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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.if ‘materialism as matter-in-motion’ transcends philosophy and language, how do you articulate this truth without relying on the very...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.But you just made a foundational ontological claim - the philosopher determines social being by social consciousness, whereas the...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.I mean, this distinction/observation was made from within a marxist framework, but is there any way of proving it by stepping outside...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.Is there any way of proving that this distinction is the correct distinction, the correct duality?
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.There is no outside, that's the main point. You can only observe from within and even then only partially, because you always observe...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.In what sense?
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order."welfare support and healthcare" but these two things have nothing whatsoever to do with market mechanisms as such, it's a political...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.And what's the reason for this?
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.Is free market to blame for unsustainable population growth patterns? That's kind of everyones free choice, no?
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.What underlines this argument is simple self-referentiality or tautology - true communism hasn’t failed; it’s never been tried (except...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.Poverty rates have drastically fallen and the life expectency has risen absolutley everywhere in the last few decades, which isn't the...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.What actually brought, at least relativley speaking, some sort of prosperity to the non-Western world, was capitalist markets while all...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.Marx also predicted that workers living standarts will keep dropping and dropping until they reach such a miserable level that the...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.Any kind of eschatology, be it religious or secular, is pure nonsense, since everything that exists and will ever exist, is based on...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.I'm mentioning him because it's perfect for someone who feels mental and informational overload. It kind of helped me in a similar...