These are difficult, perilous, and frustrating times. Many cherished beliefs are coming unraveled. Many once-shared values are no longer shared. And distrust of unshakeable institutions is widespread. Yet it was only a little more than three decades ago that North America and European intellectuals joined in acknowledging the triumph of the Western world’s “gift” to […]
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We have reached a point of madness where Left-wingers in the West now seem to support groups, however barbaric, to signal their contempt for our civilisation, says Professor Doug Stokes in the Mail.
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In the modern lexicon of supporters of the liberal ideology, the word “democracy” means a certain positive phenomenon, to the triumph of which humanity must certainly strive in all spheres of public life. They declared despotism, authoritarianism, dictatorship, totalitarianism and other similar negative things as the antipodes of this phenomenon. Many politicians in Western countries […]
Is there one human nature or do different cultures create their own versions of human nature? Are contemporary geopolitical conflicts to an extent manifestations of what has been called a “clash of civilizations?”
Francis Fukuyama, Alexander Dugin and Ivan Krastev engage in a 90 minute conversation about democracy, liberalism, human nature and what is happening in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Source : Strategic Culture, Alastair Crooke, 15-02-2019
Alastair Crooke| 15.02.2019
« Le dernier lancer de dés de l’establishment » : Que deviendra l’Europe ?
Former US President Barack Obama admitted that the neoliberal capitalist policies he and his predecessors supported fostered the rise of…
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Many of the same people lament the state of a broad, however amorphous western society that has succumbed to the trends of hyper-identity politics, political and economic sectarianism, brutal financial capitalism and the death of industry and censorship in societies that still preach the self-righteous yet vague cause of ‘freedom’.
In 1992, Francis Fukuyama published a book called The End of History and The Last Man. Fukuyama’s premise was that having ‘won’ the Cold War, American style liberal democracy and capitalism would be the perpetual and constant force guiding the world forever more. Alternative styles of geo-politics, government and economics were a thing of the past; a kind of erroneous trial process that had at long last reached the ‘correct’ conclusion.
What is Fascism? Recently Chris Hedges wrote of an imperialist US that is infected by “the virus of fascism, wrapped in the American flag, held aloft by the Christian cross and buttressed by white supremacy.” Hedges was not using the term fascism as it would be used by a political theorist or historian. It is common to use “fascism” to indicate a more general and imprecise fascistic tendency.
By Patrick Foy | CounterPunch | June 30, 2014 On Wednesday, June 25th, the Financial Times published an essay by Francis Fukuyama. He is the famed US political scientist, a “neoconservative” apostate and author of The End of History and the Last Man in 1992. The title of his op-ed is “ISIS risks distracting US from more menacing […]
