Few of us hope to be politically active in our second century. But to the end of his life, the French sociologist and philosopher Edgar Morin, who has died aged 104, continued to speak out against populism, totalitarianism, nationalism, colonialism, the hegemony of profit, inequality, hate and that ubiquitous monster, stupidity.
Only two years ago, the former resistance fighter wrote in France’s leading leftwing newspaper Libération: “The time for a new resistance has come! [We must resist] the lies, the illusions, the collective hysterias of the extreme right.”
