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The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism: Carl Schmitt
Every realm of human endeavor is structured by an irreducible duality. Morality is concerned with good and evil, aesthetics with the beautiful and ugly, and economics with the profitable and unprofitable. In politics, the core distinction is between friend and enemy. That is what makes politics different from everything else.
-- According to Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political




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