Stanhope on Freedom
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DECOMPOSITION: The process in which the traditional cultural forms have destroyed themselves as a result of superior means of dominating nature which enable and require superior cultural constructions. We can distinguish between an active phase of the decomposistion and effective demolition of the old superstructures--which came to an end around 1930--and a phase of repetition that has prevailed since then. The delay in the transition from decompostion to new constructions is linked to the delay in the revolutionary liquidation of capitalism.