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Tag Archives: state
The Verifiably Impossible
Day by day I find that our biggest problem as humanity is the disconnect between experience and the value we accord the verifiably impossible (see post). It’s funny that the biggest problem in creating a so-called better world – that … Continue reading
Posted in Quick Ideas
Tagged better world, causality, cause and effect, consequences, countries, dialectics, empiricism, ethics, history, Ideas, impossible, institutions, Kant, logical positivism, nations, notions, noumena, politics, power, state, wealth
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North Korea
Why are they the enemy? Why is it wrong when they test missiles? The act of developing missiles itself is not wrong, because we ourselves do it. But when a poor nation tests weapons, this is wrong. An example: less … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
Tagged crisis, destruction, fireworks, fourth of july, Georgia, gunpowder, invasion, Kim Jong-Il, Medvedev, missiles, north korea, nuclear, obama, peace, politics, president, Putin, russia, state, terrorism, treaty, war
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Marx On Dialectics
I really like this, taken from Marx’s Capital. “My dialectic method is not only different from the Hegelian, but is its direct opposite. To Hegel, the life-process of the human brain, i.e. the process of thinking, which, under the name … Continue reading
Posted in General Philosophies, Quotes
Tagged balance, brain, capital, change, contradictions, destiny, dialectics, Hegel, history, human, idea, Marx, marxism, nature, phenomena, Philosophy, process, revolution, state, understanding
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Errico Malatesta Part 1 – Anarchy
“Man, like all living beings, adapts himself to the conditions in which he lives, and transmits by inheritance his acquired habits. Thus, being born and having lived in bondage, being the descendant of a long line of slaves, man, when … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Tagged anarchy, authority, birth, bondage, capital, community, comprehend, conceptions, condition, conduct, doctor, employer, expression, function, government, human beings, institutions, Italy, labor, land, language, liberty, life, malatesta, master, meaning, order, prejudices, quote, slavery, social groups, solidarity, state, words, workman
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