“If you want to do something good for society,…to avoid all totalitarian threats…, we should all go to this experience of accepting that at some day everything will finish. …This pushes you to strengthen ethical activity.” https://t.co/rSSkWWN9r7 On #Melancholia & #vonTrier

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The task is not to build a coalition between the radical Left and the fascist Right, but to cut off the working-class oxygen supply to the alt-right by addressing their voters. The way to achieve this is…to do exactly what Sanders and Corbyn were doing

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communism is…the name…of the difficult task of breaking out of the confines of the market-and- state frame…: It’s just the simple thing that’s hard, so hard to do, as Brecht put it in his ‘In Praise of Communism’. …The problem/deadlock is its own solution

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Robespierre…expressed in a touching way the simple faith in the eternal Idea of freedom which persists through all defeats, without which, as was clear to him, a revolution ‘is just a noisy crime that destroys another crime’ https://t.co/B9VgClTUWm

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There can be a socialist anti-Semitism, there cannot be a communist one. …Communism is to be opposed to socialism, which, in place of the egalitarian collective, offers a solidary organic community. …Nazism was national socialism, not national communism

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Where I find Arendt problematic is in her notion that this was pure bureaucratic evil: that individuals behaved as anonymous bureaucrats - caught in a machine, doing their duty and so on. The implied link between Kantian…unconditional duty & the Nazi executors is..false.

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Banality of evil…means the people who performed these horrible acts…were..ordinary. …You will not arrive at the dimension of Nazi evil by doing…psychological analysis… It was anonymous objectivized evil. …That’s the positive aspect of Arendt’s thesis.

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