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In this essay, I juxtapose the eschatological hopes and ideological certainties of contemporary communists with those of the auth-right, arguing that while their soteriologies differ in content, one seeking liberation through collective struggle and the abolition of capitalist structures, the other seeking a return to ethnonationalist and religious traditionalism, they are united by a shared pattern of epistemic closure, mythologized history, and utopian thinking that resists falsification. 1/69
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