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Remembering Tito Pulsinelli

From Umanità Nova, March 24, 2023

On March 1st, at the age of 74, Tito Pulsinelli passed away. Together with other comrades he was imprisoned and tried on false evidence for the bombs of April 25, '69 at the Milan Fairgrounds, those which were the dress rehearsal for the strategy of tension that culminated in the state massacre in Piazza Fontana on December 12, 1969. After 2 years they were all acquitted. At the trial, in fact, the frameup orchestrated by Commissioner Calabresi collapsed and, in the meantime, the real perpetrators of the attacks (the fascists Freda and Ventura) had been unmasked.

Sartre's Anarchist Philosophy

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Is Existentialism closer to Anarchism than Marxism?

Every philosopher must run the gauntlet of time. Philosophical ideas fall in and out of favor, but the acid test is whether we continue to debate a philosopher’s ideas long after they have left the scene. The anniversary of Jean-Paul Sartre’s birthday, almost forty years since his death, is an appropriate moment to look back on the legacy of a philosopher whose work helped to define an era, and whose ideas continue to resonate with the political climate today. Professor Richard Falk places Sartre alongside Noam Chomsky and Edward Said as one of the few individuals worthy of the title ‘public intellectual’. Yet towards the end of his life, even as Sartre moved further in the direction of political engagement, he lamented that his politics were not radical enough; perhaps that is why Sartre’s political philosophy is so highly disputed.

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