It is to Mao Tse-tung that we owe the formula of the "great leap forward".
The slogan was perfect.
Perfect for describing the prowess of nations that had embraced liberal capitalism.
Because “the great leap forward” has indeed taken place;
it has lasted two hundred years, and humanity is landing on the tatami.
This phenomenon is today described by the new ecological intelligentsia as a final catastrophe, by decolonialist militants as the triumph of a deadly civilization, and by those nostalgic for the Third International as an unequal hell.
It is therefore important to return to the causes to better accept the consequences of what we are experiencing.
It is very important, in the ideological struggle of the moment, to stop taking seriously, once and for all, the counterfactual daydreams that make us suppose that another humanity would have been possible.
Nature does not follow a pre-established plan.
But it lays down conditions and indicates a direction, and that the...
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