow elites to gain hegemony over meaning.
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Jacobins

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J.J. Rousseau

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Discourse On Inequality

It is that we find our advantage in the misfortunes of our fellow-creatures, and that the loss of one man almost always constitutes the prosperity of another.
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Marxists

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Karl Marx

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A Contribution To The (...)

Civil society is the battlefield where everyone's individual private interest meets everyone else's.
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Critical

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Theodor Adorno

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Negative Dialectics

Society preserves itself not in spite of its antagonism but through it; the profit-motive, and thereby the class relationship, are objectively the motor of the process of production on which everyone’s life depends and whose primacy has its vanishing-point in the death of all.
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Critical

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Herbert Marcuse

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Eros And Civilisation

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of domination; they themselves become instruments of repression.
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Feminism

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Simone De Beauvoir

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Second Sex

Men always held woman’s lot in their hands; and they did not decide on it based on her interest; it is their own projects, fears, and needs that counted.
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Feminism

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Andrea Dworkin

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Intercourse

But the hatred of women is a source of sexual pleasure for men in its own right. Intercourse appears to be the expression of that contempt in pure form, in the form of a sexed hierarchy; it requires no passion or heart because it is power without invention articulating the arrogance of those who do the fucking. Intercourse is the pure, sterile, formal expression of men’s contempt for women; but that contempt can turn gothic and express itself in many sexual and sadistic practices that eschew intercourse per se.
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Race (CRT)

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Between The World And (...)

Perhaps there has been, at some point in history, some great power whose elevation was exempt from the violent exploitation of other human bodies. If there has been, I have yet to discover it.
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Race (CRT)

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Cheryl Harris

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Whiteness As Property

it is evident that the protection of the property interest in whiteness still lies at the core of judicial and popular reasoning.
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