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I refuse to believe that our only choices as a species is between the very worst of libertarian capitalist excess and the very worst of Stalinism. I firmly rej
by Ensorceled 11y ago
I refuse to believe that our only choices as a species is between the very worst of libertarian capitalist excess and the very worst of Stalinism.
I firmly reject the idea that nothing else can work or should even be tried.
- taneq 11y agoWhat, you're saying that excluding the middle ground is a fallacy? By Jove, I think you may be onto something!
- Ensorceled 11y agoSigh, unfortunately this fallacy is alive and well as the OC clearly indicates.
- carapat_virulat 11y agoThe middle ground doesn't exist in itself. To have a middle ground you need to have a previous political position from which you can measure it, the illusion is believing that you can find a universal ideological space from which you can map the rest of ideological positions. That is, when you take a certain political position that not only determines what measures you want to apply, it also determines how you see every other political position. The center is not the same center for a conservative and for a left-winger.
- Ensorceled 11y agoThere is a vast middle ground between tyrannical communism and libertarian capitalism, especially considering how similar those political systems are on many axes. The fallacy that there is a 'center' is just as bad as the fallacy of there only being a left and a right. Politics and economics are far more complicated than a continuum represented by a one dimensional line.