Out of control: global turmoil on the eve of the twenty-first centuryAs we rush toward the 21st century, former Director of the National Security Council Brzezinski takes time out to issue an "urgent warning" about the current state of global politics. He believes we are in peril of repeating the "megadeath" of this century--a century that has witnessed the slaughter of 187 million people in the name of politics. |
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... then spawned its several twentieth-century offshoots: Leninism, Fascism, and
Hitlerism. The prophetic opening of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto — "a
specter is haunting Europe — the specter of communism" — within a century
applied to ...
... then spawned its several twentieth-century offshoots: Leninism, Fascism, and
Hitlerism. The prophetic opening of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto — "a
specter is haunting Europe — the specter of communism" — within a century
applied to ...
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Fascism is particularly effective in exploiting the irrational side of human nature,
appealing quite effectively to emotions that can be galvanized through
nationalistic symbols, exploiting the attraction of national power and glory, and
responding ...
Fascism is particularly effective in exploiting the irrational side of human nature,
appealing quite effectively to emotions that can be galvanized through
nationalistic symbols, exploiting the attraction of national power and glory, and
responding ...
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As a doctrine, fascism is much more primitive, but as an emotion, fascism is more
basic, elemental, and potent. A Russian variant of fascism is unlikely to go quite
as far as nazism, with its unique racial obsessions. Unlike communism or nazism
...
As a doctrine, fascism is much more primitive, but as an emotion, fascism is more
basic, elemental, and potent. A Russian variant of fascism is unlikely to go quite
as far as nazism, with its unique racial obsessions. Unlike communism or nazism
...
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The Centrality of Metamyth | 19 |
Coercive Utopia | 32 |
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Informații bibliografice
| Titlu | Out of control: global turmoil on the eve of the twenty-first century |
| Autor | Zbigniew Brzezinski |
| Editor | Collier Books, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0020081154, 9780020081159 |
| Lungime | 240 pagini |
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