"The examples of culture: childrearing, education, leisure, family and social relations, art etc. are by itself not politicized unless you say that every human action is a political action" Well,...
First, culture is not in any way a necessarily political phenomenonon. The examples of culture: childrearing, education, leisure, family and social relations, art etc. are by itself not politiciz...
But have always been political. Mostly, the politics of these matters have been relatively conservative.This is (a) true, and (b) one of the most understated points I r...
Well, I've written all my follow-up posts now, so I'll just sign off to this first thread with a final comment. The problem with Joseph McCarthy's comment, just above, seems pretty obvious to me:...
I agree with the proposition that bringing up hisotrical quotes of one's policial preferences does not necessarily imply the reality, which is one of the cornerstones of this long argument. But t...
Good. Reality wins again. But your argument was that disputing how far Nazis were right-wing was like arguing whether polar bears are or are not white. That is, if I may say so, on first inspecti...
engels: are you denying the existence of brown bears, which are neither black nor white? Or pandas which are black in some parts and white in others? No.
This discussion is still vitiated by the failure to include the imperialist dimension. All the nations commonly agreed in the thirties and forties to be fascist were engaged in the seizure of ter...
Krugman's data aren't about Australia, though.
This thread, however, deals with the question of whether USAian patterns always apply to the non-trivial proportion of the world outside the US.http://en.wikipedia.org/w...
Well no Stephen, engels is just saying that polar bears are white. He's not saying that all bears are either black or white.
Collin, engels That seems true for the USA, a remarkably bipolar society in at least one sense. This thread, however, deals with the question of whether USAian patterns always apply to the non-tr...
Yep, see here: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/rand-paul-and-the-empty-box/?_r=1
You can actually empirically test the importance left/right distinction, you know: you get a whole bunch of people's political opinions on all sorts of issues, run regression analyses to see what...
-It takes an extraordinary effort of bad faith to have a long chin-stroking argument about whether or not polar bears are white. -Unless of course, you don't believe that black v. white may not b...