Domenico Losurdo
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"Taking up what Arendt stated in her 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism, Domenico Losurdo argued that the 20th century's true original sin was the colonial empire of the late 19th century, where totalitarianism and the internments manifested for the first time. Losurdo was a strong critic of the equation between Nazism and communism made by scholars like François Furet and Ernst Nolte, but also by Hannah Arendt and Karl Popper. Likewise, Losurdo criticised the concept of a Red Holocaust." --Sholem Stein |
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Domenico Losurdo (14 November 1941 – 28 June 2018) was an Italian Marxist philosopher better known for his critique of anti-communism, colonialism, imperialism, the European tradition of liberalism and the concept of totalitarianism. For the latter, he has been criticised for relativising Joseph Stalin's rule and Stalinism, being often characterised as a neo-Stalinist as a result.
