Sobre la tiranía

Veinte lecciones que aprender del siglo XX

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print book, 150 pages

Spanish language

Published 2017 by Galaxia Gutenberg.

ISBN:
978-84-16734-97-9
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OCLC Number:
1013975890

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La historia no se repite, pero sí alecciona. Tanto el nazismo como el comunismo fueron reacciones a la globalización: a las desigualdades reales o imaginadas que creaba, y a la aparente impotencia de las democracias para afrontarlas. Eran movimientos en los que un líder o un partido decían dar voz al pueblo, prometían protegerlo de las amenazas globales existentes y rechazaban la razón en favor del mito. La historia europea nos muestra que las sociedades pueden quebrarse, las democracias pueden caer, la ética puede venirse abajo y la gente corriente puede encontrarse en situaciones inimaginables. Hoy en día nos resultaría muy útil comprender por qué.

La historia puede familiarizar y puede servir de advertencia. No somos más sabios que los europeos que vieron cómo la democracia se rendía ante el autoritarismo durante el siglo XX. Pero cuando el orden político parece amenazado, nuestra ventaja es que podemos aprender de su …

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reviewed On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

Useful book with some flaws.

Does not properly distinguish power from authority, i.e. "A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do. Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy."

Historical details were glossed over in the prologue which might misinform some readers.

The Yale experiment on fascism is presented to imply that by human nature we are naturally quick to harm one another, in some twister Hobbesian assumption - rather than a product of the limited sample size in a small study under specific economic, political, and societal conditions of the USA.

Otherwise, there are many great ways to defend against and confront Tyranny that are applicable primary to the USA, and secondarily to other western democracies.

reviewed On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

Well worth a read.

This is a small book, but it has a LOT of information packed into it. I took my time reading through it because the topics are obviously on the heavier side and I wanted to give myself time to process what I was reading.

Snyder does a fantastic job at drawing the parallels between Nazism and Communism and what is occurring in America at this time. As an American, I felt that this is a very important book. You always hear references to the president pulling from Hitler's playbook, but you don't get much information other than that. This puts a lot of it into perspective. Chillingly, though, this was written in 2017, and seeing everything playing out the same way with more force is frankly terrifying.

This book is not just gloom and doom, though. Snyder talks about his different points, gives you some detail so you understand what …