War And Revolution by Domenico Losurdo
Rethinking the Twentieth Century
This book offers a revisionist account of twentieth-century conflicts, arguing that wars and social revolutions must be read together rather than treated as separate phenomena; it critiques dominant Western narratives that reduce revolutionary projects to totalitarian pathology while downplaying the violence of imperialism and colonialism. Through close readings of key episodes and figures, the author challenges simplified moral equivalences between capitalist democracies and communist states, highlights the formative role of imperialist wars in provoking radical social responses, and defends the need to judge revolutionary experiences in their historical context rather than by abstract liberal norms. The result is a provocative rethinking of how war, revolution, ideology, and power interacted across the century and a call to reassess both the crimes and the emancipatory aims connected to revolutionary movements.
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- 2015
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- Italian
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- Italian
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