All the recent pandemics scares have been that I agree. Initially I took a similar position to yours in private conversation. China & Cuba convince me otherwise. "Lies, damn lies & statistics".... You still haven't addressed the actions and responses of socialist states to this thing. Are they part...

What exactly is your argument Chlamor?

Again, pertinent questions. GIGO, apples & oranges, modeling itself ain't the last word in anything. OTOH, the writer makes the blythe assumption that governments are actually trying to do their best for their people and we know that is seldom if ever the case for non-socialists. That ain't class a...

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Hegel's Philosophy of Right is no big mystery, even wikipedia mostly gets the idea: The Philosophy of Right (as it is usually called) begins with a discussion of the concept of the free will and argues that the free will can only realize itself in the complicated social context of property rights an...

Re: Edward Gibbon. He directly tells us that he has NO theory of history: [H]istory [...] is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — Gibbon, Edward (1872). The decline and fall of the Roman Empire. 1 (Chandos ed.). London: Frederick Warne & Co. p....

2. On the other hand, once productivity is raised then the new higher level of production defines how much labor is socially necessary (eg if you speed up production from 500 widgets to 1000 widgets per hour, then 1000 widgets now constitutes 1 hour of value). The claim here is that you can only in...

So, I'm not working (don't worry, I'm a lucky one) and my last semester of undergrad is basically cancelled. Gonna have a lot of free time. Any good recommendations? P.S. Hope all is well on everyone's end. I've been reading a bunch of papers on arxiv. That lead me to a book called the The Dragon a...

Marx sums up his conclusions from the revolution of 1848-51, on the subject of the state we are concerned with, in the following argument contained in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte: "But the revolution is throughgoing. It is still journeying through purgatory. It does its work methodic...

I'm not sure any of that rises to the level of analysis. All "misleadership" talk (and note that it tends to be exclusively pointed at blacks in many/most cases) rings hollow when it is centered on workers picking the wrong bourgeoisie candidate (and no one should be kidding themselves about Bernie ...