Author: H. Hofman and D. Birman
Чому війна? Why war? Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a declaration of war on this sovereign country and beyond, namely the West. When a country declares war on another country, we are at war, we cannot go and say we are not at war. It is impossible!
Where does this hatred of democracy come from? The thesis of Miriam Revault d’Allonne, which she develops in her book “Why We Don’t Love Democracy”, provides an eloquent answer, showing that this hatred comes from the gap that democracy maintains between the symbolic and the real and is the condition of possible mutations of power relations due to disintegration power, while totalitarian regimes are attempts to “remake the body” by eradicating the intolerable uncertainty of the human condition by the will to be One, incarnating the head of the social body.