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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsQuote from Hannah Arendt. "The Origins of Totalitarianism", 1967
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As a Jew, Arendt chose to leave Nazi Germany in 1933, and lived in Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, and France before escaping to the United States in 1941 via Portugal. She became an American citizen in 1950, having been stripped of her German citizenship in 1937. Her works deal with the nature of power and the subjects of politics, direct democracy, authority, and totalitarianism. The Hannah Arendt Prize is named in her honor."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,678 posts)Her quote is so spot on! It's subtle as well. It's easy to get lost in all the parentheses......but I read it carefully, and there's no question that it's true.
Thank You!
orangecrush
(19,597 posts)I am planning on reading some of her work.
I believe it will give insight into Trumps tactics.
Mosby
(16,334 posts)Good read!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Chilling.
orangecrush
(19,597 posts)Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)Some aspects I really didnt agree with when I read it 20 years ago, but as time passes it seems more and more like she got things right I wasnt comprehending at that time.
orangecrush
(19,597 posts)It looks like I have reading to catch up on!
spanone
(135,857 posts)orangecrush
(19,597 posts)Volaris
(10,274 posts)Cause she saw right through his propagandistic bullshit.
A good lesson in the Age of Trump.