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Risk and Extortion XCVI: The Ambivalence of the Post-Apocalypse
Human Rights, especially Universal Human Rights, express an aspiration, deeply rooted in enlightenment thinking, that expressing an ideal that any reasonable being would unconditionally support, can actually be realized as… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XCV: A critique of the Risk Society Thesis
Ulrich Beck’s seminal work Risk Society has dominated the field of risk studies within the social sciences for decades. Its main thesis can be simplified as follows: due to the… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XCIV: Fascism as a brain disease
The Encephalopathic Condition of Fascist Culture It is well known, that for right extremist movements such as MAGA, Antifascism – better known as AntiFa poses a huge problem. This is… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XCIII: Sachsen-Anhalt as the Litmus Test of Anti-Semitism
At the end of November 2023 the Sachsen-Anhalt Ministry of the Interior appended a Hinweis (an administrative instruction/notice) to its existing Einbürgerungs-Erlass (naturalization directive) that asks the local authorities to… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XCII: Frankfurter Controversies
On the 25th of September, the police were called to the campus of the University of Frankfurt to deal with a small group of protesters, who had entered a main… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XCI: Corporatism as a sociological concept
Corporatism as a political ideology, closely associated with fascism, is a widely discussed phenomenon. It is often treated as a relic from the past, especially in relation to Italy in… Read more.
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