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This wasn‘t at all what I expected: it‘s largely a criticism of the state of the world that led to university uprisings/rebellions around the world in the 1960s. There‘s a lot of referring to works by other writers, both seminal (Engels) and contemporary (lots of late-1960s magazine/journal articles) without context or actual quotes (many of the quotes given aren‘t translated). This was my first Arendt and it was not a good starting point.

I admit I‘m not following much of this so far, but this statement seems wildly prescient, especially given a publication date of 1970:
“…Western representative democracy(which is about to lose even its merely representative function to the huge party machines that ‘represent‘ not the party membership but its functionaries).”

Arendt argues against Mao Tse-tung's dictum "power grows out of the barrel of a gun" in this work that still finds relevance in today's #Meandagun society.
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