2897816 Large-scale violence, uprooting & destruc-
Q&@
TION ALSO HAD ACCOMPANIED THE FIRST PHASE
OF AN UNPRECEDENTED HUMAN EXPERIMENT
IN EUROPE AND AMERICA!
AS MARX AND ENGELS WROTE
IN THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO (184
, MORE IN EXCITEMENT
THAN SORROW, THE MODERN EPOCH, REVOLUTIONIZED BY AN UNFETTERED WORLD MARKET, IS ONE
IN WHICH 'all fixed, fast-frozen relations, are swept away... All that is solid melts into air,
all that is holy is profaned!'
The 19th century's most sensitive minds,
from Kierkegaard to Ruskin, recoiled from such modernization, though they
did not always acknowledge its darker side: rapacious colonialism and savage wars in Asia & Africa, the institutionalization
of prejudices like anti-Semitism, and the widespread terror, aggravated by pseudo-science,
of what Theodore Roosevelt called
'RACE SUICIDE'!
In the late 19th century,
European & Japanese ruling classes
began to respond to the damage & disruptions of the world market
by exhorting unity in the face of internal & external threats, creating new fables of ethnic & religious solidarity, and deploying
militaristic nationalism in what they claimed wàs a struggle for existence. In the first half of the 20th century
it wasn't just Nazis & Fascists who embraced, while frenziedly modernizing, the theories
of Social Darwinism! Support for them extended across
Europe & America, and among
the educated and aspiring
classes of Turkey,
India &
China!
Asih, man, 81 jaar
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27 jan 2016
jr118b deze myDinadruk o/h parabolisch karakter ~~
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27 jan 2016
jr117b 'de myDi~verkondiging(en) van Yehosjoea' ~~
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27 jan 2016
Één v/d meest archetypische symbolen v/h middel-
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26 jan 2016
Je kunt alleen over jezelf lezen & over niets ~~~~
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26 jan 2016
Niet wie weinig heeft, maar wie veel wil is arm!!!
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26 jan 2016
jr116b hier moet dus wèl steeds bíjgezegd worden ~
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26 jan 2016
jr115cd bovendien, & dàt ìs nòg véél belangrijker,
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25 jan 2016
jr115b 'r zijn nòg mensen die hieraan argumenten
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25 jan 2016
jr114b 't gaat er om de vooronderstelling, dat het
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25 jan 2016
jr114 't beste voorbeeld v/d oude denktrant was al
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25 jan 2016
jr113 we kunnen bijna, vrijwel ongewijzigd, hier ~
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25 jan 2016
jr112VI het nieuwe ethos: (r)evoluties i/d ethiek
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24 jan 2016
jr111c er ÌS, ìn íeder gevàl, nog maar heel weinig
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24 jan 2016
jr111b èn tòch, al zou iemand maar ÈRGENS, ook
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24 jan 2016
jr111 overgrootouders in Victor- & Wilhelminiaanse
vorige
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