Thus, the enduring legacy of Communism (with all of its cynicism) in our world today must be added to the deadly mix encompassing the dystopian uses of technology, the finite size of the earth, the ravages of climate change, the ends of both monarchy and empire, the fast-forward development of precision-guided weaponry as well as of artificial intelligence, and so forth. And this deadly mix also involves the pathologies of urbanization that I will describe in the third part of this book—all in all accounting for the permanent crisis, which, as we will see later on, approximates the inner logic
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