Political Philosophy
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Dostoevsky wasn’t always a genius writer — he used to be a radical socialist Then he got sentenced to death Staring down the barrel of a gun, he had a sudden awakening He denoun...
🧵As we're watching Marxists try to co-opt the word "Democracy," I recall Dewey's "Liberalism and Social Action," where he details how "liberal" was dialectically transformed from a...
Intellectual movements (what currently exists here) influence political movements… they do not become political movements. The promotion of pure-thinkers into places of power is a...
In a couple of pages in “Birth of Biopolitics,” Foucault demolishes the idea of liberal socialism (of socialism as the means by which liberalism’s promises are truly and finally fu...
Niccolò Machiavelli, the Renaissance political philosopher, is best known for his work "The Prince," in which he offers advice to rulers on how to gain and maintain power. Here a...
My most honest political opinion is that true freedom doesn't exist, is not desired by most people, and at best you can choose the level and style of government overreach that you'...
@_benoux_ @LughSpear This goes into the core of my civilism theory. See point 2, and point 1. 2) The Humble Ethical State: by making the state a moral entity, referred to as ‘we’...
1. Libertarians will never be successful because their ideas are a form of magical thinking. They believe that if we remove all restrictions on people’s lives that society will mag...
Feminism is a nation-killer because the whole point of it is to extract labor from the woman that should be going into raising children and redirect it to various useless parasites...
Liberalism is Female Nature Liberalism is female nature, because liberal means do what you want, children like to do as they please, and women are childish. Freedom also means a...
Everything a smart leftist says breaks down to just Communism. "By what right do you deserve your family home?" At some level, you HAVE to just be ready to say: "Because rules ar...
H.L. Mencken explains why democracy is doomed in 10 points: 1. People don't want freedom but safety: "The average man wants the peace of a hog in a comfortable sty." 2. Democracy...
"Communism differs from all previous movements because it overturns the basis of all previous relations of production and interaction, and for the first time, consciously treats al...
If your only ethics are Foucault & Fanon, you’re wholly unequipped to make the distinctions necessary to recognize justice & uphold dignity in relation to political violence. Just...
You always count on normie libertarians to have the most embarrassing take imaginable. https://t.co/q4lav0Uo9U
"Liberalism Against Itself" by Samuel Moyn has a chapter on Hanna Arendt - who I hate the most. It's aptly titled "White Freedom." Here are some good passages from it: "But even...
Moldbug’s Political Theology: The framework for Moldbugs philosophy can be found in Carl Schmitt’s book “Political Theology.” Many of the key concepts therein inform Moldbug’s per...
"Liberalism, no less than socialism, feudalism, or any other social order, is a global dispensation—that is, a way of life that excludes other ways of life. It does no good for the...
LEE KUAN YEW - In His Own Words 🇸🇬 Compilation Thread of Short Clips of Singapore’s Founder Lee Kuan Yew on his Political Philosophy 🧵 “Whoever governs Singapore must have that...
A lot of good people on the anti-Left side of things, especially those influenced by thinkers associated with the Mises Institute don’t understand why people like myself continue t...
John Gray's 'Post-Liberalism' is 30 years old. I'm not sure if there's been a retrospective, although it looks like his new book tackles the same question. https://t.co/KwvMxxPYZT
(1/5) Since Sanjukta claims to be a “classical liberal (although I doubt she knows what that means🤣)”, let’s look at some of the renowned classical liberal ideologues and their tho...
In Liberal political philosophy, "person" is a central category based on which the theory of justice is formulated. But this "person" is devoid of any content, whether its ethnici...
1/10 Nurettin Topçu [1909–1975] was a Turkish 🇹🇷 religious-conservative thinker who studied philosophy in France 🇫🇷 during the ‘20s/‘30s & came back critical of Kemalist reforms f...
