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François Mauld d’Aymée, in tracing the tragic arc of Eugene Onegin, unveils a requiem for the old world, where the modern man — proud, idle, and self-destructive — advances like an elegant executioner, laying waste to the fragile beauty of a vanishing order.
Antonio Gramsci is one of the greatest thinkers that Italy (and the world) has ever seen come to life. A thinker who could be called by dozens of additional titles, such as politician, philosopher and writer.
Live streaming with the Austrian historian and journalist Alexander Markovics.
On November 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on the partition of Palestine into an Arab and Jewish state (Israel). On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was proclaimed in the former territory of Mandate Palestine. The next day, seven Arab states (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Transjordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen) attacked the new country, thus starting the first Arab-Israeli war.
These words would have been engraved on the Pillars of Hercules that is, on the extreme limit of the world, impassable and forbidden to all mortals. Impossible to face the Ocean. According to the ancients, venturing westward would have meant being swept away by violent storms, as Dante thought had happened to Odysseus.
The capitalist system in its twilight stage, like every terminal stage of a cycle, is characterized by maximum virulence. The exploitation of labor power by industrial capitalism, with the enslavement of workers enslaved to machines, followed by financial capitalism with the concentration of economic power in the hands of a few speculators evolves into surveillance capitalism.
On September 5, 2022, the Russian president signed Decree No. 611 “On the Approval of the Concept of the Humanitarian Policy of the Russian Federation Abroad” which came into effect the same day. This concept is of considerable interest, as it logically continues a series of strategies (on foreign policy and national security) adopted recently.
If only we could take it out on someone. If we could believe we were serving something or going somewhere. But what did they leave us with? A happy tomorrow? The great European market? We have nothing.
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