Debates Who’s Winning? By Fabio Vighi [This article posted on 10/21/2024 is available on the Internet, https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/whos-winning/.] ‘The West has become a totalitarian space – the space of a self-defensive hegemony defending itself against its own weakness.’ (Jean Baudrillard) One of the most frequently referenced scenes in Arthur Penn’s Night …
Debates The Fascist Tendencies of Democracy By Rafael Holmberg [This article posted on 6/9/2025 is available on the Internet, https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-fascist-tendencies-of-democracy/.] “I know what you’re thinking, but it is NOT my mother!” This unprompted reflection by a patient led Freud to the perplexing insight not only that ‘mother’ occupied some unusually …
Trump’s Tariffs: Everything You Wanted to Know about Them but Were Afraid to Ask the Bond Market By Fabio Vighi [This article posted in May 2025 is available on the Internet, https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/trumps-tariffs-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-them-but-were-afraid-to-ask-the-bond-market/.] Everyone’s busy debating whether Donald Trump’s global tariff plan is economic protectionism, geopolitical strategy, electoral propaganda, or the …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/07/06/18877856.php Since the early 1990s, right-wing militias had been increasingly visible in public, especially after the 1995 right-wing terrorist attack in Oklahoma City. The Republican stablishment saw the radical right as a tool it believed it could control while opening the doors to power. As it turned out, the monster …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/07/05/18877844.php The protection of health, life, and climate protection are public welfare goals, and the referendum is admissible. The arguments are compelling: 29,000 people have died on Germany’s roads in the last ten years, and road safety and infrastructure cost society billions every year. The boom in SUVs and off-road …
A billionaire with a mass following Trump and the question of fascism in the US By Jan Rehmann [This article posted in July 2025 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/artikel/ein-milliardaer-mit-massenbasis/.] Anyone grappling with the question of whether or not the term fascism can be meaningfully applied today …
Why America is at War with Iran By Michael Monday, June 23, 2025 The Neocon logic for needing to defeat Iran and break it into ethnic parts Opponents of the war with Iran say that the war is not in American interests, seeing that Iran does not pose any …
Essay: False equality Everyone gets what they deserve? The principle of personal responsibility has always underpinned inequality. In the name of liberalism, coercion and violence can be ramped up at will – all the way to fascism. By Alex Struwe [This article posted on 6/5/2025 is translated from the German …
The superfluity of the state A state that no longer provides for the common good delegitimizes itself. Is a state necessary? Most people would answer “yes” to this question, if only because certain community tasks would otherwise be difficult to organize. But is this state necessary, which harasses people and …
The invention of evil Interpreting the world as a battle between light and darkness — and always placing oneself on the side of good — is a tool of power. Many lies are currently being exposed. What has long been hidden is coming to light. Most of the time, light …