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Robert Paxton says that fascism is best described by what it does, rather than what it's program is. If we leave out killing all the Jews and invading...

The Sancaklar Mosque is magnifique! stone, concrete, water, earth exterior light reflected into the interior space very abbreviated colors, textures--...

More on FLW: These three pictures show Wright's development over a 20 year period at the beginning of his career. /uploads/resized/files/lc/ekovfz1te2...

Trump Towers and Aqua In order: Aon, Trump, Trump, Aqua, Aqua Trump Tower, including the shaft on top, is the second or third tallest building in the ...

/uploads/files/8k/6a7w4210vv4vt9tt.jpg The Robie House is near the University of Chicago; it is perhaps Frank Lloyd Wright's finest design. It's a ver...

JAMES J. HILL HOUSE (St. Paul, MN) /uploads/resized/files/b0/suzgxnp91u5agd01.jpg James J. Hill (of the Great Northern Railway) built his little bird ...

/uploads/resized/files/n7/11byx4t26cqtlzeu.jpg The Driehaus mansion on E. Erie, near the north side luxury shopping area (and Trump Towers) is the res...

The situation isn't exactly like some religions where, if you leave, you might get beheaded. You can come and go as you like. Post here, post there.

I used to do HIV prevention outreach to high risk populations -- this was back in the late 1980s. The bars and baths were safe from crime; the adult b...

Guilty as charged. I am Eurocentric. Why should I not be? It would be odd if I were not. Why would it be better for you or me if I were Sinocentric, A...

As Marx said, the State is a committee to organize the affairs of the Bourgeoisie. I guess one could imagine an arrangement where corporations entirel...

Hmmmm... I didn't include corporations. The corporation is really recent, unless you classify monasteries as a sort of corporation. They were, in a wa...

Right. Everything from family to church (except kingdoms) exists within the state, as well as being developmental stages over the long run. (Developme...

The features defining The State and distinguishing it from Family, Band, Village, City, Church, and Kingdom, are several. The Family, of course, is th...

After a closer examination of the ancient manuscript, I see that I mistranslated Old Soc. He said, "It's better to be a pain in the ass than to have o...

"Far better to have hemorrhoids than to be one." Socrates

Arthritis benign enlarged prostate bone spur on big toe depression glaucoma occasional basal cell skin cancer Nothing too debilitating, thanks to medi...

I did, but the demonstrations were pretty sparse. I think we can chalk that up to the military using the pool of National Guard troops (running them r...

I haven't read The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich for a long time. Reich had some good insights into political behavior, despite his scre...

The Anatomy of Fascism by Paxton is a full length treatment. The shorter article to which Moliere linked, the 5 stages of Fascism, is good too. Fascis...

"States do not have friends, they have interests" mostly describes state to state relationships. Even the UK and the US are not "friends" when it come...

This probably won't appeal to black metal guys, but who knows? Classical Tracks on MN Public Radio this morning featured Louise Dubin, The Franchomme ...

Maybe.

So, after all this, do we agree on anything, here? Is ISIS good, bad, or negligible? If ISIS is bad, what may, might, can, should, be done? Most philo...

States have interests, they don't have friends. States are not virtuous. They can't be evaluated like persons. States pursue interests. 75 years ago t...

I think the state can be, and may/might/sometimes/often is different than the people who compose it. For instance, was Austria at it's antisemitic wor...

The governors of the rejecting (or accepting, or no comment) states don't have a say about accepting refugees -- at least, not immediately. Refugees a...

I don't know. Perhaps the heavy (????-?) reference in the title is ironic. The light of dawn and dusk is weightless and is diffused and uncentered (af...

Gee whiz! If all they want is to die and go to heaven, don't they realize we would be more than happy to arrange their demise?

Western imperialist rubbish, obviously. (Not to me)

I bet Kurdish women who are equal to men, even if it was imposed on them by Western Imperialists, would be reluctant to give up their equal status. I ...

Even though it was cream cheese by comparison, quite a few young Americans were attracted to various leftist organizations and radical loony groups in...

Suggesting "absolutely no reaction" to a terrorist action in which 129 (+/-) were killed, about 100 were critically wounded, and 200+ more sustained s...

I think they are a very highly developed form of looney.

I've been reading the Wall Street Journal during a short term $1.00 promotional period. I had always thought the WSJ was good for at least two or thre...

If I get Marx right, one of the reasons the present countries of North Africa, the Middle East, and elsewhere didn't develop liberal democracies is th...

Last night on the BBC a Northeastern University professor who studies terrorism made a useful observation: "What did the terrorists want to achieve? W...

I think we all need to recognize a distinction: What makes sense on a ranch in the arid wastes of Arizona (Anasazi word for "arid waste") or on a farm...

Something is definitely cuckoo in Kangerooland but I can't quite figure out where cuckoo and proper begins and end. a. Australia has the usual and cus...

One should say what one thinks as effectively as one can and then let the chips lay wherever they land. If people don't like it, tough bounce. I voted...

Three good examples, small to large: A bond issue for a new school failed four times in my small "home town" (where I have not lived in 50 years). Are...

Does the spirit of a congregation create the spirit of god, or is it "the call of the spirit of god" that arises? It seems to me that god, goodness, f...

Do you prefer to do eclectic ark welding or do you weld with an oxymoron torch?

Goodness. That doesn't sound like a healthy practice at all! Plus, it exemplifies the objectification and the oppression of third world women by rich ...

Isn't it the case that there are no two ideas so stupid but some philosopher has tried to weld them together?

Marco is clearly the best looking male candidate among the Republicans, beating out Carly and Donald both. He will wield his well-welded genetically h...

One of the interesting things about the soup cans, the Brillo pad box (Warhol) or the the pop art figure (Roy Lichtenstein) is that they these designs...

In the field of Supply Chain Management there are (I have heard) formulae worked out for how much warehouse space and staff one would need to support ...

I think Bob Dylan's early stuff, especially, is great art -- even if the guy was not a great singer to start with and got worse over time. I'd count H...

Terry Jones, Barbarians (an alternative history) - so far, B+ / A- Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories - so far, A Robert Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism...