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A new lie is sold to us as history. The lie about the defeat of hope, the lie about the defeat of dignity, the lie about the defeat of humanity. The mirror of power offers us equilibrium in the balance scale: the lie about the victory of cynicism, the lie about the victory of servitude, the lie about the victory of neoliberalism.
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Motta, S.C., Nilsen, A.G. (2011). Social Movements and/in the Postcolonial: Dispossession, Development and Resistance in the Global South. In: Motta, S.C., Nilsen, A.G. (eds) Social Movements in the Global South. Rethinking International Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230302044_1
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