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This is the partially examined life preview to episode 269, part 2, Hannah Arendt

talking about totalitarianism.

As you might expect in this part 2, we do try to hook up what Arendt says to today's

politics, but that's not what you're going to hear now.

As Arendt herself has some very vivid and interesting things to say about totalitarian

logic.

Take a listen.

There's that section where she gives a nice example of what this sort of thinking means,

where you accuse someone of a crime, crime against the state at the party or whatever.

It doesn't matter whether they've actually committed the crime because what matters is that

there's a history of struggle between classes and that means that certain crimes are due

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