The Dialectics of Space

By: Douglas Murphy

Fred Scharmen’s history of space exploration stresses both its capitalist realities and its utopian dreams.

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It is a bit of a joke in the high-speed flippancy of the modern left to split the movement into two camps: you’re either pro- or anti- space. Anti-space leftists argue that the human journeys out of the atmosphere in the last seventy years have been little more than militaristic displays, high-technology spectacles searching for — […]

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It is a bit of a joke in the high-speed flippancy of the modern left to split the movement into two camps: you’re either pro- or anti- space. Anti-space leftists argue that the human journeys out of the atmosphere in the last seventy years have been little more than militaristic displays, high-technology spectacles searching for — […]

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It is a bit of a joke in the high-speed flippancy of the modern left to split the movement into two camps: you’re either pro- or anti- space. Anti-space leftists argue that the human journeys out of the atmosphere in the last seventy years have been little more than militaristic displays, high-technology spectacles searching for — […]

It is a bit of a joke in the high-speed flippancy of the modern left to split the movement into two camps: you’re either pro- or anti- space. Anti-space leftists argue that the human journeys out of the atmosphere in the last seventy years have been little more than militaristic displays, high-technology spectacles searching for — […]

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