Thanks for the responses, all! I think this is my point too, but unfortunately arguing that there is no "Chinese physics", that there's only physics, ...
Good question. I really wonder what will happen after Trump. It brings to my mind questions like a) What damage has Trump done to the GOP? b) What is ...
OK, let's look at the history of libertarian communism then, Moliere? Where do you find it or what examples do you have in mind? Perhaps in the Spanis...
You even have a different language among the classes. Above all, the British are very class conscious in a totally different way than others. And I sh...
In some occasions obedience is quite logical, even if you don't think the command is the most optimal. For instance, a symphony orchestra follows the ...
Are you serious? You know, I've thought about starting a thread on this British (or should I say English) gloominess and persistent self-flagellation,...
Far easier to declare victory on fictional problems, or more precisely, delusional solutions (as if a wall will solve things) than to create real solu...
Of course, people can justify violence and tyranny for every possible benevolent cause there is. You see, it's easy to find faults in an existing soci...
Libertarian communism is in my view an odd oxymoron. Now it's true that Leftist libertarianism has been overshadowed by right-wing libertarianism (and...
The OP's question does have a logical alternative. Yes, every family makes boats, but as the trip to the unknown will definately be extremely dangerou...
In the communist economic model the market mechanism is replaced with central planning. Central planning is anything but anarchism. Furthermore, that ...
There's a vast amount of video recordings of brilliant lectures even now in the internet. Yet the most important aspect is lacking: you cannot interac...
Yep. An effective joint effort to minimize illegal immigration would be far complicated to explain to a Trump supporter. Or to Trump, for that matter....
Both ideals have never been implemented on a larger scale. That is, communist have tried to achieve communism via totalitarian socialism, but it never...
As you agree with the obvious result of ban on billionaires and 92% tax rate, I should point out it doesn't result only in capital flight, but basical...
A bit off from the subject, but for an atheist it's quite easy. And in the process of "natural selection" you really don't need God, when you have a r...
Well, Denmark has 10 or so billionaires to 5,8 million people. The US with 327 million people and 585 billionaires. That means if I counted correctly,...
If it's rarely been achieved, then tell me the example. And changing the "status quo" means today attacking some group of people, who are described to...
Yes. But do note that any political ideology starts as the objective being "the well being of the citizens". This well being then can be tried to be r...
Care to give an example of a country that doesn't have a power elite? An executive branch? Basically any kind of centralized government means that the...
I would put it this way: If you have a healthy prosperous economy, you can afford a welfare state and all the perks that come with it. Hence the state...
Rejecting God or any diety is easy. But as you say, what is exceptionally hard for many people is the difference between "man" and "nature" as obvious...
Similar things have been tried, they simply don't work. I remember being taxed 72,9% and believe me, I wasn't making a million, I was making roughly i...
Or that scams, kidnappings or other illegal activities use cryptocurrencies. It's just like with the 500 euro note: seldom accepted anywhere and hugel...
With the narrow definition, capitalism means private ownership of the means of production. Hence for the narrow definition the opposite would be socia...
What we can do is apply scientific methods in the study of politics. This can be simply using statistics or sometimes more advanced models. First and ...
So, nearly one year later since the last time this thread was active... people still interested in cryptocurrencies? Bitcoin less than half what it wa...
Even if I don't live in the UK, I do presume that the British media, as just like any media for that matter, will portray the whole event bigger than ...
Not only is it winter, but even so, this is a bit too dramatic. Perhaps the no-deal-Brexit is something equivalent to the Y2K scare? Not something to ...
The devil is allways on the premises. If I remember correctly, even Marx himself said that the proletariat might not go after communism, but simply de...
Actually, the problem is that social sciences have all a normative element. Politics makes it so. If you say something about the society or it's econo...
Living up to your name, eh? There's absolutely nothing scientific, nothing engaging the scientific method about an erraneous theory that history has p...
There's strength in that different countries can handle things differently and everybody isn't pushed into the same mold. Historically large centraliz...
That's not actually my point. It was that being obsessively concentrated on any issue might drive to mental problems. Hence the reference to artists g...
The basic difficult here is to understand that the EU, however it wants to be a federation, is still what you would call a confederation. In fact if s...
Or even the science crowd, usually. Never overestimate the intelligence of academic people. You see, thinking out of the box is as difficult for them ...
The interesting thing is that when you get over 100 000 leaving the country in one year, even if that isn't a huge number to the whole population, tha...
Of course. EU migrant workers are a different breed from Third World migrants, that's the ugly truth. Interestingly, the British statistical office di...
Really??? Here's your latest official statistic (Nov 2018) on this issue: • There were 2.25 million EU nationals working in the UK, 132,000 fewer than...
I say you are wrong. All geniuses aren't walking a tightrope, and mathematicians don't have a high risk of falling insane. There will be for sure at l...
Same thing that the Scottish wanted from the UK: nice independence, but all things good for business to stay as it was in the union. It's called cherr...
Assume you think just about mathematics. Nothing else at all. All the time. Now, if you get to be not only eccentric compared to others, but this make...
That "sustaining themselves" has a variable threshold. A lot of people live paycheck-to-paycheck to maximize their utility. The majority of people liv...
There's the Paradox: nativism gives a premise to racism (and xenophobia), yet is also the cornerstone of any ethnical or cultural identity. Just like ...
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