“The old world is dying. And the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters,” wrote the renowned Italian philosopher and politician Antonio Gramsci. It applies as much to the 2020s as to the 1930s, when Gramsci pitted his Marxist ideology against the Fascist power of Benito Mussolini. The old world that Gramsci saw dying was the result of the monstrous politics practised by leaders like Adolf Hitler and Mussolini, and even Joseph Stalin, who was also a Marxist. Others, like US President Franklin Roosevelt, through his silence, and British PM Neville Chamberlain, through his appeasement of Hitler in 1938, helped hasten the death of that world.

The chaos of the 1930s resulted in the outbreak of World War II and the birth of a new world order. Now, as that order, built on pi

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