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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

A hexbear or lemmygrad user could better explain this one, but its a deep-cut satirical comment on how nations that market themselves as "free" (but aren't), promote philosophies that group and demonize all their enemies into a single camp, and prop up writers like Arendt, who was one of the main ideological peddlers of western moral supremacy during the cold war.

Losurdo has a lot of good articles on this and Arendt specificaly, and also Gabriel Rockhill has some good articles about this too.

https://ia801609.us.archive.org/0/items/pdfy-dfBD-isycOcvHvqS/Domenico%20Losurdo%20--%20Towards%20a%20Critique%20of%20the%20Category%20of%20Totalitarianism.pdf

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ahhh, thank you. I'll give that link a read

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No probs! I also recorded that one recently as an audiobook here. torrent link is also there.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Im subbed to your youtube lol, thanks for the think though

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