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I think you can tell by what people do with their eyes and hands when they're talking how verbally they think vs in images. I suppose you're suggestin...

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I wasn't presenting that as a justification. Just pointing out that it's something most Marxists understand.

I believe my point is in line with a Marxist view. It's one of the reasons Lenin thought that morality is for "the little people." He, of course, was ...

Its ideology has its roots in a conflict with aristocracy. We may forget that historically social mobility was limited. The people at the bottom had n...

Capitalists rejected social stratification based on divine right. Capitalists need maximal freedom to operate and so advocate freedom for everyone.

If I step and save you every time you're in trouble, I'm robbing you of the education you will need to survive long term. In this way, I freeze you in...

I think you probably know this, but I'll just point it out because it's something I'm unusually sensitive to. Mike Davies is a Marxist activist. It do...

I'm more than happy to revise my thinking and name the British the greatest example of human failure. I'm just missing the facts that would allow me t...

There was a particular global club in the 20th Century called Communists. Among their famous members was Lenin. If any commune is an example of Commun...

60 Minutes might be more interested in ratings than fairness. The fact that a strong anti-NRA stance is the moment's definition of PC signifies what? ...

You left out pride in being gun-toting bad-asses.

Good points, but what I see is a lack of substantial conflict. The problems in front of us may be grave (climate change for instance), but it's not co...

I'm more than happy to learn something new. Could you explain how this famine was a result of colonialization? And more specifically, how did it resul...

Or the mir. It's an example of a commune, not Communism.

I see. It did lead to horror. So did communism. ?

Are you saying that Marx was advocating a medieval social arrangement?

Not really. The beautiful side of it was all the naive hopes of 19th Century liberals. It was all about trust in nature and devotion to freedom. Pure ...

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It's a little easier to pin deaths on communist regimes because there are records left from the time and we know that actions that resulted in depopul...

Yes. It's called a corporation. The concept is from Roman law. It's beginnings in northern Europe were travelling merchants who needed a place to stay...

Ideal communism is no doubt beautiful. The same is true of ideal capitalism. All ideals are wonderful. On the ground, in actuality, things are always ...

They paid warlord/aristocrats for protection. That is not Marxism. Marxism is a passive wait for history to reveal its purpose. Communists chose not t...

I agree.

I meant buried the way Banshees are. They're old goddesses who escape their burial mounds from time to time to fill the hearts of the living with drea...

Nevertheless, due to the unparalleled scale of destruction and death associated with communist regimes, I would like to see the word "Communism" burie...

The meaning I assign to this statement is that the best tacos are made in California. I will now proceed to see how that works. I am glad to have been...

I agree. I also agree that there are types of communication that do not require volition.

I'm not particularly tangled. I believe volition is a requirement of communication. I wondered what the opposing view might be. Perhaps there is no op...

I appreciate your response. I am low on time at present.

Bear with me: Imagine for a moment that my motor cortex is a piano. I have no conscious control over the melody it's playing. The player is my environ...

Maybe speech acts come in different varieties. Some necessarily volitional and some not. I'd say that making a claim requires volition. Expressing pai...

I'm not sure what the reasoning would be there. Could you explain further?

It's basic philosophy of mind. Consciousness is epiphenomenal if it tags along like a shadow of events. No action is consciously caused.

Would Freud assign volition to the unconscious?

Does that mean that in the second case "infinite" is being used as a quantity?

Suppose Jeff is anti-Semitic. He believes P where P is that Jews are evil. Would we be following your theory of belief to say that belief in P is the ...

If the limits of language are the limits of our world, then language also limits our beliefs?

I believe the answer, as it relates to belief, is twofold. 1. Man is the measure of all things. We're limited in the ways we believe we are. We're fre...

Well the discussion was fruitful for me anyway. :)

No. In assessing the nature of belief we're attempting to pull ourselves free of our time and place to occupy a vantage point on who and what we are. ...

I'm sure you guys already went through this, so chalk it up to my attempt to catch up. But we should step back and witness ourselves sorting out our o...

David Chalmers is famous for having made that suggestion.

Think of sensory apparatus. In the most primitive of animals, sensation provides the means to interact with the environment. Some "learning" takes pla...

It's based on the suggestion of Dawnstorm that belief and instinct are aspects of the same thing. I like the idea.

Trump has taken a number of actions which could lead to an economic meltdown. If severe enough, that could potentially reset American democracy. When ...

Yes. Perhaps the choice is between possible worlds.

@Banno Because you said: It seemed that you were saying belief is present in instinct, but without choice. If you agree that instinctive action is act...

Why would you insist that belief is present in instinctive behavior? What evidence is there for this?

You are saying that democracy faces two threats: one internal and one external. Western democracies won't succumb to the external threat (China's cult...