"Fiume O Morte " Brilliantly Dramatizes the Rise of a Demagogue

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• dkjaudyeqooe 17 hours ago

  Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it.

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  • blacksmith_tb 17 hours ago

    I prefer Marx's version, that "history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce"[1]

    1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_Lou...

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    • dullcrisp 16 hours ago

      Too real.

  • sdsd 17 hours ago

    And those who think they know history are condemned to repeat that phrase.

    /s I agree with the proverb, just being cheeky

• norir 15 hours ago

  Book 8 of Plato's Republic is also on point in describing the transition from democracy to tyranny.

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  • popalchemist 5 hours ago

    Can you summarize or point to a summary you might know of?

• sherdil2022 20 hours ago

  https://archive.ph/c5fSm

• stefantalpalaru 16 hours ago

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