Domenico Losurdo e Remo Bodei a Riccione sabato 8 febbraio: l'attualità di Marx

Su L'Humanité una recensione a "Le langage de l'empire"

L'Humanité, giov 39 gennaio 2014

L'edizione finlandese della "Controstoria del liberalismo"

Avaa painokelpoinen kuva» Losurdo Domenico Liberalismin musta kirja Kirja: 26.00 € Lisää ostoskoriin» ISBN: 978-952-264-192-2 Kategoria: Into-tieto Ilmestyminen: 08/2013 Sivumäärä: 370 Sidosasu: nid. Suomentaja: Pauliina de Anna Alkuperäisteoksen nimi: Controstoria del liberalismo ovh: 28.00 €

Losurdo Domenico Liberalismin musta kirja "Liberalististen väitteiden upea paljastus tarkastelee yli kolmea vuosisataa ja hallitsee lähteet mestarillisesti." – Financial Times "USA:n itsenäisyysjulistuksessa puhuttiin kaikkien ihmisten tasa-arvosta. Sen kirjoittajalla Thomas Jeffersonilla oli kuitenkin itsellään orjia. Vallalla on ollut siis jonkinsorttinen hyssyttely." – Tuomas Enbuske, Voima-lehti Liberalismin musta kirja kuvaa liberalismin aatehistoriaa 1700-luvulta 1900-luvulle. Italialainen filosofi ja kirjailija Domenico Losurdo väittää, että filosofisena ja ideologisena suuntauksena liberalismin nimissä on syyllistytty mitä suvaitsemattomimpaan politiikkaan: orjuuteen, kolonialismiin, kansanmurhaan,  rasismiin ja snobismiin. Losurdo tutkii kirjassa johtavien liberalististen kirjailijoiden kuten Locken, Burken, Tocquevillen, Constantin, Benthamin ja Sieyèsin ajatuksia. Hän paljastaa liberalismin sisäiset ristiriidat ja lukemattomat tavat, joilla liberalistinen aatesuuntaus yhä vaikuttaa. Domenico Losurdo on italialainen Urbinon yliopiston filosofian professori. Hänen kirjojaan on käännetty englanniksi, saksaksi, ranskaksi, espanjaksi, portugaliksi ja mandariiniksi.

Esce l'edizione paperback di "Liberalism. A Counter-history"

Liberalism: A Counter-History

by Domenico Losurdo Translated by Gregory Elliott

One of Europe's leading intellectual historians deconstructs liberalism's dark side.

In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialism, genocide, racism and snobbery.

Narrating an intellectual history running from the eighteenth through to the twentieth centuries, Losurdo examines the thought of preeminent liberal writers such as Locke, Burke, Tocqueville, Constant, Bentham, and Sieyès, revealing the inner contradictions of an intellectual position that has exercised a formative influence on today’s politics. Among the dominant strains of liberalism, he discerns the counter-currents of more radical positions, lost in the constitution of the modern world order.

Reviews

• “A brilliant exercise in unmasking liberal pretensions, surveying over three centuries with magisterial command of the sources.”
  – Financial Times
• “Liberalism: A Counter-History by Domenico Losurdo stimulatingly uncovers the contradictions of an ideology that is much too self-righteously invoked.”
  – Pankaj Mishra, Guardian
• “The book is a historically grounded, very accessible critique of liberalism, complementing a growing literature critical of liberalism.”
  – CHOICE
• “Liberalism is far too serious to be left in the hands of the liberals.”
  – Il Giornale
• “There is always something to learn from books by Domenico Losurdo. And [this book] is no exception, for the outstanding knowledge of modern and contemporary political thought, the rigorous philology and the pursuit of sources that have been forgotten or expunged.”
  – Il Corriere della Sera
• “Vast historical research recommended for the depth of the ‘excavation’ and for the wealth of new material that emerges.”
  – Il Sole 24 Ore
• “The latest, original work by Domenico Losurdo, a philosopher-historian of great lucidity, author of always innovative books … travels through and analyzes the dark, deep and often malodorous side of liberalism.”
  – La Stampa
• “Losurdo is almost unbelievably well-read”
  – Jacobin
• “Losurdo chronicles the ways in which the leading theorists of liberalism aided and abetted the building up of a ‘master-race democracy’ in the antebellum United States and, afterwards, a world-wide ‘war’ waged by the northern European empires of liberty against one another and for the colonial subjection of the rest of the world.”
  – The University Bookman
• “Liberals might be inclined to disregard Losurdo’s work as bombastic and hyperbolic, but they would be exercising poor judgment to do so. This is not revisionist history, but history told from the point of view of those who are making it.”
  – Chris Byron, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books
• “Losurdo's point is not the standard Marxian one; that is, the bitter irony of 'free labour' is that it is not so free. His point is rather more straightforward: from its inception, liberalism has been about asserting the liberty and equality of the 'community of the free', over and against those excluded from that community.”
  – Geoff Mann, Antipode

