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- Sep 2024
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The author claims that compromise is justified for the sake of peace, sometimes even at the expense of justice.
Could Avishai Margalit's idea of rotten compromise be applied to the concept of the "lost cause" and portions of the disappearance of Reconstruction following the Civil War? Are we now reckoning with the actual fallout of post-Civil War politics in the new millennium?
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- betrayal
- community of memory
- read
- The Ethics of Memory (2002)
- Reconstruction
- hypocrisy
- shared history
- Jahiliyya
- rotten compromises
- Willy Brandt
- compromise
- Michael Walzer
- slavery
- Josephus Flavius
- Avishai Margalit
- racism
- collective memory
- secrecy
- Marshal Petain
- memory
- duty of memory
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- Oct 2020
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However the political crisis within the state apparatus develops over the next month, American democracy is at death’s door. The serendipitous accident of the White House pandemic cannot restore health to a social and political system that is rotten to the core.
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