I am not a member of BLM, and haven't supported them. BUT... Hey, Book: The rioting of last summer (following G Floyd's death) began less than a mile ...
After sampling a Marxist reading group last fall I decided there just wasn't enough time between me and the grave to spend it on reading more Marx. On...
Marxist jokes aren't funny.... Unless everyone gets them. I looked up Marxist jokes with Google and the first couple dozen I looked at were terrible. ...
Question: How many Marxists do you think there are? (Marxist = have read at least his shorter writings and understand them; apply at least some Marxis...
I never encourage collective guilt feelings or collective self-hatred. It's tedious; it's unproductive; sometimes it is pretentiously faked. Individua...
BLM leaders made the strategic decision to focus on black deaths at the hands of the police, who are agents of civil power. That isn't the choice I wo...
Here's a reference: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein. The 'color of law" doesn't re...
"German soldier and his horse in the Russian SFSR, 1941. In two months, December 1941 and January 1942, the German Army on the Eastern Front lost 179,...
Hey, Counterpunch: I've seen the Elgin Marbles at the BM, and I'm kind of glad he took them. Ditto for the Rosetta Stone. It would have been better ha...
In a discussion among some leftists about a year ago, that very point about global warming was made: the consequences of an abrupt halt to the auto/fo...
With respect to housing policy, there is ample evidence that racial discrimination was baked into the enabling legislation and implementation. The gov...
I doubt if the entire windmill has to be replaced every 25 years; it's probably the generator at the top, driven by the blades, that has to be replace...
It was easy because the constitution and laws were just ignored, not just by private parties, but by the US Government and the States. Prime Example: ...
One of my problems (being a lefty) is I don't like a lot of the Left's knee-jerk positions. Like... the so-called cancel culture where one rumor of di...
Now, don't get me confused with StreetlightX. was "...public money promoting Black Lies Matter..." deliberate or accidental? I'm not a big BLM fan; gr...
Doctrinaire, "politically correct" ideologues would perhaps like to control Western Civilization, but really, how likely are they to succeed? A lot of...
I recently blew up what I thought was a solid friendship by confessing that I no longer had an interest in reading or discussing Marx, especially in t...
Free speech is free speech, no restrictions apart from reckless endangerment (like yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theater that isn't on fire). So yes, c...
The US Constitution restricts The State (or the states) from interfering with free speech. Private organizations (like churches, corporations, univers...
Mass delusions of the political kind are quite common. We socialists in American engage in delusional thinking just about every day. In this we share ...
Before 1/20/21, chances of impeachment are slim--just because such a proceeding is too time-consuming. I doubt if the House & Senate could get themsel...
Your argument resembles those of antinatalists: "being born means forced suffering". No matter how you start, you end up with livestock suffering. The...
I think what you said is true. Their capacity to suffer is why farming should be humane. Foie gras is an egregious example of cruelty. Also egregious ...
Is this the same Fish that Camille Paglia characterized as a "totalitarian tinkerbell"? It seems like secularists and religionists have opposed each o...
I am unanimously in opposition to theocracies of any kind. I'm equally against religious viewpoints getting their hog's snout into the secular stateho...
Of course for both there is a continuum of views, individual by individual. And secularity vs. religiosity have contended with each other for far long...
As noted above, "secularism" and "religious" are vague terms. "religious" can cover everything from people who are vaguely and slightly spiritual to t...
For what it's worth, the older term, "natural philosophy", became "science" in the 19th century (or maybe later in the 18th century, depending). Gradu...
At the moment of brain death our consciousness exits stage left and is never again seem on the stage. That's why death is a tragic event: there's noth...
Factory farming is not not inherently cruel and abusive; cruelty and abuse could take place just as easily on a little farm as a very big one. Cruelty...
Very true. The "collapse of the Roman Empire" was a slow-motion event requiring centuries to be complete. The centuries after its demise were times of...
Let's make a comparison of 1900 with 1960. In 1900 new technology had changed the way people lived and interacted. Production and distribution of elec...
On the one hand, we will have to agree to disagree. On the other hand, you did a fine job of supporting your position in this post. I looked at the se...
Your position on 1960 vs. 2020 is just plain wrong, because: You are missing the fact of cultural continuity. The 'current' economy driving western ci...
This definition fits the 'fall of the Roman Empire' fairly well. In 476 Odoacer rang down the curtain on the Roman Empire (according to many historian...
Maybe, but how would we know? Is there some reliable measure of cultural health analogous to individual physical health--blood pressure, white blood c...
H/Ging goes back maybe 200,000 years. What evidence have you heard of that they were gardening (or some sort of limited agriculture) that far back? An...
The question of good faith lending, admissions, and awarding degrees is complex. High school advisors should themselves be aware, and help students be...
Right. That's what I think, too. The theory floated in Against The Grain is interesting, but I don't see an aristocracy, an elite, or a state existing...
Many of us 'old people' (past 70, at least) find that it is difficult to get rid of stuff--not just really good stuff, but junk too. It seems like any...
That's what I've read, too. Agriculture requires a lot more intensive and extensive cooperative labor than hunting and gathering. The cycles of nature...
I collapsed my incomplete understanding of undigested ideas in a book I read part of a while ago. We lazy philosophers sometimes do that. Besides whic...
Sorry about that. The frontal lobe proofreader app failed again. Against The Current is a lefty magazine I used to read. Against The Grain is the titl...
That might be the case. I wasn't there, but it seems quite possible that some sort of early cabal roped a bunch of dopes into farming. Agriculture is ...
In philosophy of perception and philosophy of mind, naïve realism is the idea that the senses provide us with direct awareness of objects as they real...
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