Avainsana: far right
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Nazism and otherness – the shadows of Nazism over the world
Klaus Härö’s film Ei koskaan yksin (2025), about Abraham Stiller, who saved Jews during the war, is very touching and the ending in particular brings tears to the eyes. The film is reminiscent of Schindler’s List in many ways. Abraham Stiller is a great hero who prevented the extradition of all Finnish Jews to Germany,…
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MAGA poison threatens a world based on cooperation, solidarity and rules
The Global North or the so-called The West has long led the world. Initially, this leadership was a colonialist and capitalist extractivism that sought to control natural resources and economic hegemony. The Second World War is a milestone and a watershed, after which the world sought to build international cooperation and a rule-based world order.…
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Popper, ”paradox of tolerance”, Hitler, Trump and the modern far-right
The Austrian-British philosopher Karl Popper wrote in his book ”Open society and its enemies” in 1945 about the ”paradox of tolerance” and warns of the danger of fascism and its bystanders. The paradox goes roughly like this: If tolerant people tolerate and accept intolerance, it follows that intolerant people like fascists and Nazis will take…
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Democracy and freedom under threat in Finland and globally
Most people in the world are not free. Liberal democracy is the result of a long development, which was influenced by e.g. the philosophy and ideals of ancient Greece, the Reformation and the Enlightenment of the 18th century. However, it is a rare treat. Only 1/4 of the world’s countries are democracies and at the…
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Russia’s ravening bear and China’s dragon created the rise of the extreme right in the West – The global democratic North must stand together or the risk is the destruction of the current world
Russia and China created the extreme right with the money from oil, gas and industries. Their geopolitical aim is to stop the unification and cooperation of the world. The worst thing that can happen to world is the re-election of Trump. The rise of the extreme right is one of the most significant global trends…
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The Dark history of fundamentalism from the murder of Hypatia to the present
On 22 October 1988, at the Paris premiere of Martin Scorsese’s film The Last Temptation of Christ, ”Christian” fundamentalists attacked the cinema with firebombs. 13 were injured, one fatally. The fundamentalists’ reason for the attack was a scene in the movie where Jesus feels a sexual attraction to Mary Magdalene.The roots of Christian terror are…
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Civilization and enlightenment – humanity’s path from darkness to light
The year 1995 is not far away in history. In Finland, we listened to the Spice Girls, 2Pac and Oasis. Children played with Tamagotchi and Play Station. Windows -95 had appeared. The Soviet Union had fallen and Finland had joined the EU. Today’s young adults lived their childhood. However, a bloody war was going on…
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A government of hatred, anti-liberalism and regression – the dark history of anti-liberalism
In Finland, a couple of months ago, the right-wing and left-wing parties had almost equal results in elections, but the right-wing bloc got slightly more votes. This has led Finland to move in the direction of the extreme right, like a pendulum movement, especially because the government that just started its operation has an extreme…
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The Phantom menance – Fear creates the populist far right and stupidity sustains it
I previously wrote a blog post ”Political extremism arises from incompetence”. Now I return to the same theme. Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt, who fled Nazi persecution to the United States, presented in her 1951 work The Birth of Totalitarianism that political extremism and totalitarianism arise from people being separated and not having power over things.…
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