totalitarianism – What The Future Now?

The Future is History

Posted on August 14, 2020August 21, 2020 by bronwynruthwilliams in Reading Right Now

"We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us." - A Soviet joke The Future is History by Masha Gessen is in someways the flip-side of Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism. While The Origins of Totalitarianism explains exactly that, how societies lose themselves to totalitarian ideology, The Future is History deals with the … Continue reading The Future is History →

The true believer

Posted on October 4, 2019October 7, 2019 by bronwynruthwilliams in history, Libertarianism, observations, Reading Right Now

Eric Hoffer was an American dock worker. An everyman. Not a rich man, not a man you would have noticed in the streets in the 1930s and 1940s. One of the nameless, voiceless masses we live and work with every day. But he was more than that. He was also a keen observer of human … Continue reading The true believer →