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by smhost 6y ago
Then what's your point? actual undergrad philosophy textbooks don't "shy away of critique and dispute" either. is your complaint that russell's idiosyncratic views are not foregrounded enough to your liking?
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> It's usually frowned upon and recommended to avoid for Philosophy students exactly for the same reasons I think it's one of the best books ever written: > It doesn't shy away of critique and dispute This is nonsense.
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> Sorry, when I say Eurocentric, I include the UK. That's my whole disagreement. The analytic-continental divide is a split within the western world. But you present it as if the non-eurocentric world is more conducive to the contin
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> Outside the Eurocentric philosophy bubble, it can be harder to disentangle philosophy from religion, culture, and myth, but that's part of the fun. maggie thatcher didn't say "all problems come from outside europe".
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here's a good introduction to fascist operating systems: https://vastabrupt.com/2018/10/31/gender-acceleration/
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the labor theory of value isn't a theory of morality. if you don't believe that exploitation is wrong, then you're free to use the LTV to maximize exploitation, which is what many ex-communists have done to great success in p
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> ignores the value of capital and organisation it doesn't. that capital was built by labor.
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well for one example, what was/is happening in xinjiang is happening all over the countryside (and outside the country too) in less strong-handed forms. children are being aggressively funneled into education pipelines and entire villa
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https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10137.html
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India can try to join later if it changes its mind. RCEP puts a lot of pressure on India either way though. It's kind of interesting how India decided that free trade with 30% of the world is less valuable than protecting its manufactu
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You're right, abolition of slavery won't be achieved until settler colonial slave states like the united states are dismantled and replaced with a fair society. However, the abolitionists did accomplished many great notable things
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you can't abolish half of a thing. abolishing half of slavery still leaves you with slavery. you're confused about some basic terms here. and if you're using a broad enough notion of divisiveness, then anything is divisive, i
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i mean again, advocating for abolition isn't a policy proposal. take for example angela davis, the most prominent prison abolitionist today. she says in this interview ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3q_qV5mHg0 ) that
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by smhost 6y ago
you're talking about the covid relief package that pelosi refused to pass because it would've helped trump's chances at reelection.
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if you read past the headline, the actual policy it proposes is to reduce the number of police and cut the budget.
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democratic voters tragically did respond to the fearmongering of establishment propagandists, but the problem for them isn't in the electoral sphere. it's on the ground where people are facing mass evictions, a mental health and s
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"abolish the police" isn't a policy
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> more progressive policies were divisive even within the party divisive within the Party, but not among the constituency.
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> We are actively trying to decrease engagement with misinformation and outrage Can you talk more about this? On its face, this seems like an explicitly anti-leftist position. Some philosophers even claim that the role of the politica
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because this post is about american immigration. i'm specifically challenging a comment that implies that immigration has been good for america.
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In "As We Go Green", the guy who founded Formula E made it seem like there was some internal politics among FIA leadership that was resisting green tech for whatever reason, and now that Formula E is a thing, it doesn't make
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Each of those moves to the left were made possible only by a very angry and mobilized coalition of communists, socialists, trade unionists, and other desperate working-class people. Nothing like that exists currently, and also we never had
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That was long before capitalism had corroded and hollowed out all of our public institutions. I'm referring to what some people mean when they say that we changed from being a society that has markets to being a market society. If you
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The problem is that when you create an international coalition powerful enough to control capital and to go against its logic, you've built a communism. Under that system, the common ideological space (what yuval noah harai calls &quot
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What about a small industrial society?
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> One of the most important questions in philosophy is "compared to what?" Important compared to what? It's easy to say that any changes to the world will be imperfect and will have murder, theft, and discrimination, but w
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a country so free that it's functionally incapable of defending against bioterrorism
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The abstract expressionism of today is definitely anti-class conscious identity politics. A "communist" today is more likely to rattle off quotes from a hardline liberal ideologist like Judith Butler than to actually understand a
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We should read the opposite of what they're saying to be true: they already have our fingerprints, and they want the rest of our hands.
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I wouldn't lump in the whole of the green movement, but corporate greenwashing and anti-materialist organizations like XR are definitely a big challenge for climate activists.

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