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“Habrá una paz estable únicamente cuando seamos ciudadanos no solo de este o aquel Estado, sino del mundo.” —Norberto Bobbio

Y atención a la hipótesis final de Mandel en su libro: “si, para preservar su sociedad capitalista monopolista, el gran capital de EE. UU. decide ceder el poder político a hombres absolutamente irracionales, será un golpe fatal para la humanidad”. Esperemos que no sea profética.

“Pero la probabilidad de aparición del peligro fascista es mucho mayor en EE. UU. que en Europa.” “La gran burguesía de EE. UU. dispone de una reserva de conservadurismo de extrema derecha que podría ofrecer mayores posibilidades de éxito a un aventurero fascista que en Europa.”

Ernest Mandel explica el fascismo como “un producto del capitalismo monopolista e imperialista” en crisis estructural.

“Plutocrats, whose power threatens to corrupt the republic, are back. Wealth and political power once more seem inseparable. Self-dealing is commonplace.”

‘If 19th-century plutocrats are dinosaurs, we’re now in Jurassic Park’ economist.com/by-invitation/…

“It is this moral radicalism of Marx which explains his influence; and that is a hopeful fact in itself. This moral radicalism is still alive. … Marxism’s feeling of social responsibility and its love for freedom must survive.”

“Marx showed that a social system can as such be unjust; that if the system is bad, then all the righteousness of the individuals who profit from it is a mere sham righteousness … For our responsibility extends to the system, to the institutions which we allow to persist.”

Marx and Marxism according to Karl Popper: “Marx’s burning protest against the crimes of unrestrained capitalism will secure him forever a place among the liberators of mankind.”

It's important to understand that before the U.S military seemingly blew up a girls elementary school in Iran killing dozens of children, the Trump administration got rid of a civilian protection program designed to avoid just this kind of incident. propublica.org/article/trump-…

Popper concludes: “The role of thought is to carry out revolutions by means of critical debates rather than by means of violence and of warfare. It is the great tradition of Western rationalism to fight our battles with words rather than with swords.”

“Democracy,” Popper notes, “is the only known device by which we can try to protect ourselves against the misuse of political power … And since political power can control economic power, political democracy is also the only means for the control of economic power by the ruled.”

‘The Open Society and Its Enemies’ has been described by The Economist as “the best intellectual defence of liberal democracy.” #LecturasMásDemo

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