18 September 2000 Much like a healthy organism, if a well-organized and strong society has its own internal mechanisms to resist any form of infection, then the main objective of any authoritarian rule is precisely to produce a pathology that the social immune system cannot ward off. Or, in particular, the main objective would be to cause the splitting of […]

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