@aufgehenderRest W's theory of language games is probably the most important thing about this work. It is foundational to what became postmodernism. Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition draws heavily on P.I., applying it to basically all social processes. W was also leftist which i find important.
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"I have heard that despotism is a factory that manufactures the anarchists who promote the overthrow of despotism...the deeper the despotism, the more numerous are the anarchists it produces."
-Ma Xulun, "The new ideology of the 20th century" (1903)