Publisher's Synopsis
he word "politics" is unpopular, so much so that many people call themselves "apolitical" and prefer to avoid political topics in any conversation. Brecht calls such people "politically illiterate," questioning that the less we are involved in politics, the more we are complicit in the injustices and abuse of the state. In other words, politics is everybody's business and not only for those who are professionally dedicated to it, so that the more we avoid our political responsibility in the environment, the more we will contribute to the violation of our human rights and the worsening of inequality, since those who manage political affairs will take the greatest possible advantage of the generalized indifference. This book develops some issues to understand what politics is and how to become aware of our historical role. It discusses the political relationship between Christians, witches and communists; it clarifies what machismo, democracy, left and right in politics consist of, whether capitalism has a mythology, what is the relationship between Marxism, feminism and human rights, and concludes with a philosophical analysis of happiness.
