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61) Power Dynamics: Authoritarianism, Regimes, and Human Rights: Analyzing Authoritarian Regimes, Conso
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In a world marked by power struggles, the rise of authoritarian regimes has become a pressing global concern. Dive into the intricate web of political dominance, suppression of dissent, and the far-reaching implications for human rights and civil liberties in "Power Dynamics: Authoritarianism, Regimes, and Human Rights." This thought-provoking book offers a comprehensive analysis of some of the most influential authoritarian regimes of our time, including...
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"What makes Trump immune is that he is not a president within the context of a healthy Republican government. He is a cult leader of a movement that has taken over a political party – and he specifically campaigned on a platform of one-man rule. This fact permeates "Can It Happen Here? . . . which concludes, if you read between the lines, that "it" already has." – New York Times Book Review
From New York Times bestselling author Cass R. Sunstein,...
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We failed to see the destructive, horrible machines buried below the surface of American life.In present-day America, citizens are on the brink of a Civil War. Donald Trump's invasion, as if from another galaxy, has thrown all systems out of whack. The United States is on a collision course with everything the American Dream promised. Trumpism has inserted systems alien to the norms of a free society. Personal freedom as most knew it is all but wiped...
64) Anti-Postone
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Around the turn of the century, anti-fascism in Germany underwent a transformation. Instead of denouncing the prevailing social order as the natural breeding ground of fascist movements, the focus of the critique shifted onto regressive, unenlightened, or "abridged" forms of anti-capitalism. Asserting that capitalism is "abstract rule," it set out to accuse its various adversaries of easily sliding into antisemitism, construed by anti-fascists as...
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Who makes the Fash is, a compelling analysis of the relationships between art and fascism. Originating from the desire of conceptualizing an antifascist artistic practice, this book investigates fascism in Italy and its relationships with futurism and neoliberalism. When seen in a historical context, the aesthetic appeal of the 'new', glamorous fascism is unmasked as a media-sponsored strategy of smoke and mirrors, functional to the preservation of...
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Uncovers the mindset and motives that drive far-right extremists
More than half a century after the defeat of Nazism and fascism, the far right is again challenging the liberal order of Western democracies. Radical movements are feeding on anxiety about immigration, globalization and the refugee crisis, giving rise to new waves of nationalism and surges of white supremacism. A curious mixture of Aristocratic paganism, anti-Semitic demonology, Eastern...
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As a teenager in a working-class English town, Jack Buckby found himself at the center of the biggest nationalist movement in modern British history. Looking for a political group that championed working people concerned about mass immigration, he stumbled into a world of anti-Semitism, racist paranoia, and extreme-right violence and terrorism. Through those experiences, Jack explains how both the left and the right fundamentally misunderstand what...
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Written in the tradition of historians like Stacy Schiff and Amanda Foreman who find modern lessons in ancient history, this provocative narrative explores the lives of five remarkable pharaohs who ruled Egypt with absolute power, shining a new light on the country's 3,000-year empire and its meaning today.
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In 2019, award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald writes in this gripping new book, "a series of events commenced that once again placed me at the heart of a sustained and explosive journalistic controversy."
New reporting by Greenwald and his team of Brazilian journalists brought to light stunning information about grave corruption, deceit, and wrongdoing by the most powerful political actors in Brazil, his home since 2005.
These stories, based...
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This early work by G. K. Chesterton was originally published in 1915. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He studied at the Slade School of Art, and upon graduating began to work as a freelance journalist. Over the course of his life, his literary output was incredibly diverse and highly prolific, ranging from philosophy and ontology to art criticism and detective fiction. However, he is probably best-remembered for his Christian...
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One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in...
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Although the United States has prioritized its fight against militant groups for two decades, the transnational jihadist movement has proved surprisingly resilient and adaptable. Many analysts and practitioners have underestimated these militant organizations, viewing them as unsophisticated or unchanging despite the ongoing evolution of their tactics and strategies.
In “Enemies Near and Far”, two internationally recognized experts use newly...
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Les dérives de la Modernité démocratique.
Le blog politique d'Alain Soral est l'un des plus visités de France : ce constat dérange et interroge. D'une part, Soral exècre le système démocratique, fustige la « république maçonnique », fait commerce de l'antisémitisme et entretient l'imaginaire conspirationniste. Mais d'autre part, les principes qu'il invoque sont ceux de notre Modernité démocratique : liberté d'expression contre «...
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Anyone wishing to understand the nature of evil can do no better than look within the pages of this book. When Hitler's 'thousand-year Reich' collapsed after twelve years of increasing repression, how were those responsible to be punished? Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels took their own lives to evade justice, but that still left Hermann Goering, Albert Speer, Hitler's one-time Deputy Fu¨hrer Rudolf Hess and many other prominent Nazis to be brought before...
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Reveals for the first time Heinrich Himmler's master plan for Europe: an SS empire that would have no place for either the Nazi Party or Adolf Hitler. His astonishingly ambitious plan depended on the recruitment of tens of thousands of 'Germanic' peoples to build an 'SS Europa'. Himmler fervently believed that over many centuries, 'Germanic' blood had been 'seeded' in every corner of Europe and even parts of Asia. This book, researched in archives...
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During the interwar period, Japanese intellectuals, writers, activists, and politicians, although conscious of the many points of intersection between their politics and those of Mussolini, were ambivalent about the comparability of Imperial Japan and Fascist Italy.
In The Fascist Effect, Reto Hofmann uncovers the ideological links that tied Japan to Italy, drawing on extensive materials from Japanese and Italian archives to shed light on the formation...
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For the last century, the Western world has regarded Turkey as a pivotal case of the 'clash of civilisations' between Islam and the West. Why Turkey is Authoritarian offers a radical challenge to this conventional narrative. Halil Karaveli highlights the danger in viewing events in Turkey as a war between a 'westernising' state and the popular masses defending their culture and religion, arguing instead for a class analysis that is largely ignored...
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En la memoria histórica de los procesos sociales, el origen se asocia a una ruptura que implica el surgimiento de una nueva fuerza, relacionado a un pasado heroico de lucha. Esto fue vivido por el peronismo: los trabajadores constituyeron esta fuerza regeneradora y Perón fue su intérprete. También los análisis opositores le asignaron el lugar central a los nuevos trabajadores, si bien los consideraba la base de una experiencia emparentada con...
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Erich Fromm's bestselling 1941 debut, about freedom and authoritarianism, is as relevant today as when it was first published The pursuit of freedom has indelibly marked Western culture since Renaissance humanism and Protestantism began the fight for individualism and self-determination. This freedom, however, can make people feel unmoored, and is often accompanied by feelings of isolation, fear, and the loss of self, all leading to a desire for authoritarianism,...
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This complete summary of "Conservatives Without Conscience" by John Dean, former White House Counsel for President Nixon, presents his argument that radical elements are destroying the foundations of American democracy and that the current right-wing authoritarian thinking could lead to a version of American fascism.
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