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ekklesiagora (62)in progressivism • 6 years ago
RE: Progress & Conservation: A Radical Centrist Manifesto
I'm more optimistic than that. Organized labor has disappeared, the proletariat as a political force is dead, but we are seeing the emergence of the precariat. I think Guy Standing and Murray…
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ekklesiagora (62)in politics • 6 years ago
RE: Social Democracy & Liberal Democracy
Yeah, Beto is more of a neoliberal, but neoliberal and social democratic ideology do have notable common features.
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ekklesiagora (62)in politics • 6 years ago
RE: Social Democracy & Liberal Democracy
The most talented musicians I know of are poor and have never "been discovered" because they don't have enough money to promote themselves. You, sir, are completely out of touch with reality. I'm…
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ekklesiagora (62)in politics • 6 years ago
RE: Social Democracy & Liberal Democracy
The main factor in going from rags to riches is not talent or effort but luck. That's why it's relatively rare. And, I agree that minimum wage is a bad way to regulate markets. A much better…
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ekklesiagora (62)in politics • 6 years ago
RE: Social Democracy & Liberal Democracy
It may be possible to survive in India because food is cheaper, but surviving isn't thriving. I remember having a conversation with a member of the Indian Orthodox Church years ago, discussing…
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ekklesiagora (62)in fiction • 6 years ago
RE: Atlas Shirked Social Responsibility
I think you have your formula backwards. It should be “keep paying, stop working.” Fully-Automated Luxury Geo-Distributist Social Democracy.
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ekklesiagora (62)in conservatism • 6 years ago
RE: Conservatism vs. Progressivism: Towards A Synthesis
For the record, I'm advocating a new synthesis that transcends conservatism and progressivism, recognizing the good points of both side and rejecting the bad points.
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ekklesiagora (62)in politics • 6 years ago
RE: What a joke
Social democracy was originally a socialist ideology. In fact, it was basically Marxist but with a democratic socialist basis. Thus, there was Fabian Socialism, Lange-Lerner model, etc. The Nordic…
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ekklesiagora (62)in politics • 6 years ago
RE: What a joke
You know, it is entirely possible to do social democracy within an anarchist framework. I'm sceptical of full anarchism, but left-libertarian ideas are mostly on point.
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ekklesiagora (62)in politics • 6 years ago
RE: What a joke
In a gift economy, the exchange isn't even trade. It's a asymmetrical exchange with a loose, non-binding, informal expectation that the other person will return the favor. It's not a contract or…
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ekklesiagora (62)in politics • 6 years ago
RE: What a joke
A market is a system of trade. Two people exchanging isn't necessarily a market. Informal exchange based on gift economy arrangements isn't technically a market. It's only a market when there's a…
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ekklesiagora (62)in politics • 6 years ago
RE: What a joke
Gift economies aren't markets, unless you are just defining all economies as markets. But then full communism is still a market. So, communism would be capitalism?
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ekklesiagora (62)in politics • 6 years ago
RE: What a joke
Fuck Marx. Das Kapital is garbage. I suggested a book by an anarchist and anthropologist, not a Marxist. Historically, primitive societies had gift economies, like the arrangements you might find…
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ekklesiagora (62)in politics • 6 years ago
RE: What a joke
You should read "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" by the anarchist David Graeber.
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ekklesiagora (62)in conservatism • 6 years ago
RE: Nostalgia For Traditional Conservatism
Let me clarify what I meant by that. So, classical conservatives were critical of capitalism (which they saw as a system of wage-slavery, with wealth concentrated at the top). Their critique…
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ekklesiagora (62)in conservatism • 6 years ago
RE: Nostalgia For Traditional Conservatism
Just to clarify, I'm an atheist. So, I don't subscribe to any of these schools of thought. Cernelius van Til, who is the most important Christian thinker of all time, in my opinion, really…
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ekklesiagora (62)in abortion • 6 years ago
RE: Against Anti-Abortionism
I'm familiar with Graeber's work. His latest book on "Bullshit Jobs" is on my current reading list. I would just say that "full-employment" is a relative term. It means that everyone that wants…
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ekklesiagora (62)in capitalism • 6 years ago
RE: Beyond the Capitalism/Socialism Dichotomy
That sort of property is just usufruct. That's not what libertarian socialists oppose. I am not a libertarian socialist. Libertarian socialism is an anarchist school of thought. I am a Georgist…
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ekklesiagora (62)in taxation • 6 years ago
RE: In Defense of Social Democracy: Contra Ron Paul & Conservatism
Social democracy and democratic socialism were historically one movement. The first social democratic party in Europe was Marxist. "Social democracy" and "democratic socialism" are pretty much used…
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ekklesiagora (62)in libertarianism • 6 years ago
RE: Free Trade vs. Laissez-Faire: Markets and Republicanism
Yes, that's why redistribution is necessary for markets to work well for everyone.
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