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"truly woke" sounds very squishy and disgusting.
January 15, 2021 at 21:00
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 ...
January 15, 2021 at 20:52
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...
January 15, 2021 at 04:31
Indeed.
January 15, 2021 at 04:13
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. ...
January 15, 2021 at 01:51
Thanks. Not enough Marx Jox around. I'll add that to my "Pretty Good Joke Book".
January 15, 2021 at 01:35
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...
January 14, 2021 at 21:58
I never encourage collective guilt feelings or collective self-hatred. It's tedious; it's unproductive; sometimes it is pretentiously faked. Individua...
January 14, 2021 at 19:48
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...
January 14, 2021 at 07:04
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...
January 14, 2021 at 05:39
"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,...
January 11, 2021 at 00:08
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...
January 10, 2021 at 23:59
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...
January 10, 2021 at 22:18
With respect to housing policy, there is ample evidence that racial discrimination was baked into the enabling legislation and implementation. The gov...
January 10, 2021 at 21:43
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...
January 10, 2021 at 08:46
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: ...
January 10, 2021 at 08:25
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...
January 10, 2021 at 00:55
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...
January 09, 2021 at 23:42
Doctrinaire, "politically correct" ideologues would perhaps like to control Western Civilization, but really, how likely are they to succeed? A lot of...
January 09, 2021 at 19:41
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...
January 09, 2021 at 19:33
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...
January 09, 2021 at 03:08
The US Constitution restricts The State (or the states) from interfering with free speech. Private organizations (like churches, corporations, univers...
January 09, 2021 at 01:05
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 ...
January 09, 2021 at 00:53
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...
January 08, 2021 at 22:50
Your argument resembles those of antinatalists: "being born means forced suffering". No matter how you start, you end up with livestock suffering. The...
January 08, 2021 at 19:29
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 ...
January 05, 2021 at 08:13
Is this the same Fish that Camille Paglia characterized as a "totalitarian tinkerbell"? It seems like secularists and religionists have opposed each o...
January 05, 2021 at 04:17
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...
January 04, 2021 at 23:44
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...
January 04, 2021 at 23:27
As noted above, "secularism" and "religious" are vague terms. "religious" can cover everything from people who are vaguely and slightly spiritual to t...
January 04, 2021 at 20:01
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...
January 03, 2021 at 02:19
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...
January 02, 2021 at 00:21
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...
December 31, 2020 at 08:15
He might want to watch vintage Seinfeld episodes about producing a TV show about nothing. One of my favorites.
December 30, 2020 at 07:34
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...
December 29, 2020 at 21:09
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...
December 29, 2020 at 20:08
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...
December 29, 2020 at 19:33
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...
December 28, 2020 at 19:57
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...
December 28, 2020 at 18:55
That is the question, isn't it. We probably can't see it except through a long-range rear-view mirror.
December 28, 2020 at 09:18
Maybe, but how would we know? Is there some reliable measure of cultural health analogous to individual physical health--blood pressure, white blood c...
December 28, 2020 at 09:07
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...
December 27, 2020 at 05:31
The question of good faith lending, admissions, and awarding degrees is complex. High school advisors should themselves be aware, and help students be...
December 26, 2020 at 23:23
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...
December 26, 2020 at 08:00
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...
December 25, 2020 at 22:02
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...
December 25, 2020 at 17:49
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...
December 25, 2020 at 17:22
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...
December 25, 2020 at 16:55
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 ...
December 25, 2020 at 09:53
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...
December 25, 2020 at 01:16