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We live in the ‘time of monsters’, as Antonio Gramsci put it, in which every person is pitched against the other in competition driven by individualism at all costs, in a life-denying ideology that creates conditions that enforce and celebrate isolation and alienation. For this, ‘we have destroyed the essence of humanity: our connectedness’ (Monbiot, 2014).
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Kotze, A.v., Walters, S. (2017). Introduction. In: Kotze, A.v., Walters, S. (eds) Forging Solidarity. International Issues in Adult Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-923-2_1
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