Skimming his book ‘The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy’ (1920) because it was referenced by Domenico Losurdo’s book on Stalin to point out that white supremacist prejudices essentially reflected the geopolitical significance of the USSR as an ally of third-world national liberation movements.
On this day in 1945 Germany surrendered to the Red Army. This came four years after invading the Soviet Union, which lost 27 million people, resisting, then defeating this genocidal invasion.
If the objective is to save lives, the optimal/utilitarian solution would be to maximise the self-isolation of as many people as possible for an indefinite period, so that asymptomatic carriers of the virus won’t transmit it among their community…
