Non-Violence by Domenico Losurdo6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In this vigorous riposte to those who would denigrate the history of emancipatory struggle, Losurdo captivates the reader with a tour de force account of modern revolt, providing a new perspective on the English, American, French and twentieth-century revolutions. Their true motives have little to do with the quest for a greater understanding of the past, but lie in the climate of the present day and the ideological needs of the political classes, as is most clearly seen now in the work of the Anglophone imperial revivalists Paul Johnson and Niall Ferguson. Non-Violence por Domenico Losurdo - 9781498502191 Usamos cookies para ofrecerte la mejor experiencia posible. The intention of these revisionists is to eradicate the revolutionary tradition. Non-Violence por Domenico Losurdo, 9781498502191, disponible en Book Depository con envío gratis. It’s a revisionist tendency discernible in the work of authors such as Ernst Nolte, who traces the impetus behind the Holocaust to the excesses of the Russian Revolution or François Furet, who links the Stalinist purges to an “illness” originating with the French Revolution. War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians, one that’s grown increasingly apparent in recent years. ![]()
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