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Claude Lefort

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Claude Lefort was a French philosopher and activist. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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1924 1
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1. Wikidata: Claude Lefort
  • Wikidata Q373036, class allow-list match, case-insensitive label variant (w-bbfill-smallsix2-0926/resolve_ci.ps1)
  • Wikidata Q373036, P569 (w-bbfill-smallsix3-0926)
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Claude Lefort (Wikipedia)
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    Claude Lefort (; French: [ləfɔʁ]; 21 April 1924-3 October 2010) was a French philosopher and activist.
  • Associated With: University of Sao Paulo, Article text
    In his academic career, Lefort taught at the University of São Paulo, at the Sorbonne and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), being affiliated to the Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron.
  • Practices Studied: The State, Article text
    A dictatorship does not aim for the destruction and absorption of society, and a dictatorial power is a power of the state against society, that presupposes the distinction of the two; the plan of a totalitarian party is to merge state with society in a closed, united and uniform system, subordinated under the fulfilment of a plan, "socialism" in the case of the USSR.
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