January 26, 2012
Adam Smith, an Enlightenment thinker, thought of humans as fundamentally self-interested as contrasted to Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes thought that selfishness worked as a kind of glue for society. His idea was that people are selfish; fundamentally concerned only with themselves. This meant that each person wanted to thrive based on their personal wants and needs [...]
Tags: adam smith, capitalism, karl marx, socialism
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January 4, 2010
After listening to some of the tea party people blog about the government and liberals being fascist, it occurred to me that one possible source for this could be the notion that what they perceive as a unilateral intervention by the government into the private sector is what they deem `fascist’ (I have dealt [...]
Tags: fascism, free market, intervention
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December 23, 2009
There is nothing inherently evil about government and nothing inherently good about private business. Those that would insist on either can only do so based on dogmatic, immutable and therefore, un-falsifiable, ideological grounds. Once an ideology is calcified into a meta-ideology of this sort no contrarian, empirical event can dislodge it. A meta-ideology can [...]
Tags: conservative, free market
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December 22, 2009
The US is already a mix of socialism and capitalism. If socialism is always evil then I guess not only are you against the recent government action to buy into private banks and bail out the economy (by the socialist Bush administration) but you also want to get rid of social security, Medicare, Medicaid and [...]
Tags: capitalism, socialism
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December 22, 2009
“Perception is everything” appears to be the organizing paradigm of modern political campaigns in the US. Technology and capital have combined into the perfect storm for managing perception. Perceptions thrust into the early years of technology kept the Republicans largely out of office for decades after FDR and the Great Depression. Republicans were portrayed as [...]
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December 14, 2009
What is it we do not like about Marxism? Is it the lack of motivation to create real value? What is the practical difference between a government based economy and a credit based economy? When money is free, money has no value. If Capitalism or Marxism is in the business of bankrupting value there is [...]
Tags: capitalism, marxism
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