Effective opposition requires first understanding the adversary’s actual project

Evidence

This book preaches a simple message: Know Your Enemy before you start daydreaming of a better world. In this one particular respect, Carl Schmitt was right. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 901

Categorization

• XREF: The Schmitt invocation connects to debates on the political/the friend-enemy distinction the reader may know from political theory. — connects to: Understanding an enemy is a precondition of fighting it; Oppositional thinking interrogates the assumptions behind authoritative questions; The adversary system works by having opposing sides produce and challenge evidence — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 802

Broader Connections

• Understanding an enemy is a precondition of fighting it #corroborates (0.95)
• Oppositional thinking interrogates the assumptions behind authoritative questions #expands (0.75)