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Peter Kropotkin: Mutual aid (2006, Dover Publications) 5 stelle

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a 1902 collection of anthropological essays by Russian …

Review of 'Mutual aid' on 'Goodreads'

5 stelle

Kropotkin is a classic, of course, but what I didn't expect is that this book is packed with data and and historical information about different land management structures which existed across Russia before a specific economic model was imposed on everybody. I wish Kropotkin had had the resources to conduct studies of the sort Elinor Ostrom did on Swiss pastures. Now so much has been lost forever.

ha recensito Preferirei di no di Giorgio Boatti (Struzzi -- 527)

Giorgio Boatti: Preferirei di no (Italian language, 2001, Einaudi) Nessuna valutazione

Review of 'Preferirei di no' on 'Goodreads'

Nessuna valutazione

L'argomento è interessante, i dodici straordinari; ma da quel poco che ho letto il libro mi sembra troppo agiografico e poco storico (del resto Boatti è un giornalista), insomma non molto profondo, una semplice somma di biografie. Non ho tempo per finirlo, e non credo che lo riprenderò in prestito.

Review of 'Gambling with Armageddon' on 'Goodreads'

5 stelle

The real story behind the fiction of an orderly deployment of nuclear weapons, which is simply madness. We conveniently deceive ourselves into thinking that nuclear policy is no longer a threat to humanity, and can be separated from other evils like climate change, or that other issues should take priority. But how can we be so convinced that we'll make the best decisions about the nukes of today, when we've still not learnt our lessons from 1962?

«The real lesson of the Cuban missile crisis–the lesson that is consistently resisted because it marginalizes the value of nuclear weapons–is that nuclear armaments create ht eperils they are deployed to prevent, but are of little use in resolving them.»

Bernard Sanders: Outsider in the White House (2015, Verso) 2 stelle

As Bernie Sanders continues to cement his reputation as hero to the progressive left with …

Review of 'Outsider in the White House' on 'Goodreads'

2 stelle

Nothing new here unless you've been living under a rock since 2015, but it's an interesting piece of political communications and a very easy read. It's not all fluff: we get to learn interesting details about a number of concrete policy issues you rarely hear about, like energy saving, from the point of view of what has already happened in legislation rather than vacuous promises.

Karl Popper: The open society and its enemies (1990, Routledge) 4 stelle

An open society provides its citizens with a mechanism for changing government; a closed society …

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4 stelle

In this second volume, Popper puts to good use the concepts he developed in the first. I was a bit disappointed because we never get to learn a definition of this "open society", nor how to get there, but maybe that's the point. There is no single answer: Popper only shows us a method, which we need to learn by using it.

I've never had the patience to read Marx or Hegel in the original, and honestly I'm not sure one should, but I'm convinced Popper's analysis is one of the sharpest (at least for an empiricist point of view): it's brutal but also fair.

Every other page contains some insight that you may agree or disagree with, but remains useful food for thought for issues we're still facing some 80 years later, like the problem of NATO or climate change. Some of the concepts I've come to appreciate and …