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Davide Smith Borrelli
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Davide Smith Borrelli @smithborrelli.bsky.social · Mar 20
Zombies of Marx: The Return of Practical Reason"
– A Provocative Exploration of modern chaos!

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smithborrelli.bsky.social Davide Smith Borrelli @smithborrelli.bsky.social · Jul 19
What is fascism, then?
If I had to define it, I’d say it’s a disease of the soul.
When I use the word “fascism,” I refer to all those authoritarian drifts into ...

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Fascism as a Disease of the Soul
In recent years, there has been much talk about fascism.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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smithborrelli.bsky.social Davide Smith Borrelli @smithborrelli.bsky.social · Aug 5
In July 1834, during his journey through the Northeast, Davy Crockett delivered a lengthy speech to the citizens of Cincinnati, openly reproaching President Jackson

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The Risk of Getting Too Big for Your Britches
So you don’t get too big for your britches
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November 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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smithborrelli.bsky.social Davide Smith Borrelli @smithborrelli.bsky.social · 15d
The assertion that change is not necessarily positive expresses a banal truth. The concept of change is often confused with that of evolution and is associated with an improvement ...

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The Old Woman of Syracuse and Islam
The assertion that change is not necessarily positive expresses a banal truth.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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📘 Zombies di Marx is available on:
📱 Kindle: bit.ly/ZombiesOfMarx
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The Social Construction of Confusion
How the West Lost Its Grip on Reality
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July 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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📘 Zombies di Marx is available on:
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May 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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📱 Kindle: bit.ly/ZombiesOfMarx
Or you can ask for it at your local bookstore.

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May 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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The assertion that change is not necessarily positive expresses a banal truth. The concept of change is often confused with that of evolution and is associated with an improvement ...

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The Old Woman of Syracuse and Islam
The assertion that change is not necessarily positive expresses a banal truth.
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November 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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In political theory, the “Madman Theory” is a hypothesis about the strategic behavior to adopt in a coercive bargaining...

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Madman Theory
In political theory, the “madman theory” (Madman Theory) is a hypothesis about the strategic behavior to adopt in a coercive negotiation (Coercive Bargaining), that is, in a negotiation where the part...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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In political theory, the “Madman Theory” is a hypothesis about the strategic behavior to adopt in a coercive bargaining...

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Madman Theory
In political theory, the “madman theory” (Madman Theory) is a hypothesis about the strategic behavior to adopt in a coercive negotiation (Coercive Bargaining), that is, in a negotiation where the part...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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What is fascism, then?
If I had to define it, I’d say it’s a disease of the soul.
When I use the word “fascism,” I refer to all those authoritarian drifts into ...

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Fascism as a Disease of the Soul
In recent years, there has been much talk about fascism.
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July 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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The circulation of quotations on social media has always troubled me. More often than not, they consist of decontextualized sentences or paraphrases, employed with a degree of malice...
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Shadows of Propaganda
Russell, Fascism, and the Paradox of Tolerance
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August 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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The only thing we must fear is fear itself
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September 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Democracy is not weak. Its strength depends on the value that citizens place on their own freedom and on that of others ...

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Fear, Lies, and the Fragility of Tyranny
Democracy is not weak.
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September 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The only thing we must fear is fear itself
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"Hollywood Is ‘Hot, Horny and White’ Again" is the title of a recent short essay by Sharon Waxman in The New York Times. She argues that Hollywood is undergoing a paradigm shift ...

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Hot, Horny, and No Longer Woke: How Hollywood Misunderstands Liberalism
"Hollywood Is ‘Hot, Horny and White’ Again" is the title of a recent short essay by Sharon Waxman in The New York Times. She argues that Hollywood is undergoing a paradigm shift, abandoning “the socia...
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August 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Democracy is not weak. Its strength depends on the value that citizens place on their own freedom and on that of others ...

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Fear, Lies, and the Fragility of Tyranny
Democracy is not weak.
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September 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The circulation of quotations on social media has always troubled me. More often than not, they consist of decontextualized sentences or paraphrases, employed with a degree of malice...
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Shadows of Propaganda
Russell, Fascism, and the Paradox of Tolerance
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August 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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The world is full of good people who do terrible things
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📘 Zombies di Marx is available on:
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The world is full of good people who do terrible things
"The world is full of good people who do terrible things"—this is something my mother often tells us, a phrase she borrowed from Hercule Poirot.
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June 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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In July 1834, during his journey through the Northeast, Davy Crockett delivered a lengthy speech to the citizens of Cincinnati, openly reproaching President Jackson

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The Risk of Getting Too Big for Your Britches
So you don’t get too big for your britches
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August 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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"Hollywood Is ‘Hot, Horny and White’ Again" is the title of a recent short essay by Sharon Waxman in The New York Times. She argues that Hollywood is undergoing a paradigm shift ...

#booksky #academicsky #writingcommunity #authorsky #reading #philsci #bookshop

open.substack.com/pub/dborrell...
Hot, Horny, and No Longer Woke: How Hollywood Misunderstands Liberalism
"Hollywood Is ‘Hot, Horny and White’ Again" is the title of a recent short essay by Sharon Waxman in The New York Times. She argues that Hollywood is undergoing a paradigm shift, abandoning “the socia...
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August 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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In July 1834, during his journey through the Northeast, Davy Crockett delivered a lengthy speech to the citizens of Cincinnati, openly reproaching President Jackson

#booksky #academicsky #writingcommunity #authorsky #reading #philsci #bookshop

open.substack.com/pub/dborrell...
The Risk of Getting Too Big for Your Britches
So you don’t get too big for your britches
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August 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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CHAPTER 4) MAGIC FORMULAS
Social Justice reproduces the paradigm of deconstruction across various contexts, seeking out “social constructs” that conceal mechanisms of oppression. Its “modus operandi” is relatively straightforw...
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