When Sam Harris released his new book about ‘Free Will’, it confirmed what I have been suspecting since he released a book about Utilitarianism - Sam Harris is taking an introductory Philosophy course. I proudly present the exclusive covers of his next two fascinating books on Philosophy.
10/10.
“So Tenzin, would you say that you and Chief Bei-Fong had a…
ROCKY RELATIONSHIP?”
“Well it definitely wasn’t a….
BREEZE”
“Y’know, I’m surprised Tenzin couldn’t handle me. They say I’ve got…
NERVES OF STEEL.”
“Well, I’d say you two have practically hit..
ROCK BOTTOM.”
“My daughter and Tenzin, together? I sure didn’t…
SEE THAT ONE COMING.”
((HOLY SPIRITS. TOPH IS THE BEST. HER GLASSES ARE ON UPSIDE DOWN HELP ))
This was my probably my favorite column to write so far.
My original title was “A modest proposal for when the smoke clears.” In the physical paper, they went with “Drones can better student health.” For the online version, apparently “Why not use drones to catch people ignoring the smoking ban?”
Friend of mine made this earlier today and I’m still laughing about it.
disclaimer: I’m not a Stirnerite.
Marxism - A materials list
In 1989 Robert Heilbroner, a distinguished quasi-marxist economist famously wrote in The New Yorker:
Less than 75 years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won… Capitalism organizes the material affairs of humankind more satisfactorily than socialism.
In a sense, to their lament, the marxists are not at all relevant. Here Rothbard prophetically addresses the confused intellectuals about what would be the next statist threat: “The coming struggle will be over interventionism, some kind of statism quasi-fascism… but the full socialism has had it.”
In 1992, Robert Heilbroner continued to explain the facts of life:
Capitalism has been as unmistakable a success as socialism has been a failure. Here is the part that’s hard to swallow. It has been the Friedmans, Hayeks, and von Miseses who have maintained that capitalism would flourish and that socialism would develop incurable ailments. All three have regarded capitalism as the ‘natural’ system of free men; all have maintained that left to its own devices capitalism would achieve material growth more successfully than any other system. From [my samplings] I draw the following discomforting generalization: The farther to the right one looks, the more prescient has been the historical foresight; the farther to the left, the less so.
And so it is with that I would like to introduce the following reading list for those who have asked several questions about Marxism and what it actually entails, since unfortunately they continue to stick around.
Readings:
- Ludwig von Mises - Marxism Unmasked , Socialism, Theory and History
- Yuri Maltsev - Requiem for Marx
- Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk - Karl Marx and the Close of His System
- Murray N. Rothbard - History of Economic Thought volume II
- Robert C. Tucker - Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx [a technical piece on the philosophical foundations of Marxism, not for beginners]
- Leszek Kolakowski - Main Currents of Marxism [A three volume history of Marxism, perhaps the definitive work on its history]
- Alexander Gray - The Socialist Tradition, The Development of Economic Doctrine, [Highly recommended works on the subject]
- James Billington - Fire on the Minds of Men
- H.B. Acton [Not Lord Acton] - The Illusion of Epoch
- Various Authors - A Plea for Liberty. [A series of papers by various authors critiquing the beginnings of Fabian socialism by author Bernard Shaw, also some basic critiques of socialism in general]
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe - A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism
- Friedrich Hayek - Intellectuals and Socialism
- David Gordon - Resurrecting Marx
Lectures:
- Williamson Evers - ‘Marx and the Organization of Labor Under Socialism’
- Richard Ebeling - ‘Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk’s Critique of Karl Marx’
- David Gordon - ‘Foundations of Marx’s Philosophy and Economics’
- Gary North - ‘The Marx Nobody Knows’
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe - ‘Marxist and Austrian Class Analysis’
- Ralph Raico - ‘Classical-Liberal Roots of Marxist Class Conflict’
- Yuri Maltsev - ‘Inflation and the Bolsheviks’
- David Osterfeld - ‘Marx and Mercantilism’
- Robert LeFevre - ‘Origins of Socialist Thought’, ‘Communist Manifesto’
- Rothbard - ‘Emergence of Communism’
- Jeffrey Herbener - ‘The Utopianism of Marx and Keynes’
- Paul Gottfried - ‘Bolshevism and Democratic Socialism’
Overall, a good list.
reblogging for later
Fuck the history booksxTranslation: Never apologize for using the popular ‘state’s rights’ defense for your obvious racism, and fuck what actually happened because you like your white supremacist version of history better.^Translation: I’m a dumb, neo-liberal reactionary that believes everything I read in books that were written by White people but also think everything White people do is racist.
I love how people say “the history books lie!” until it’s something that benefits them. The confederate flag isn’t and wasn’t about racism. It was about a lot more than that. Plantations were in the south but they were owned by the north. It was the north who profited from slavery even though it has been the south that has been branded racistpalooza. And this comes from a non-White person with a Confederate flag tattoo. Learn some actual history and stop believing every fucking thing you read in the history books. You are all gullible, and it’s quite pathetic that you can all be so easily led to believe a hundred year old lie. It’s easy to see how the government can get away with lying to us about reasons to go to war, fluoride, and AIDS when they can lie about something all you need to do to find the truth about is ask a non-White confederate the truth about the flag. Sheeple. All of you are sheeple.
If you believe I, a Puertorican man who comes from Black, White, and Taino bloodlines and is in a relationship with a White woman is racist, unfollow me now please. Thank you.
All I can really say about this is that I was raised in Virginia by Neo-Confederates and members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Revival of the Southern Armies, and the pastor of the ‘church’ I grew up in is the owner of Sprinkle Publications, the largest publisher of reprinted Confederate literature in the world.
If I met you, you would be the first PoC Confederate I’d ever met. I’ve met thousands of Confederates, the great majority of which bring loaded guns to church because they believe that Muslims are trying to bomb every Christian church in America.
I’ve been around legitimately organized Confederates my entire life. I’ve never met one that wasn’t white, and they have never even tried to cover up the racism.
Like when they had white speakers at the ‘conferences’ who said that the enslaved PoC’s from the past and anybody descended from them should bend over and kiss the ground for the privilege of being able to live in America.
Or like when they had white speakers at the ‘conferences’ who pointed to slavery in the Bible and explained, from a historical perspective, how slavery was spiritually legal and therefore the Confederacy was justified in fighting a war over it.
They didn’t even hide it. It was right there, in a room filled with 700-800 people who were white and not one person who wasn’t.
I’m not calling you racist, and I’m not trying to speak for your experiences. But those are my experiences with what happens when modern Confederates get organized.
You can be a “Puertorican man who comes from Black, White, and Taino bloodlines and is in a relationship with a White woman” and still be racist.
(Source: darth-vitus)
vindabinjy asked: I posted the rest of that article in a post following the on you asked me about. Hope that answers your question;)
Thanks! I have to say, after reading the article, I’m not yet convinced one must presuppose Christianity to do science, however. I think I’ll do a post on this topic.
