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• How the Silk Road Actually Worked (and What Could Go Terribly Wrong On It)

  14-09-2026 11:00 via openculture.com
  
  You don’t have to spend a long time reading up on the Silk Road before you see the term itself (“Silk Road”) called a misnomer. In fact, what we refer to by that name comprises a whole network of trade routes connecting Asia, Africa, and Europe, whose traffic constantly shifted over a millennium and a half according to climatic, geopolitical, and civilizational conditions. Nor was silk the only, or even the primary type of good carried along those routes. From East to West went
  
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• How Martin Luther King, Jr. Used Nietzsche, Hegel & Kant to Overturn Segregation in America

  14-09-2026 10:00 via openculture.com
  
  Image by Dick DeMarsico, via Wikimedia Commons
  The influence of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on the revolutionary philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is well known. Marx wrote a critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and claimed to have turned the German idealist philosopher on his head, and the development of Marxist theory among a school of neo-Hegelians, wrote Rebecca Cooper in 1925, occurred in a period “peculiarly auspicious for the birth of a revolutionary social ph
  
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