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Oligarchy is the rule of the few. So I see a few people holding positions of power over the vast majority of human beings. I would argue that very lit...

I’m not so sure of anarchism yet but I definitely wish to promote self-government and the rule of people over their own lives. The problem with democr...

After a brief look it appears the Quakers have clerks and elders and committees. Besides the belief that they are following God's will and not their o...

I read the paper you presented earlier but thanks for the exposition. I do think quibbling about his use of the word “law” here and there is warranted...

If Michels’ ideas are wrong there should be cases where he is. All it takes is some examples and the theory is essentially falsified. Wherever it is f...

I've read The Poverty of Historicism and am confident that Popper would approve of Michels' theory and methodology. I think it falls under what Popper...

No one is absolved from the fact they trumpeted nonsense for years and were complicit in injustice, undermining everything from the justice system to ...

Which organizations push the ideology of individualism? If I believed the fascist and socialist literature from the French Revolution onward I’d think...

The 300-page Durham report is finally out. Better late than never, I suppose. No probable cause, systematic failures, personal bias, two-tiered justic...

"Relationship" is a metaphor because there is no actual, physical connection between mother and child, save for the umbilical cord. "Connection" is al...

It's true that human beings and other primates are gregarious. But you are a single object. The last dyad you or I have ever experienced ended when th...

I don’t get why people push back against it because everyone we organize with is an individual. If you only see them as a means to some collective end...

We can quibble about how ferrous his law is. It just seems to me that if oligarchy wasn’t inevitable, and the law not so iron, that we’d see some soli...

Harth dropped the lawsuit right after Trump settled an outstanding business lawsuit from her partner. Weird how that happens. https://www.theguardian....

Look at the date of their accusations. October 2016. Why are you lying?

All after he became a political target of the highest order. Just a big coincidence, I guess.

@"Banno" is a collectivist. Given his inclination he sees hierarchies of power and the structure of a political party as folks working together.

I don’t doubt for a second that the Adult Survivors Act was designed to allow E. Jean Carrol an opportunity to attack Trump before the election, a sch...

They are going to hang them on gallows too small and weak to be used. Fact is, people often erect mock gallows at protests.

Then the very structure of your organization and path to democracy betrays your goals. Your organization requires hierarchy, the rule of the few, in t...

It's a self-fulfilling prophesy. Treat unjustly a group of people and then get angry when they get mad. The logic of petty tyrants.

None of your straw-grasping can contend with the fact no evidence of any sexual assault or admission of any sexual assault occurred in the video. All ...

True enough. But they wouldn’t have coercive political power. And I think cooperation could beat out organization any day. I’m not sure if this is tru...

I do appreciate all the attention but I'm far more interested in your opinion on the topic. Can you think of a way around the Iron Law of Oligarchy? O...

There was no jury selection process. Such a fair trial.

Are you saying that I think that others believe Trump assaulted someone in the video?

Do you think that when "they let you do it", it is assault? What I seem to think to you can be contrasted to what I actually do think: Nowhere does he...

It was literally presented as evidence in a rape trial. I don’t get what you’re saying here.

Who knows? If organization tends to oligarchy, disorganize. That’s probably a good start.

A direct quote from E Jean Carrol trial regarding the video: “He's telling you in his own words how he treats women. It's his modus operandi.” I don’t...

The same video was submitted as evidence in the E Jean Carrol trial to show a pattern of Trump’s behavior.

Yes, they appear to believe he grabs women by the pussy, that this video proves it, despite there being no admission nor no evidence that he does. Cle...

I agree with you there. But I think that's his point. I'm sure he is noting how this is giving ideological ammunition to the conservatives. After all,...

I said "cult member" in parody because someone else used it in reference to those who do not find any evidence that he assaulted someone. Nonetheless,...

Nope. I'm saying from the video that his actions do not match his boasts, and its stupid to believe that it does. He neither latches on to her like a ...

Not really the topic for En Vogue references, but I’m a big fan.

He was saying what you can get away when you’re a star, not what he does when he meets people. But it was in the context of meeting the woman standing...

Democracy is always the alternative. It’s just that we cannot reach it through collectivist calculations and means.

I think that is the key, in the end. Rather than wasting time devising a collectivist system that ought to deliver the rule of the people (an absurdit...

Many people did. Clearly he was wrong. I’m suggesting that democracy is impossible where certain organizational structures are concerned, for instance...

Exactly right. Democracy is only achievable outside of representational government. And I do not think we need to go backwards in order to remove the ...

You can watch it on video. The woman he was speaking about greets him at the door of the bus.

I don’t, save for its collectivism. Michels did, though. He was in the milieu.

He clearly admits in the first-person what he does. As for grabbing pussy, he’s clearly speaking in the second person. You have neither the incident n...

You can watch it on video directly after he was speaking about her. But I wouldn’t want you to betray your own senses.

Michels was an ardent socialist and believed Fascism would deliver democracy.

Good thinking. Just to be clear, I didn’t mean they favor oligarchy, but that their organization necessarily tends in that direction, no matter what t...

Claim: "Yeah that's her with the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful....

It’s true. I think he is the victim here and my bias is evident. But so is everyone else’s. This includes the DA’s and AG’s in New York and Georgia, o...

I don’t even know what you’re talking about. Perhaps you can show me.