jondwhite
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Does dialectics stand in contrast to positivism? Wikipedia suggests Karl Popper was a critic of positivism. Can you be a positivist and agree with the WSM?
Why would an emancipated worker with no pre-existing conditions take massive risk and consent to test a drug? They wouldn’t all be Johnny Knoxvilles would they?
Apart from the critique of communism as empirically falsified, was Popper right that dialectics is bunkum?
More specifically, is it accurate to describe socialist society as the abolition of private property? What is the response to depictions of socialism as collectivisation? What is the response to the idea that socialism only abolishes land as a category of private property? And everything else flows from the abolition of land as a special kind of property. I think these are distinct but related questions.
Neil Faulkner How History Works http://youtu.be/cCRE-4RrAiEhttp://www.counterfire.org/index.php/theory/37-theory/15523-marx-101-how-does-history-work
Just out of interest I checked how many subscribers various subreddits had23,153 – r/Anarchism15,111 r/Socialism2,575 – r/AlltheLeft1,392 – r/Communism837 – r/Marxism836 – r/DebateaCommunist672 – r/Chomsky623 – r/LibertarianSocialism544 – r/Anarchist303 – r/Communist162 – r/Socialist42 – r/LibertarianMarxism20 – r/LibertarianCommunism
reddit DebateaCommunist is inviting suggestions for new guidelineshttp://www.reddit.com/r/DebateaCommunist/comments/pviwt/hi_rdebateacommunist_its_time_for_another_chat_as/
I never realised quite how damning Ken was of the SWP until I watched this World in Action documentary (from 1993) last night. http://vimeo.com/36763181If indeed they back Ken, members might well ask why they should support someone who vehemently opposes them.
His speaking style is very boring with some notable exceptions such as his debate with William Buckley and his comments on Leninism in response to a Leninist.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYlMEVTa-PIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQsceZ9skQI
