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Leo
@lsn
It’s always interesting to see reasonable people who emerge to be wildly prophetic. Whenever I see such cases, I wonder if their other predictions were equally accurate or equally wild. But above all, I’m interested in the principles that Heine used to arrive at his conclusions. How would you make predictions about this next century? Heine’s approach is to look at centuries of the past.
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Leo
@lsn
It seems that those principles are based on the idea that new ideas (communism) are a repetition of existing concepts (absolutism) and thus can be analysed the same way, and we also encounter yet another god is dead figure, a very early one, who looked to the past to understand what aspects of life would repeat in a future with less common Christianity.
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Njal
@cryptonjal
You should place these predictions in the spirit of the times and ask yourself if the writer interpreted it with hindsight. Antisemitism is not an invention of WW2. Expected future anti-Semitism can be zeitgeist, but when it comes to communism it can be a combination of zeitgeist, the attractiveness of the story for workers and the solution it would bring. Seems to me at least a thinker with a helicopter view. By the way, rightly noted that there can be cherry picking when it comes to predictions, but if it is a biography about this person then these are of course nice facts. Don't know this man or his work, by the way.
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