Summary
Enrique Dussel: Philosophy of Liberation
"After the end of the Cold War, it was thought that 'permanent peace' was possible, but, on the contrary, the madness of the 'will to power' of the US empire, led by Christian and Jewish fundamentalists ... dragged us into the most dramatic situation so far. These extremist political positions are a 'trigger' for Islamic fundamentalism, and one must not lose sight of the fact that many of these fundamentalists were also organized militarily trained by the CIA in order to deal with the Soviet Union. ... In short, this work should be read as an announcement of many disasters that could have been avoided, but which, unfortunately, have continued to happen until today. If the path is not changed soon, all this will lead to the destruction of humanity and life on Earth, an extreme phenomenon that is already announced through the enormous increase in poverty in the South (as well as through the problem of unemployment in the North), which encourages us to continue the tradition of liberation philosophy as a radical critical thinking. from the point of view of the otherness of many oppressed and excluded persons: women, non-white races, old people and children, marginals and immigrants, workers and peasants, natives and unrecognized cultures, peripheral countries of transnational globalized capitalism, future generations that will live on a destroyed Earth... And many Others and many Others are silenced and invisible, beyond the view of beings from the West, the white man, the chauvinist, the bourgeois, who rules the world at the beginning of the XXI century." Enrique Dussel
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