I agree with your description of Hegelian synthesis, but I think one thing you forgot to point out is that the hard-left is skipping the final "synthesis" step in all your examples. In fact their moral system remains just as dualistic as the old religion it replaced.

Take for example their favorite morality play: "Love vs Hate," which they installed in place of "Good vs Evil."

Sure, some things like traditional family values and teaching toddlers about sex toys got shuffled to the opposite side, but it's fundamentally the same structure. They just sort everything into love or hate, nothing "synthetic" about it.

On this topic I always go back to this uncannily prophetic scene from Donnie Darko (2001). It's such a bullseye, I can hardly believe it.

Obviously the analogy I'm making here is teacher as the looming blight of dualistic Libstianity and recalcitrant student as Hegel arguing for more nuanced (synthetic) reasoning.

The only slight miss was contraposing "Fear" instead of "Hate" against "Love." But then again, Libstians never miss an opportunity to label someone a "-phobe," so there certainly is still the projection of fear there.

Really great movie if you haven't seen it. It was edgy and leftist in its day, but I'm sure many would call it "far-right propaganda" now.

I agree with your description of Hegelian synthesis, but I think one thing you forgot to point out is that the hard-left is skipping the final "synthesis" step in all your examples. In fact their moral system remains just as dualistic as the old religion it replaced.

Take for example their favorite morality play: "Love vs Hate," which they installed in place of "Good vs Evil."

Sure, some things like traditional family values and teaching toddlers about sex toys got shuffled to the opposite side, but it's fundamentally the same structure. They just sort everything into love or hate, nothing "synthetic" about it.

On this topic I always go back to this uncannily prophetic scene from Donnie Darko (2001). It's such a bullseye, I can hardly believe it.

Obviously the analogy I'm making here is teacher as the looming blight of dualistic Libstianity and recalcitrant student as Hegel arguing for more nuanced (synthetic) reasoning.

The only slight miss was contraposing "Fear" instead of "Hate" against "Love." But then again, Libstians never miss an opportunity to label someone a "-phobe," so there certainly is still the projection of fear there.

Really great movie if you haven't seen it. It was edgy and leftist in its day, but I'm sure many would call it "far-right propaganda" now.