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Titre Pour une critique de la catégorie de totalitarisme
Auteur Domenico Losurdo
Mir@bel Revue Actuel Marx
Numéro no 35, mars 2004 L'espace du capitalisme
Rubrique / Thématique
Totalitarisme et impérialisme
Page 115-147
Résumé anglais The Case for a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism. In this article Domenico Losurdo sketches a history of the category of totalitarianism, rehearsing the various shifts it has been subject to since the October revolution. While the roots of the notion are to be located both in the violence inflected by the colonial enterprise upon indigenous populations and the violence exercised at the very heart of the capitalist metropolis, upon the poor and the outcast, such violence did take on a number of unprecedented characteristics in the twentieth century phenomenon of total war. The imperatives of the cold war were subsequently to lead western liberals to the formulation of a strange indictment of the revolutionary
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