Boaventura de Sousa Santos

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The third world war, the BRICS+ and the salvation of the planet
11 January, by Boaventura de Sousa Santos

For a hundred years, Europe has been on the brink of war while healing the wounds of the previous war. Each time, the reasons are different, but they have in common the fact that, although they were born here, they take the world with them and thus become global. (...) Peace was to last. The peace that lasted was the one made possible by the Cold War and the many regional hot wars in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. What’s new now?
The terror of the terrorized
4 December 2023, by Boaventura de Sousa Santos

In Europe, the region of the world in which I find myself, within thirty years (between 1914-1945) there were two world wars which resulted in seventy-eight million deaths and at least one horrible genocide, the Armenian genocide; within eighty years there were two more horrible and well-known (…)
1932: and in seven years’ time?
15 November 2023, by Boaventura de Sousa Santos

"Without soul or memory, Europe is incapable of seeing the similarity between the images of death and destruction in the Warsaw ghetto during the desperate Jewish uprising of April 19, 1943, and the images we see of the Gaza Strip. Gaza is Europe here and now."
Gaza is Europe here and now
16 October 2023, by Boaventura de Sousa Santos

(...) Ultimately, this brutal policy is legitimized by what I have called the abyssal line, the line that has separated full-fledged human beings from those considered subhuman since the beginning of colonial expansion. It’s no coincidence that we hear Israeli officials refer to Palestinians as animals.
Europe in a state of denial
10 August 2023, by Boaventura de Sousa Santos

The European political class as a whole is in a state of denial. Polarization between ideologically different political parties tends to occur in an ever narrowing circle of political views and solutions. There is a clear difference between parties that defend rights and parties that attack rights (in the case of the far right), but is this enough to distinguish the left from the right? It will certainly not be enough to face the two great challenges that question to the limit both the relationship between humanity and nature and human coexistence.

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