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The Prince by Machiavelli
June 16, 2019 at 02:13
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I haven't read Nussbaum's Frontiers of Justice, but I did read Creating Capabilities when it first came out, which outlines her approach to the Capabi...
June 16, 2019 at 02:09
is a specific tax policy sufficient for doing a socialism now? The article doesn't hide the percentage of national wealth owned by the state when home...
June 16, 2019 at 01:47
I didn't say that Norway was a socialist country. You stated, "socialism didn't work anywhere it was tried", and yet we have an example here of a coun...
June 16, 2019 at 01:41
lol who is this?
June 16, 2019 at 01:20
I told you that this reading of Marx stems primarily from David Harvey who has been teaching classes on Marx and Capital for around 40 years. Which is...
June 16, 2019 at 01:18
The students clearly articulated the issue they had with the food and it wasn't because they weren't "getting what they paid for". That's not even how...
June 16, 2019 at 01:01
But as I point out, many of these stories are actually fairly innocuous. In this example, minority college students from other countries were upset at...
June 15, 2019 at 16:15
I've been seriously studying philosophy for nearly a decade. @"Bitter Crank", who is over 70 years old, has been studying philosophy and Marxism in pa...
June 15, 2019 at 16:02
"I haven't read anything this guy has written, but tell me why my view of him is wrong".
June 15, 2019 at 04:16
The Communist Manifesto was a political pamphlet written during the political upheavals that spread across Europe in 1848. It was an attempt to both e...
June 15, 2019 at 04:08
To put it simply, Marx wrote how Capitalism tends, in various ways, towards crises, which of course is historically true. The instability of the syste...
June 15, 2019 at 03:16
anyone who says that Marx claimed Communism was inevitable - as if it can arrive fully formed without human agency - clearly hasn't read Marx.
June 15, 2019 at 02:54
Excluding wealth from home-ownership, Norway's government owns over 70% of the nation's entire wealth, which is notably more than the percentage of we...
June 15, 2019 at 02:29
Fantastic article summing up the road where a growing faction of right-wingers are heading, and the outright hypocrisy of their concerns and grievance...
June 15, 2019 at 02:06
I found this article to be particularly useful in understanding the nuances of 'cultural appropriation', and I strongly recommend reading it. The auth...
June 15, 2019 at 01:49
What an outrageously stupid article
June 06, 2019 at 02:32
Conservatives bemoan how we've strayed from a religious-based morality, but this assumes that religious traditions, laws, and practices from the past ...
June 06, 2019 at 02:19
I'm reading an article in favor of Conservative Democracy by Yoram Hazony, whose recent book The Virtue of Nationalism was named 2019 Conservative boo...
June 06, 2019 at 02:15
As the late Umberto Eco noted, Fascism is a synecdoche. A "fuzzy totalitarianism" with "no quintessence". This is useful in both theoretical conceptua...
June 06, 2019 at 01:45
Here, which percentage-wise is roughly the same as 393M civilian-owned guns out of 326M civilians.
June 05, 2019 at 23:33
Interesting, as I've seen this been passed around that she was granted state-sanctioned euthanasia, but that did seem decidedly questionable given tha...
June 05, 2019 at 03:04
There are approximately 120 privately owned guns per citizen, so remove 20% of that yadda yadda
June 05, 2019 at 01:29
Coincidentally, this excellent article on the hypocrisy and myopia around the IDW and 'free-speech' advocates was just published today.
June 05, 2019 at 01:27
Yeah I mean these supposedly zealous advocates for Free Speech(tm) either willfully turn a blind check towards censorship regarding issues they dislik...
June 04, 2019 at 04:41
If you are hand-wringing over the procedural elimination of gun rights whilst the GOP is moving forward to overturning Roe v. Wade then I don't know w...
June 04, 2019 at 04:20
I mean I don't care much what a comedian says, and "social attitudes" haven't been much of a concern for the GOP who passed massive tax cuts, pushed f...
June 04, 2019 at 03:18
The Australian government issued a mandatory buyback program and subsequently destroyed 20% of privately owned guns, which reduced the number of suici...
June 04, 2019 at 02:52
If you actually bothered to read the New York Times article I provided, you'll find studies/material showing that a comprehensive comparison across 10...
June 04, 2019 at 02:40
Ok I'm not denying that the causes of homicides are multivarient. I'm arguing that more gun ownership corresponds to more gun violence and that less g...
June 03, 2019 at 03:27
wow that's all pretty fucking stupid
June 03, 2019 at 01:57
I've shown multiple times that research on gun ownership routinely shows that more guns correlates to more gun violence. This analysis is true across ...
June 03, 2019 at 01:53
Yes the lavish wealth bestowed upon a select few wondrously strong individuals makes society "leaner and fitter". Opposition to this is anti-life yess...
June 03, 2019 at 01:27
I mean Tucker Carlson is an outright white nationalist so yeah he should be fired.
June 03, 2019 at 01:11
Two days ago an op-ed article in the NY Post argued that a "cesspool" of political correctness and "identity politics" have taken over US colleges and...
June 03, 2019 at 00:58
I'll take 'Things That Never Happened' for 1000, Alex
June 03, 2019 at 00:12
Pinker's modus operandi is take a typically a downward long term trend, and presenting the current state of this trend as acceptable, or that solution...
June 03, 2019 at 00:09
It's fairly deceitful to supply a percentage difference without simultaneously supplying the numbers you are comparing. The homicide rate is 0.81 in t...
June 02, 2019 at 20:14
Gotta hand it to Peterson for convincing a bunch of knuckle-dragging dipshits that he's a fierce proponent of free-speech when he's now hanging out wi...
June 02, 2019 at 05:06
Yes, the America has a deeply ingrained gun culture, exactly.
June 02, 2019 at 04:59
What you are attempting to describe here is more pointedly a mental healthcare issue, and as the Times article I linked to points out, mental health i...
June 02, 2019 at 04:43
See this is exactly what's I'm talking about. The responses here are so tortuously awful it's difficult to tell if this is just outright stupidity or ...
June 02, 2019 at 04:39
This is such a Steven Pinker-esque argument. The discussion is around the increase in right wing terrorism, and the charts provided clearly show this ...
June 02, 2019 at 03:53
thanks y'all
June 02, 2019 at 03:41
The main use of vehicles and knives is obviously not to kill, and guns are flexible in ways that cars are not, and deadlier in ways that knives are no...
June 02, 2019 at 03:41
Today is my birthday
June 01, 2019 at 14:34
It was pretty clear since Sandy that nothing will change for many years
June 01, 2019 at 05:10
Listen, I firmly believe everyone should be given a platform regardless of the content of their beliefs, so this means of course that, in addition to ...
May 31, 2019 at 04:34
Everyone shut up and watch Chernobyl
May 31, 2019 at 02:58
Probably important to link to the full article within which that chart can be found? Additional graphs and commentary point out that left-wing terrori...
May 31, 2019 at 02:45