Edgar Morin, 90, and Stéphane Hessel, 94, make a formidable pair. Hessel, a German naturalized French, former Resistance fighter, survivor of Nazi concentration camps who helped draft the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, became a worldwide celebrity this year with his essay ‘Time for outrage', inspiring countless protests around the globe against the wayward drift of capitalism. Morin, born to immigrant parents, also a Resistance veteran, is unanimously acclaimed as one of Europe's greatest 20th-century thinkers. The two continue their life-long resistance against injustice with a joint appeal, launched here on Mediapart, aimed at candidates in the upcoming French presidential elections. They outline a "path of hope" for a new society that shuns "the futile, the disposable, and the wasteful", calling for an end to economic policies which are "driving us to disaster", and for a return to values of social responsibility. By Edwy Plenel and Hugo Vitrani.
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