It is helpful to clarify the situation by terming this particular socio-political abomination of promoting borderlessness, Wokeism, Islamism, no proper security but persecution for citizens of states hosting mass illegal migrants, and two-tier policing as a form of the ‘Far Left’. Continue reading Marco Rubio: Time for civilization to fight the darkness
A borderless world where societies have no limits turn out to be ones in which boundaries are not only blurred but eradicated: between the reasonable and unreasonable, justice and injustice, spirituality and an ideology of violence and mayhem. Continue reading Vance: “Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies.”
This is the way the West ends, not with a bang but the whimpering death of Reason: and the catastrophe that ensues. In this context, the American and Israeli conflict with Iran is symptomatic of the imbroglio in the West over its identity and destiny. Continue reading Losing the West: the brutalisation of Reason
The word ‘atonement’ is one that ‘unites’ and ‘brings together’, connoting ‘At-One-Ment’ with the Divine. The term ‘attunement’ is a ‘bringing into harmony’, ‘adjusting to the same frequency’, ‘bring into sympathy’ with the Divine. Continue reading Atonement: sacrifice as At-One-Ment with the Divine
Krasznahorkai is his own man and has a distinctive voice. His dense demanding work requires careful attention, patience, a love for the written word and language. The willingness to be dragged into apocalyptic visions, teeter at the edge of the abyss and even plunge into it. Continue reading The infinite abyss: László Krasznahorkai
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This Ragnarök finale that ISIS is hung up on is in effect exemplary in its utilitarian approach of the ends justifies the means thinking that underlies the rationality of its Apocalypse. Continue reading ISIS and the instrumental rationality of its Apocalypse
by Mark Manolopoulos Could we, today, imagine Nietzsche submitting a journal paper or a manuscript? Could we imagine his work being accepted? Of course not. Why not? What does the impossibility of imagining such a scenario say about the contemporary … Continue reading Revolutionary philosophy and philosophers: a plea and a program
by Roland Boer Communism has ‘failed’, or so the common observation goes. More often, one hears the opinion that the Soviet Union ‘failed’, or that the communist countries of Eastern Europe did so as well. But what does ‘failure’ mean … Continue reading The ‘Failure’ of Communism: a ‘Fall’ narrative
by Roland Boer The reputation of Friedrich Engels has often not fared well in the Marxist tradition. At a minimal level, he is regarded as the lesser intellect in relation to Marx, while more commonly dismissed as one who seriously distorted Marx’s thought and thereby derailed the subsequent socialist tradition. According to this assumption, not only did he make a mess of his editing work, after Marx’s death, with the second and third volumes of Capital, but he also distorted the later tradition by means of his ‘Dialectics of Nature’ and his very popular ;Anti-Dühring’ and ‘Socialism: Utopian and Scientific’. … Continue reading In defence of Engels
by Roland Boer Lenin’s writings on religion may be divided into two categories: those that explicitly deal with religion and those that do so implicitly. In this article, I focus on the former. Too often, Lenin is understood as a doctrinaire atheist who has no time for religion. Yet, detailed attention to his statements on religion reveals a more ambivalent and complex position. I deal with four elements: (1) the duality of religion as both response to and cause of suffering; (2) the metaphors of opium and booze; (3) the question of freedom of conscience in relation to religion and … Continue reading Lenin and Religion
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