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"Reading about the minute details of how the Vietnamese struggle began with a few dozen people working underground and ended up as a meticulously organised fighting force is awe-inspiring
The transnational origins of the Vietnamese army - with so many of their officers trained under both the CPC and KMT - is fascinating, too" — Feb 18, 2026 05:33AM
"Reading about the minute details of how the Vietnamese struggle began with a few dozen people working underground and ended up as a meticulously organised fighting force is awe-inspiring
The transnational origins of the Vietnamese army - with so many of their officers trained under both the CPC and KMT - is fascinating, too" — Feb 18, 2026 05:33AM
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""Madhyabitta (middle-class), then, was aspiration rather than reality, but aspiration can also be crucially important In the making of historical processes. Nor, it must be added, was the anomaly all that unique. The Indian colonial middle class of literati, aspiring but generally failing to achieve a class status not their own- at times 'substituting' for the missing or dominant class- would have a number of..." — Jan 27, 2025 03:20PM
""Madhyabitta (middle-class), then, was aspiration rather than reality, but aspiration can also be crucially important In the making of historical processes. Nor, it must be added, was the anomaly all that unique. The Indian colonial middle class of literati, aspiring but generally failing to achieve a class status not their own- at times 'substituting' for the missing or dominant class- would have a number of..." — Jan 27, 2025 03:20PM
“Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.”
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“There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”
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“Enlightenment, understood in the widest sense as the advance of thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters. Yet the wholly enlightened earth is radiant with triumphant calamity.”
― Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
― Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.”
― Orientalism
― Orientalism
“Yet the past is ever with us and all that we are and that we have comes from the past. We are its products and we live immersed in it. Not to understand it and feel it as something living within us is not to understand the present. To combine it with the present and extend it to the future, to break from it where it cannot be so united, to make of all this the pulsating and vibrating material for thought and action—that is life.”
― The Discovery of India
― The Discovery of India
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