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Currently, I feel so inclined to say Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Only Revolutions, but my actual three favorite books are Anna Karen...

I wouldn't let anyone know this, but I am kind of a closet Led Zeppelin fan. Posting this here for posterity. ??!

I don't see how either genuine representative or participatory democracy are akin to either of those things, but, whatever.

Well, okay, I apologize for venting.

I don't see how my assumption that there ought to be a somewhat equitable access to education is somehow indicative of that I advance some form of ext...

The socio-political ecology of Anarchism is terrible, but I will say that they do have things like not being guilty of humanitarian catastrophe going ...

I think that you misunderstand. Cultivating wisdom as such would result in the cultivation of cults of personality and the formation of intellectual c...

I'm just saying that Plato put forth that idea in opposition to the direct Athenian democracy and that it was, later, used to disrupt the Liberal demo...

I don't know. I think that it's superficially plausible. Aside from @"Apollodorus"'s assumption that the removal of the third holiest site in Islam fr...

There doesn't seem to be a place for me within them then, though I think that you might just have too negative of a depiction of them because of your ...

I suppose that, rather than give a rather recondite discursive analysis of the motivations behind The Anarchist Library's tacit support for Individual...

That's such a great song. rl to w/e, but not to u "My Back Pages" by The Byrds

In retrospect, I think that I should've opened the floor for a discussion on Simulation and Simulacra.

The Nordic Model is a syncretic form of Social Democracy and laissez-faire Liberalism. You effectively have things like free universal healthcare and ...

There's something to be said for High Fantasy, y'know? Okay, so, the Nordic countries have always had certain things going for them, namely that they'...

The aristocracy had adopted this kind of millenarian, technocratic, Neo-Classical, Aristotlean, substitution of the Liberal democratic project à la co...

"Communism is a red herring." Within academia, there are all kinds of petty intellectual squabbles, neuroses, chauvinist disputes, sectarian ideologic...

Bangarang! Let the record show that Sweeden is a great country and that, should, at the level of a totality, there not occur a global nonviolent revol...

That's a good way of putting it, I think. Among radicals, I think that people do often get swept up within political slogans or incendiary phrases wit...

I think that that's kind of a glib way to put that, typical of the very hipsters I am trying to critique. What I'm suggesting about your idea of philo...

While an excellent assessment of what is off about the social ecology of the Anarchist movement, I don't think that you have considered well enough as...

I'm not trying to press you for anything or anything. I just thought that you created an interesting thread that, admittedly, offered me a forum to go...

I assume for the World Happiness Report to be fairly reflective of a person's general livelihood and of their relative freedom and meaningful particip...

My encounters with Marxists, which have, granted, been mostly online, has actually been quite different. In the way back when RevLeft was still operat...

How can you possibly make this claim? Sweeden is listed as the world's seventh most happy country on The World Happiness Report, behind a number of ot...

I'm kind of an outlier of this forum, as I just use it to ramble, but I think that the goal of The Philosophy Forum is to facilitate a kind of erudite...

I'll say what someone once quoted from the film, Heathers, to you, which is that "it's all about the inherent inequality to a game of croquet." To go ...

I was merely giving an anecdote as to why it is that I became an atheist. To my experience, the way in which The Story of Isaac is taught within Catho...

Right, that's what I'm saying. You don't consider the concept of marriage whatsoever or the state's role in defining it in that case, you are just giv...

I don't know if that quite explains the certain absurdity that I'm trying to get at. The Situationist International developed an ironic faux-aristocra...

I was referring to the basic structure of an organized debate at the university level. I wasn't actually talking about the Democratic or Republican pa...

I don't know, I feel kind of like training philosopher kings would be sort of like training artistic savants within Classical music. The entire intell...

That's a pretty good idea. I should've thought of that beforehand.

Not many fans like the film, but I thought that it was pretty good. The computer generated imagery was extraordinary for its time and is still fairly ...

I am glad. Thanks as well!

This person is both genuine and sincere and was referring to the social ecology of the Irsraeli populace. He had thought that going to Jerusalem would...

The Wikipedia definition of biopolitics is that it is "an intersectional field between human biology and politics. Biopolitics takes the administratio...

As I have the fortune of being within the libertarian Left, I can always claim that Abdullah Öcalan's change of heart was wholly without any form of s...

I do, in part, agree with your assessment, though find for the general proclivity towards Conservatism on the part of certain Jewish emigres to be fai...

Though there is much that any person could take away from the blistering sentimentality of the poetry presented as political theory in my above post, ...

Judaism will live on just as any other religion or spirituality will and can do so with or without the nation of Israel. I'm really just having a conv...

To the contrary, I don't think that capital has anything to do with this at all. I think the ruling order in Israel has cultivated a national myth tha...

He has found fault with the Israelis in the general course of this dispute. Though I, too, think that, as it particularly has unfolded, they are who i...

I, in the general course of this argument, have referred to the subjugation of the Palestinian populace on the part of the Israelis as a "biopolitical...

Marx was a gifted theorist and even though I disagree with him, particularly finding fault with The German Ideology, which you have cited, which does ...

@"180 Proof" has put forth the point of contention that, if an effective and lasting peace is to be established, then, because the Israelis have under...

If you can get past that he has left the implicatures of his discourse open so as to also be as if he were issuing an ultimatum, the substance of his ...

I'd bet that it's as per their reading of Frantz Fannon, who became common to invoke in debates upon the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, probably beginn...

The Left is guilty of kind of a lot of strategic machinations, but I don't think that appropriating relatively obscure right-wing philosophy is one of...

I was a rather ardent devotee of the libertarian Left, and, so, have never been willing to sacrifice our gift for critique for any form of unity, whic...