Marxismo occidentale e marxismo orientale: un articolo su "Junge Welt"

 

Unglückselige Spaltung
»Westlicher Marxismus« und »östlicher Marxismus«Von Domenico Losurdo "Junge Welt" 16.01.2014 / Thema / Seite 10

Welches sind die entscheidenden Gründe, die im Westen und im Osten zum Anschluß an die kommunistische Bewegung führten, die als Folge der Oktoberrevolution Gestalt anzunehmen begann? Die beiden Wege weisen merkliche Unterschiede auf. (…) In Italien und in Europa wuchs die Empörung über (…) den Ersten Weltkrieg. Es war diese Empörung, die der entstehenden kommunistischen Bewegung Zulauf verschaffte. (…)

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Daniel Zamora ripercorre il lavoro di Domenico Losurdo

LE PORTRAIT
Domenico Losurdo, Pour une contre-histoire du libéralisme

Par Daniel Zamora*
La Revue des Livres, Numéro 6|6/11/12

*Daniel Zamora est chercheur en sociologie à l’Université libre de Bruxelles. Ses recherches portent sur la pauvreté, la justice sociale et le marxisme.

Il testo, del 2012, è ora disponibile on line [SGA].

Domenico Losurdo est aujourd’hui l’un des philosophes italiens les plus importants dans son pays. Encore méconnu auprès du public fran cophone, son travail commence cependant à faire l’objet d’un intérêt croissant. Cet intérêt tient notamment au fait que ses livres ne sont pas sim plement des livres d’histoire ou de philosophie. Dans la majorité de ses travaux, Losurdo mélange de manière originale philosophie, histoire des idées, histoire économique, histoire politique et histoire sociale. Ce mélange permet à l’auteur de rompre avec des travaux historiques souvent anec dotiques ou, pour reprendre la formule de Marx, établissant tout au plus « une collection de faits sans vie1 ».
Cette approche lui a permis d’aborder d’une manière toujours innovante et stimulante les questions les plus importantes de notre époque (libéralisme, nazisme, colonialisme, socialisme…)...

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«Xi: Tenere alta per sempre la bandiera di Mao»

Xinhua, December 26, 2013
 

Xi: Holding high banner of Mao 'forever'

President Xi delivers a speech during a symposium commemorating the 120th anniversary of the birth of the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong in on Thursday, 26 December, 2013 in Beijing. Xi Jinping said that the Communist Party of China (CPC) will hold high the banner of Mao Zedong Thought "forever" in pursuing the Chinese nation's rejuvenation. [Photo: Xinhua]

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that the Communist Party of China (CPC) will hold high the banner of Mao Zedong Thought "forever" in pursuing the Chinese nation's rejuvenation.

While commemorating the 120th anniversary of the birth of the late Chinese leader, Xi hailed Mao and other members of the older generation of revolutionaries as "great figures" in fighting national and class oppression, as well as standing at the wavefront of the positive tide in the Chinese nation and world.

At a symposium held by the CPC Central Committee in Beijing, Xi said Mao, the principal founder of the CPC, the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the People's Republic of China (PRC), was "a great proletarian revolutionary, strategist and theorist."

Xi also hailed Mao as "a great patriot and national hero" and the core of the first generation of the Chinese leadership.

"Mao is a great figure who changed the face of the nation and led the Chinese people to a new destiny," said Xi, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission.

He pointed out that a correct historical view must be adopted to appraise a historical figure.

"Revolutionary leaders are not gods, but human beings," Xi said.

"(We) cannot worship them like gods or refuse to allow people to point out and correct their errors just because they are great; neither can we totally repudiate them and erase their historical feats just because they made mistakes," Xi said.

"(We) should not simply attribute the success in historical favorable circumstances to individuals, nor should we blame individuals for setbacks in adverse situation," he said.

"(We) cannot use today's conditions and level of development and understanding to judge our predecessors, nor can we expect the predecessors to have done things that only the successors can do," he said.

