Think about this: We know the name of the philosopher of capitalism, Adam Smith. We also know the name of the philosopher of Marxism, Karl Marx. So, quick: What is the name of the philosopher of fascism? Yes, exactly. You donâ(TM)t know. Virtually no one knows. This is not because he doesnâ(TM)t exist, but because the political left â" which dominates academia, the media and Hollywood â" had to get rid of him to avoid confronting fascism and Nazismâ(TM)s unavoidable leftist orientation.
So letâ(TM)s meet the man himself, Giovanni Gentile, who may be termed fascismâ(TM)s Karl Marx. Gentile was, in his day, which is the first half of the 20th century, considered one of Europeâ(TM)s leading philosophers. A student of Hegel and Bergson and director of the Encyclopedia Italiana, Gentile was not merely a widely published and widely influential thinker; he was also a political statesman who served in a variety of important government posts. How, then, has such a prominent and influential figure vanished into the mist of history?
For Gentile, people by themselves are too slothful and inert to form genuine communities by themselves; they have to be mobilized. Here, too, many modern progressives would agree. Speaking in terms with which both Obama and Hillary would sympathize, Gentile emphasized that leaders and organizers are needed to direct and channel the will of the people.
Gentile was, in fact, a lifelong socialist. Like Marx, he viewed socialism as the sine qua non of social justice, the ultimate formula for everyone paying their âoefair share.â For Gentile, fascism is nothing more than a modified form of socialism, a socialism arising not merely from material deprivation but also from an aroused national consciousness, a socialism that unites rather than divides communities.
Gentileâ(TM)s philosophy closely parallels that of the modern American left. Consider the slogan unveiled by Obama at the 2012 Democratic Convention: âoeWe belong to the government.â That apotheosis of the centralized state is utterly congruent with Gentileâ(TM)s thinking. Only Gentile would have provided a comprehensive philosophical defense that the Democrats didnâ(TM)t even attempt. In many respects, Gentile provides a deeper and firmer grounding for modern American progressivism than anyone writing today.
That's not what wet-work means. Doing things by computer is specifically not wet-work. The ridiculous Russophobic paranoia right now is approaching McCarthyism levels. People are seeing TEH ROOSHINS in their sleep and in their children's schools. It's not healthy, this level of irrationality.
There are tons of restrictions on who can wire money where. You need permission, proof you've paid tax on it, it can't be too much, there is an annual limit for every person, and so on. It's not just like in any other country.
What familiarity? The term is only in use in New York City. This is more a case of embarrassing provincialism, not cultural appropriation. America is much larger than a single city.
Bitcoin has gone from funny oddity to actual threat. China very tightly controls its money, because if it allowed free movement of money, the country would very quickly find itself broke. Nobody keeps their assets in yuan who has a choice. As a way to get money out of China, bitcoin is now a threat to the Communist Party. When nations are taking you as a serious threat, that's a genuine achievement, and I'd like to offer my congratulations.
We all saw what Google does to people who put their real names on dissenting opinions. The GP comment is correct to post anonymously. Non-anonymous speech has real consequences. Reaction by Googlers to this kind of wrongthink:
"Do you understand that at this point, I could not in good conscience assign anyone to work with you? I certainly couldn't assign any women to deal with this, a good number of the people you might have to work with may simply punch you in the face, and even if there were a group of like-minded individuals I could put you with, nobody would be able to collaborate with them."
This sure is an inconvenient story, isn't it? Google, that solidly left-wing company, so left that they fired a man for a very well written and calm critique of Googleâ(TM)s policies (with rather decent suggestions to improve things, mind you). He argued that Google was becoming an "ideological echo chamber" where right-of-center views weren't welcome. He was dismissed for creating a hostile work environment, proving the point. Now Google is being sued for not being far enough left. Google may well end up arguing the exact same points the memo author made in court. I'm making the popcorn, this is going to be a great show.
You realize you're just making young people more and more curious about what's in these forbidden books? Trying to portray people as "colossal asses" looks like you're trying way too hard to persuade people not to read. I'm no libertarian, but the fact is, Ayn Rand's books make effective arguments against self-destructive altruism, the kind we're seeing way too much of nowadays. The arguments are good ones and make sense, which is why you're trying to use emotional arguments to persuade young people from exposing themselves to them. They might be convinced, you see.
People who are honest about learning want to expose themselves to all points of view. Even the wrong ones. Especially those. Otherwise you end up in an ideological echo chamber, and that is a one-way ticket to fascism.
Al Gore In 2005: "Within the decade, there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro." Kilimanjaro In 2015
Now riddle me this: If global warming is such an existential threat that we need need to get as much clean energy online as quickly as possible, why did the Obama administration put steep tariffs on Chinese solar panels?
