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Interview

Olavo de Carvalho answers the questions of the Editors of Wydawnictwo Podziemne

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

WP: According to common perception, a revolution was initiated in Poland in 1989 with historical significance and global consequences. There is…

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Article

Making Essential Information Available Again

June 15, 2020January 8, 2021 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

One of the essential items of the Gramscian menu that now regulates the Brazilian mental diet is information control, which…

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Essay

[2/3] UNDER THE COMMAND OF A CORPSE

May 11, 2020 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

Olavo de Carvalho explains why Liberation Theology is alive and well in Latin America. Olavo de Carvalho July 19, 2016…

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Interview

Olavo de Carvalho on Communism in Latin America

April 11, 2020 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

Alex Newman interviews Olavo de Carvalho The New American, March 15, 2010 "Olavo de Carvalho, an author and philosopher, is…

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Harvest Time

April 2, 2020January 8, 2021 Olavo de Carvalho Leave a comment

After the downfall of the USSR became an accomplished fact, the Forum of São Paulo has been, since 1990, the…

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Friendship

“St. Thomas Aquinas defined friendship in the following terms: idem velle, et idem nolle, that is, your friend is the person who wants the same things you want and rejects the same things you reject. If you cannot find a group that identifies with your objectives and values, you will obviously be isolated among other people, who will be either strange or hostile to you. (…) Aristotle considered friendship to be the basis of a polity.  Friendship is not a “political” phenomenon in the sense that we currently understand politics; but nevertheless, if there were no human tendency to form groups united through friendship, through the  commonality of objectives and values, no political society would ever be possible. Friendship is also one of the pillars upon which our personality is built. If you do not find adequate friends, who share values with you, you will end up associating yourself with other groups, which will offer you support and friendship in exchange for your own corruption, your relinquishing your own values and making useless and abject sacrifices before the altar of a false friendship.”  — Olavo de Carvalho, Philosophy Online Course, Lecture 1.

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