The war in #Ukraine got me to read #HannahArendt on #Imperialism (the #NationStateSystem ) and pay attention to the war in #Yemen and all the #MilitaryBases in #Djibouti ... All of that brought to mind a book, in #OgdensBasicEnglish by someone who was thought to be the greatest teacher of the 20th century...
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.74399
#NationsAndPeace #IARichards #IAR #UnitedWorldFederalists #ArchiveOrg

"The Decline of the Nation-State
and the End of the Rights of Man" #AmReading a 5.7MB chapter on #Imperialism of the 27.2MB book #OriginsOfTotalitarianism by #Arendt , #HannahArendt . This one page (284) , the top paragraph and footnotes show the #NationStateSystem, as a #Kafka #ComedyOfErrors, full of legal contradiction... I #giggle while thinking of the #ignorance of world leaders but not when thinking of #refugees , the Earth's #StatelessPeople .
https://carleton.ca/polisci/wp-content/uploads/Hannah-Arendt-The-Origins-of-TotalitarianismPart-II-Chapter-9.pdf