Old Wounds
Today, France and the entire world are entering an era that the French economist Thomas Piketty calls ‘hypercapitalist’. According to his statistics, the wealth of the rich in the world today is growing five times faster than global income.
Goenawan Mohamad
February 21, 2022
A NAKED man, thin, blindfolded and fettered, is crawling. On his emaciated back sit three fat men apparently enjoying riding this decrepit mule…
I came across this strange picture in a small cupboard that used to belong to my father. It was only later when I was studying ‘world history’ at junior high school that I realized this disturbing scene was from a cartoon of the French Revolution in the 18th century: an allegory
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