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10.11.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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10.11.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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09.11.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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08.11.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Social Construction of Confusion How the West Lost Its Grip on Reality

πŸ“˜ Zombies di Marx is available on:
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06.07.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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04.05.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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05.05.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Old Woman of Syracuse and Islam The assertion that change is not necessarily positive expresses a banal truth.

The assertion that change is not necessarily positive expresses a banal truth. The concept of change is often confused with that of evolution and is associated with an improvement ...

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01.11.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Madman Theory In political theory, the β€œmadman theory” (Madman Theory) is a hypothesis about the strategic behavior to adopt in a coercive negotiation (Coercive Bargaining), that is, in a negotiation where the part...

In political theory, the β€œMadman Theory” is a hypothesis about the strategic behavior to adopt in a coercive bargaining...

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27.10.2025 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Madman Theory In political theory, the β€œmadman theory” (Madman Theory) is a hypothesis about the strategic behavior to adopt in a coercive negotiation (Coercive Bargaining), that is, in a negotiation where the part...

In political theory, the β€œMadman Theory” is a hypothesis about the strategic behavior to adopt in a coercive bargaining...

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27.10.2025 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fascism as a Disease of the Soul In recent years, there has been much talk about fascism.

What is fascism, then?
If I had to define it, I’d say it’s a disease of the soul.
When I use the word β€œfascism,” I refer to all those authoritarian drifts into ...

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19.07.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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Shadows of Propaganda Russell, Fascism, and the Paradox of Tolerance

The circulation of quotations on social media has always troubled me. More often than not, they consist of decontextualized sentences or paraphrases, employed with a degree of malice...
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30.08.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The only thing we must fear is fear itself
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10.09.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fear, Lies, and the Fragility of Tyranny Democracy is not weak.

Democracy is not weak. Its strength depends on the value that citizens place on their own freedom and on that of others ...

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04.09.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

The only thing we must fear is fear itself
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Hot, Horny, and No Longer Woke: How Hollywood Misunderstands Liberalism "Hollywood Is β€˜Hot, Horny and White’ Again" is the title of a recent short essay by Sharon Waxman in The New York Times. She argues that Hollywood is undergoing a paradigm shift, abandoning β€œthe socia...

"Hollywood Is β€˜Hot, Horny and White’ Again" is the title of a recent short essay by Sharon Waxman in The New York Times. She argues that Hollywood is undergoing a paradigm shift ...

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13.08.2025 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fear, Lies, and the Fragility of Tyranny Democracy is not weak.

Democracy is not weak. Its strength depends on the value that citizens place on their own freedom and on that of others ...

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04.09.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Shadows of Propaganda Russell, Fascism, and the Paradox of Tolerance

The circulation of quotations on social media has always troubled me. More often than not, they consist of decontextualized sentences or paraphrases, employed with a degree of malice...
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30.08.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The world is full of good people who do terrible things "The world is full of good people who do terrible things"β€”this is something my mother often tells us, a phrase she borrowed from Hercule Poirot.

The world is full of good people who do terrible things
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πŸ“˜ Zombies di Marx is available on:
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02.06.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Risk of Getting Too Big for Your Britches So you don’t get too big for your britches

In July 1834, during his journey through the Northeast, Davy Crockett delivered a lengthy speech to the citizens of Cincinnati, openly reproaching President Jackson

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05.08.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Hot, Horny, and No Longer Woke: How Hollywood Misunderstands Liberalism "Hollywood Is β€˜Hot, Horny and White’ Again" is the title of a recent short essay by Sharon Waxman in The New York Times. She argues that Hollywood is undergoing a paradigm shift, abandoning β€œthe socia...

"Hollywood Is β€˜Hot, Horny and White’ Again" is the title of a recent short essay by Sharon Waxman in The New York Times. She argues that Hollywood is undergoing a paradigm shift ...

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13.08.2025 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Risk of Getting Too Big for Your Britches So you don’t get too big for your britches

In July 1834, during his journey through the Northeast, Davy Crockett delivered a lengthy speech to the citizens of Cincinnati, openly reproaching President Jackson

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05.08.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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CHAPTER 4) MAGIC FORMULAS Social Justice reproduces the paradigm of deconstruction across various contexts, seeking out β€œsocial constructs” that conceal mechanisms of oppression. Its β€œmodus operandi” is relatively straightforw...

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26.07.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

in fact, I didn’t have any problems at all.

25.07.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The text also presupposes a specific soul. I thought your question was just imprecise, but it was simply out of context.

24.07.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry. So soul is the reason why you ask yourself things β€” but what is soul?

24.07.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the soul is the reason why you ask the question: what is the soul?

24.07.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Both concentrate power in the hands of a few while promising a lost paradise on earth.

20.07.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why two sides of the same coin? They are the same side. They are the same sickness of the soul. You can call it communism, if you like, or fascism, or fanaticism. They all stem from the unwavering belief that one knows how the world should beβ€”and that there is only one possible way to live.

20.07.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fascism as a Disease of the Soul In recent years, there has been much talk about fascism.

What is fascism, then?
If I had to define it, I’d say it’s a disease of the soul.
When I use the word β€œfascism,” I refer to all those authoritarian drifts into ...

#booksky #academicsky #writingcommunity #authorsky #reading #philsci #bookshop

dborrellidb.substack.com/p/fascism-as...

19.07.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

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