Mao's greatest contributions are that he led the Party and the people to find the correct path of New-Democratic Revolution, completed the anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism tasks, established the PRC and the basic socialism system, achieved fundamental success in socialist construction, and pooled experiences and created conditions for China's exploration of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, according to Xi.

"The banner of Mao Zedong Thought could not be lost and losing it means a negation to the Party's glorious history; The principle of holding high the banner of Mao Zedong Thought should not be wavered at any time and we will hold high the banner to advance forever," the president quoted late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping as saying.

However, Xi said it cannot be negated that Mao took detours during the exploration of the path of building socialism, admitting he made "serious mistakes" in his later years, especially during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).

"Comrade Mao Zedong's mistakes in his later years have their subjective factors and personal responsibility, and complicated social and historical reasons both at home and abroad also played their part. They should be viewed and analyzed comprehensively, historically and dialectically," Xi said.

Xi said it was not easy to find a correct path. "The path decides the nation's destiny," he said.

"Socialism with Chinese characteristics does not just fall from the sky," Xi said, adding that it was achieved through the toil and sacrifice of the Party and the people.

Without the pros and cons of historical experience learned from practical exploration before reform and opening up, processes would not have proceeded so smoothly, Xi continued.

Under the new conditions, Party members should adhere to and make good use of the "living soul" of Mao Zedong Thought, namely seeking truth from facts, the "mass line" and independence, Xi said.

The CPC in June initiated a one-year campaign to strengthen the "mass line," a guideline under which the CPC is required to prioritize the interests of the people.

When interpreting the doctrine of "seeking truth from facts," Xi called on Party officials to soberly realize and correctly grasp the fact that China remains in the primary stage of socialism and will long remain so, uphold truth and correct errors for the interests of the people, and advance theoretical innovation based on practice.

The "mass line" is the lifeline and fundamental work principle of the Party, Xi added.

To implement the "mass line," Xi said it is important to adhere to the fact that people are the fundamental force to decide the Party's future and fate and called on Party members to serve the people wholeheartedly.

Xi asked officials to cherish the power entrusted by the people and subject power to the people's supervision.

The president underlined the importance of maintaining the "flesh and blood ties" between the Party and the people. Xi pledged to "make the greatest effort" to address problems of the Party, especially those that arouse people's complaints.

The people will be the "supreme arbiter" and "final judge" to assess the Party's work, he said.

The country will rely on its own strength for state and national development, maintain national pride and national self-confidence, and unswervingly walk a path of its own, he said.

The Chinese people will make the decision and handle affairs of the country. China will unswervingly step along the path of a socialism with Chinese characteristics and firmly follow the path of peaceful development and adhere to the independent foreign policy of peace, Xi said.

Since modern times, the Chinese nation has always been dreaming of realizing "great rejuvenation." Our predecessors made great efforts for making the dream come true. Today, based on their achievements, China's reform and opening-up drive and modernization have scored significant marks.

"China has never been so close to realizing the goal of the nation's great renewal," Xi said.

"To realize the great rejuvenation of Chinese nation, we must unswervingly advance reform and opening-up," he said, stressing that the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee launched wide-ranging reforms.

The CPC plays a key role in realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, Xi said, adding that the Party should administrate the Party, enhance its ruling capacity and strengthen the Party's capabilities, such as self-purification and self-improvement.

Xi vowed to "seriously treat 'illnesses' which harm the nature and purity of the Party and rip out any 'malignant tumors' on the healthy bodies of the CPC."

Persistent effort will enable the CPC to always be at the core of leadership for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, Xi stressed.

Thursday's symposium at the Great Hall of the People was presided over by Liu Yunshan and attended by other leaders including Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Wang Qishan and Zhang Gaoli.

Before the symposium, the seven top leaders visited Mao's mausoleum in Tian'anmen Square, making three bows toward Mao's seated statue and paying their respects to the remains of Mao.

Mao was born on Dec. 26, 1893 and died on Sept. 9, 1976.

«Se la scienza storica tratta un tema in modo troppo semplicistico, allora c’è proprio bisogno di un filosofo italiano»...

Sulla «Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung» del 20 dicembre lo scrittore tedesco Dietmar Dath ha raccomandato come strenna natalizia l'edizione tedesca di «Stalin. Storia e critica di una legenda nera»:

"Wenn die Geschichtswissenschaft einen Stoff zu simpel sortiert, dann muss eben ein italienischer Philosoph her".