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You can contradict this with her conclusion to the text if you like, but can't you just let the council communists have their venerable Rosa Luxembour...

Right, but what I'm saying is that, though some of said bureaucrats do only really have power in the formal sense, to even be given such a position, y...

Eh, even if you just chalk it up to arms capital, which I wouldn't necessarily, people within those positions do occupy positions of power within what...

For all that they claim has been a success in the beaten way of jurisprudence and arms proliferation, I would prefer to leave American military strate...

The notebook being the record of events to have come beforehand, I think, was really clever. You're, like, reading the story that the story is about. ...

Conspiracy theory: @"Baden" hasn't published anyone's submissions and has authored all of these texts himself so as to score some writing tips.

I understand the distinctions in an abstract philosophical sense. I guess it just seems that what most nihilists tend to accept is a philosophical pes...

I'm sure that's entirely sensible or, at least, seemingly so, but that does seem to just be a localized reconceptualization and salvaging of Liberalis...

Effectively and ineffectively, yes. Right, but what you are still describing is just a functional Liberal democracy. It's as optimistic to suggest tha...

I sailed to the edge of a flat Earth in a dream before, but I'm not sure if that counts.

Heh, I always leave the comma outside of the quote and I live in the US. I never really paid too much attention to the grammatical aspects of English ...

That's all up to you, I think.

Oh, I see. I had misinterpreted your statement. I have previously given a rather expository post as to what I prefer to Liberal democracy. I haven't k...

I support the withdraw, despite that I think that the Taliban will continue to fight and eventually win. It's a sad and difficult situation within a c...

I would chalk the rationale behind the so-called "War on Terror" moreso up to a justification for the expansion of the security apparatus than I would...

On a second review of your post, it seems like you're just arguing for an effective Liberal democracy. That's just how Liberal democracy is supposed t...

I deleted this comment to make this all just one post.

I guess there seems to be a difference between what nihilists say that nihilism is and what it more often than not turns out to be. It usually turns o...

That's a pretty good one, but I did kind of actually do that.

It's strange that @"Nikolas" quotes Simone Weil, who aided the Durruti Column during the Spanish Civil War. It could've been from a critique of hers o...

Thanks! Y'know, for all of thought, time, and effort that I have put into factional disputes within the Anarchist movement, I really haven't thought t...

An interesting and optimistic assessment of technocracy that I'd have to think more about. I'm used to hearing the term used in a much more negative c...

Eh, I was practicing mock criticism and self-criticism unto myself by that point, anyways.

Personally, I feel like you haven't appreciated well enough the nuances to my political theories. Sure, in The ABC of Communism, Nikolai Bukharin used...

Under certain Christian doctrines, pride is considered to be the cardinal sin, from which all others originate. Though I am not a Christian, I think t...

That's all well and good and all, but how does technocracy effectively resolve anything? It was the preferred millenarian social organization that ush...

The quote, I think, is a clear dig at the Soviet Union, which was probably informed by Kundera's experience in Communist Czechoslovakia. It's very poi...

I think that that's kind of a false dichotomy. You contrast technocracy, which, as it is advanced by whom you call "greenies", cyber-utopianism, I thi...

That's the second time you've said that quote to me, and, though, the first time that I agreed with you doing so, but, this time I'm not quite so sure...

Sort of, I guess, though order can become quite terrifying when brought to a point of excess, as it very well may be, given a societal and ecological ...

What I mean about the political complex that I have is that its born out of that I am an Anarchist who is both wildly unpopular within and neither agr...

Not by any stretch of my imagination, but, if they want to fund us, we might consider letting them build some of micro-nations or whatever. For all th...

Wait until you are repeatedly referred to it and then forced to prove that you are neither a Neo-Liberal nor a Marxist-Leninist. There is a certain co...

I have always and always will have taken the side of one, Peter Kropotkin. Mikhail Bakunin's "communist anarchism" was a mistake. Anarcho-Communism is...

Fanaticism is a plight of any political philosophy, Anarchism included, despite its defense mechanisms, but you're moreso talking about the caricature...

Ha! This track is great. It's a real trip to see Clapton chauffeuring King.

I'm about half of the way through this video. It's very sobering, and refreshingly so. It's somewhat strange for someone like Rupert Read to echo eith...

I feel like I just aced an interview for the first time in my life in what is now my lucky blue paisley lined Ralph Lauren blazer. If you have a consi...

I was moreso just citing examples of common myths that seek to project the life of a ruler or civilization indefinitely. I wasn't really undertaking a...

Well, thanks, I guess. There was so much exposition upon the theories of Stan Salthe that, given that I knew nothing of them beforehand, I wasn't enti...

She does have the world's most gold medals, and, so, if she wasn't feeling up to the competition for whatever reason, I don't see what the big deal is...

Same.

I said that I was fine with it in that case. I've been talking about psychologically motivated assisted suicide, quite particularly. I don't think tha...

I thank you for such a lengthy and erudite post, which I have no real idea as to how to respond to other than to beg a question by asking you if you c...

Well, to voluntarily euthanize yourself, you do have to receive some sort of assessment from a psychologist or another, and, so, somewhere down the li...

If someone is dead set on committing suicide, sure, an opiate is preferable to a revolver, but, I guess that the offered solution doesn't adequately c...

If you watch it all at once, it does seem to last for a near eternity, but is considerably better than most television.

I'm not going to do this because of that I just don't use this website, but, now that I brought up internet gatekeepers, I kind of want to make that c...

I don't know. I think that, even in my personal life, I still find something or another to gain from just about everyone. Perhaps I'm just too willing...

That doesn't seem like a genuine sanction. I guess that I'll wait a while on this, then.