Roots and Wings with Frank Furedi

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  • 4 days ago | frankfuredi.substack.com | Frank Furedi

    I believe that openly communicating your views and telling it like it is essential for the functioning of democracy. That is why being able to call a spade a spade is integral to the flourishing of a culture of freedom. Unfortunately today sections of the legacy media and the Establishment that dominates the cultural institutions of western societies are wary of calling a spade a spade.

  • 1 week ago | frankfuredi.substack.com | Frank Furedi

    The old Bolshevik revolutionary, Leon Trotsky took the words out of my mouth when in 1939 he wrote that the ‘very concepts of “anti-fascism” and “anti-fascist” are fictions and lies[i]’. Elsewhere Trotsky stated that ‘ “Anti-fascism” is nothing, an empty concept used to cover up Stalinist skulduggery[ii]. Stalinist skulduggery is certainly in evidence in Brussels, the city that claims to be the anti-fascist capital of Europe.

  • 3 weeks ago | frankfuredi.substack.com | Frank Furedi

    Outwardly at least it seems that the unravelling of ideology of globalisation has been paralleled by the return of the nation-state. The unashamed declaration of MAGA in the United States highlights the shift in balance from a globalised and cosmopolitan conception of the world order to one where the pursuit of national interest is self-consciously pursued.

  • 1 month ago | frankfuredi.substack.com | Frank Furedi

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  • 1 month ago | frankfuredi.substack.com | Frank Furedi

    The election of Trump and the subsequent chain of events unleashed by his self-consciously driven disruptive actions indicate that there are no quick-fix solutions to the deep-seated structural problems facing the United States and other Western economies. Containing the corrosive effects of the market requires an orientation towards the long-term.