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Rachael Corrie. Crushed to death defending Palestinians in 2003. Compare and contrast with below.

🚨Three Flemish universities jointly award an honorary doctorate—for the first time—to Italian jurist @FranceskAlbs , recognizing her work on human rights and international justice. The ceremony in Antwerp drew over 1,000 attendees.

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@TariqAli_News That a leading figure of "Western Marxism " failed to support Palestinian self-defence is an appalling failure.

Habermas is dead. I remember his clash with Rudi Dutschke at Berlin Vietnam Congress in February 1968. Condolences to his daughter Judith who worked at Verso for a while. Below a small extract from Perry Anderson's essay on the military philosophers in New Left Review: "Habermas grew up in a small Rhenish town under Hitler. His father joined the Nazi party in 1933, and Habermas himself briefly took part in defensive work with the Hitlerjugend at the end of the war. After discovering the realities of the Third Reich and breaking with Heidegger, who had been his first major influence, Habermas became the major philosophical descendant of the Frankfurt School, absorbing its distinctive transformations of Marx, and then in turn criticizing these in the light of American pragmatism and systems theory. Intellectually heir to the totalizing ambitions of German idealism, scarcely any major philosophical tradition has fallen outside the range of his interests, in which sociology—classical and contemporary—has also occupied a central place. As a political thinker, the pattern of Habermas’s writing reverses that of Rawls, whom he has criticized for his inappropriately substantive intentions. His own political theory is purely procedural, abstaining from any programmatic proposals. On the other hand, Habermas has never hesitated to intervene politically on topical issues, adopting public positions on leading disputes of the day in Germany, as a citizen of the left. His Kleine politische Schriften now run to nine volumes, rivalling the number of Sartre’s Situations. At the same time, he has never been involved in any political organization, keeping his distance from spd and Greens alike." newleftreview.org/issues/ii31/ar…

And it's precisely people like you - whose ideology is, unfortunately, that of the majority of European elites - who did immense, irreparable harm to Europe. It's now beyond painfully obvious that if Europe had at least applied basic common-sense precautionary principles and told itself that maybe, just maybe, it was insanely dangerous to bet the prosperity and security of 450 million Europeans on the assumption that the most aggressive, interventionist power in modern history would forever make an exception for Europe - we might still have some sovereignty left. This isn't an "extreme left" vs others thing (and the fact you think it is shows you still don't get it at all), it's just a logic vs dumb thing: how can you observe a country systematically destroying anyone who gets in its way over decades and conclude "yes, let's make ourselves entirely dependent on these people, what could possibly go wrong?" That's not liberal sophistication. That's the dumbest bet in the history of geopolitics.

@dougvalentine77 One guy had so much power? Amazing. Why didn't some other person put it back on the streets again? You, for instance?

@TariqAli_News Perry Anderson helped take revolution off the streets and consign it to dusty corners of the ivory tower.

@rbromer Lihe most of the German elite: political and intellectual. Appalling.