Kevin Rudd
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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This is a safe space for turgidity.
They know what to expect.
This is seriously turgid.
And I've had to read this stuff.
And I wouldn't recommend it to any of you unless you're suffering from deep insomnia.
And I can give you the relevant chapters of my book, which will send you off to sleep.
But historical materialism is the parallel discipline, which asks Marxist historians this question, where are we in this current historical moment and the evolution of this inexorable struggle between progressive and reactionary forces, between working class and the capitalist class, between working class nation states and capitalist nation states?
in producing this final resolution through struggle of an evolution towards a socialist and communist society.
And where they say through historical materialism China has reached is that they are now moving out of what they call the primitive stage or the primary stage of socialism into something higher than that.
And that the role of the Chinese Communist Party under Xi's leadership is to further accelerate that change.
And applied to the nation state, not just China's society and economic experiment domestically,
When they talk about changes not seen in 100 years, a favorite phrase of Xi Jinping.
When they talk about the rise of the East and the decline of the West, these are all euphemisms for an historically materialist view.
that China's time has come in this inexorable process of dialectical change to emerge on top.
So the reason I say all that is that it may sound like gobbledygook to you and me, and I don't really subscribe to any of it, but we would be wrong to conclude that this is not
the analytical mechanism used in the central organs of the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, to understand where China is today and where the rest of the world is today.
That is a fair summary.
Remember this, shall we say, teleological trajectory of which you spoke just before.
has not historically been unique to Marxism-Leninism.
There's been Judeo-Christian variants of this at various times in history moving towards an ultimate telos, which is the realization of the kingdom of heaven on earth, etc.,
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