What has Marx to do with democracy? Marx isn't talking about democracy, especially not as an safety valve for society, but as a means for proletarian ...
And when has that democracy happened in reality? Well, a lot of us who don't believe in communism and before didn't believe in marxism-leninism have h...
What I gather is that Peterson doesn't even like the question (of being a believer in God) and is somewhat between what Religion and using the scienti...
The basic problem in the US is that people don't remember the time when Republicans were sane, to put it bluntly. Bush, Reagan, even Nixon and especia...
Oh, how about starting with the theories of Marx that makes him different from social democrats? Like class struggle, the dictatorship of the Proletar...
So we have a rather new member that hates Jordan Peterson (or what Jordan Peterson is supposed to stand for). Ok, that's a very popular stance among t...
First came Napoleon, then came Hitler. They're not going to wait for the third one. Or that's the jingoist line how aggression is tried to be describe...
Who "we"? That they mess with other countries comes from their overwhelming paranoia and own insecurity. These people, the siloviki, genuinely believe...
The fact is that Democratic party is a centrist party that knows it will get leftists to vote for it ...because there is no leftist party in the US! O...
Let's hope that things go well in Belarus: that indeed Lukashenko would fall without piles of bodies and violence. Or then, it can go like with the de...
Left wing progressives of the Democratic party loose again. But of course, the Dems aren't a genuine leftist party. Sounds like a great political pick...
How relations can turn sour is actually breathtaking. It only takes one sunk aircraft carrier in the South China Sea and there's no trace of globaliza...
Here's the bigger picture of the role of the US in World Economy: https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-fd3e5a5d2130d9acd49bed0d6154e913 Here's even a...
Yes. Boomers. :angry: There's nothing that you did well. That includes us, the Gen X, which is one of the smallest generations ever. This myth of fore...
I think the most dangerous aspect of nuclear weapons is the modern Russian doctrine of "nuclear de-escalation". I know, the West has had thoughts alon...
And the British got past losing their Empire too. Yeah, London was a nice place at least few years ago. I say everything is well as long as the dollar...
That's interesting. Yet I guess Russia and the US having about 5000 each and not 24 000 and 40 000 respectively does mean something. Third World war h...
You can enjoy the wonderful decadence of the decline of the US then, Banno. Yet should we remind ourselves that Oswald Spengler wrote his Decline of t...
In truth, it is great that a huge amount of the Cold War build up of nukes were indeed destroyed and both the US and Russia have now only a fraction o...
And they do not think that Israel is a threat to them. But then again, Israel can with impunity bomb both Syria and Lebanon as they don't have a nucle...
He didn't have a gun anymore. Actually there was a great article about this in Foreign Policy. The fact was that Saddam was lying to his own people (m...
The US is withdrawing from the Middle East, yes. That is one reason why now everybody is fighting for their piece of the pie. Same threat posed by the...
Fair enough, judaka. Or refer to the story of Carthage. You see, Carthage did surrender to Rome and did adapt to it's lesser role as a peaceful city a...
I've heard the same thing that there was a botched attempt to whack father Bush. Well, that might not be the reason to get into a quagmire that your v...
Neither do I, but I gather that a Philosophy Forum isn't representative of what people on average think about these issues. Clowns know they are playi...
As usual, I don't ignore it. I do agree with this, especially as this is speculation of all alternative history, surely Iraq would have a similar WMD ...
Which was the main argument for the invasion btw. And now thoroughly shown not to be true: the last remnants of Saddam Hussein's WMD project were dest...
Perhaps it's that people genuinely believe in destiny and karma. Hence if some area has a lots of conflicts, it's seen as it's the fault of the people...
Not likely, if the history profession is done using the scientific method as usually now is done. And political discourse uses only the few issues tha...
Obama administration did deal with things like ebola outbreaks, so you can extrapolate from there. And the relationship Hillary Clinton has with Repub...
What you depict and what and tell means that the US would have failed in it's pandemic response even without the absolute inability of Trump (which ma...
What is so wrong about thinking history in a longer scale than the typical American? If something that happened 60 years ago is important, why not som...
Totally wrong. What I have said that there cannot be a legal person without any people attached to it, starting from, oh I guess, that in the first pl...
I think Isaac we can advance from this onward. So I guess here's your point and correct me if I'm wrong: So is your question about if ownership and re...
Augustusea, It is great that you start looking at the problem from these two actors, not the very typical viewpoint of Westerners criticizing their ow...
Where is it possible? Do notice that animal rights have started from a totally different category. For example in the US in the 19th Century the start...
Cat's don't own anything in any country! Finally you get my point. But yes, associations can own cars and then the members of the association can use ...
In what country is you think that possible? Animals are not legal persons and cannot directly own property, at least for now. (You could argue that su...
Actually there is a lot of problems with this outrageous idea, and it's quite peculiar that you don't notice it yourself. So let's have this Isaac's c...
Referring to ad hominem attacks now, Banno? I did refer to that article and gave quotes from it. Well, you didn't ask my opinion, but about Friedman's...
Likely not. Real estate prices are quite high around the White House, so nobody will use there the real estate as a storage space for fertilizer. But ...
As Milton Friedman wrote in his paper about the issue: And if you would have read the article further, Milton Friedman continues: So I do stick to my ...
Ok. Now I'll stop responding to this topic. There's far more philosophical debate in arguing if pet animals or wildlife can own something than non-liv...
Well, pieces of paper cannot own anything. ...Which itself is the typical narrative based on stereotypes hauled against economists, especially the Chi...
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