Do we really live in a dictatorship? – Diepresse.com

« Socialism is above all a theory of human freedom, » Lea Ypi begins her seminars on the London School of Economics gladly; And so the professor of political philosophy also begins the epilogue for her book « Free » (free « ), which became an international success from 2021.

The fact that life in this European North Korea was brought closer to an international public was already largely due to the literature. It was the books of the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare, who died in 2024, who, smuggled to France, gave the world an impression of this completely isolated country: of decades of terror and torture, the hardly overhaulable personnel cult and total indoctrination.

As unfree as under Hoxha?

And yet Lea Ypi is not afraid to equate this time at one point in her in many ways, in many ways, equivalent to the western presence in which she lives: « My world », she writes in it, « is as far away from freedom from which my parents wanted to escape. »