Robbie Bruens’s Reviews > The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 > Status Update
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"Outside the Western Hemisphere, the fingers of two hands are enough to count the few states of the world that have not gone through some combination of revolution, civil war, resistance to and liberation from foreign occupation, or the prophylactic decolonization by empires doomed in an era of world revolution."
— Aug 26, 2024 07:58PM
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Robbie Bruens
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"...the ideologies, the programs even the methods and forms of organization which inspired the emancipation of dependent countries...were Western: liberal; socialist; communist and/or nationalist; secular and suspicious of cleric[s]; using the devices developed for....public life in bourgeois societies: press, public meetings...even when the discourse adopted was...in the religious vocabulary used by the masses."
— Sep 16, 2024 02:38AM