That's what they said about the Native Americans. You'd think the fact that you're literally advocating genocide would bother you, but no, here we are.
Well, you were doing great before you injected unfounded Russophobia into your comment. Seriously, WTF? TEH ROOSHINS under your bed? Make sure and check before you go to sleep tonight. You might find some ROOSHINS and have to shoot them with your gun like a good American tool.
A lot of socialists trumpeted the dignity of laborers. Who could disagree with sentiments like this?
We call ourselves a workers' party because we want to rescue the word work from its current definition and give it back its original meaning. Anyone who creates value is a creator, that is, a worker. We refuse to distinguish kinds of work. Our only standard is whether the work serves the whole, or at least does not harm it, or if it is harmful. Work is service. If it works against the general welfare, then it is treason against the fatherland.
Marxist nonsense claimed to free labor, yet it degraded the work of its members and saw it as a curse and disgrace. It can hardly be our goal to abolish labor, but rather to give new meaning and content. The worker in a capitalist state - and that is his deepest misfortune - is no longer a living human being, a creator, a maker.
He has become a machine. A number, a cog in the machine without sense or understanding. He is alienated from what he produces. Labor is for him only a way to survive, not a path to higher blessings, not a joy, not something in which to take pride, or satisfaction, or encouragement, or a way to build character.
We are a workers' party because we see in the coming battle between finance and labor the beginning and the end of the structure of the twentieth century. We are on the side of labor and against finance. Money is the measuring rod of liberalism, work and accomplishment that of the socialist state. The liberal asks: What are you? The socialist asks: Who are you? Worlds lie between.
So, all of the blame when things go wrong, but no credit for realizing it was wrong and changing. Wow. So in other words, there is zero incentive to do the right thing.
And while it was great that it was stopped, that doesn't mean we should applaud "white men" generally as having accomplished this.
But it was entirely white men who did this. 100%. I think you just have a lot of racial hate and don't want to admit your enemies ever did anything good. It would be like saying Hitler's anti-smoking or anti-animal cruelty laws were a good thing.
It's commonplace in other parts of the world, China, India, Philippines, etc. They'll not only inject ads into your browsing session, but on mobile they'll put one of those Apple-style floating circles in the corner, to "help" you.
Much like Google removed its "Don't be Evil" motto when they rebranded into Alphabet, Slashdot removed the "News for Nerds" motto some years ago. Now it's just a property of dice.com or whoever the hell owns it now.
You can see on the front page, comments barely go into triple digits any more. Slashdot is a shell, and I don't know why I keep coming here. Habits are hard to break.
So the Civil War wasn't fought to end slavery? 300,000 white men died so the slaves could be free. The Royal Navy put an end to the slave trade on the high seas.
Sure, RSS is great for keeping up with your latest sites. Especially those low-volume sites that might publish an article every few months, and you forgot that it existed. But the real joy of reading by RSS is the lack of formatting. No more "read more" buttons, no more in-your-face javascript popup, no more loading 24 trackers. Just the article with photos.
In fact, I'm surprised that RSS hasn't been removed by the hipster designer crowd for being obsolete (because it's old, not because it's useless) and failing to track engagement or whatever. Frankly, I think they've forgotten that it's on their sites.
It's parochial when you're not aware of common phrases in use. Steers and queers is old as hell. Original dialogue? R. Lee Ermey wrote most of his own dialogue in that movie. It's famous! Kubrick was such a control freak but he let him run wild because he was so good at it. You're not really aware of the world outside your bubble, are you?
Who doesn't get the giggles when you see that "Democracy dies in darkness" masthead slogan? LOL. As if they're on the side of the people or something? The deplorables? A laughable concept. Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' personal blog.
The saying is old as the hills. Where do you think R. Lee Ermey found out about it in the first place? Jeez people think it didn't exist until it was in a movie. So parochial.
Any new bus battery factory would be vehemently opposed by environmentalists whose goal would be to harass, file frivolous lawsuits, and generally make the whole thing too expensive and too much trouble. The loser is America, but since the entire concept of "America" is problematic, I don't think it's going to change.
That's pretty insightful. I didn't think about shutting off all the recharge stations in an area experiencing anti-government protests, but that's a good idea. China has already cut off access to Alipay online payments for trivial issues. Without cash, you'd be helpless. Same thing without recharge stations for electric vehicles.
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That's not what wet-work means. Doing things by computer is specifically not wet-work. The ridiculous Russophobic paranoia right now is approaching McCarthyism levels. People are seeing TEH ROOSHINS in their sleep and in their children's schools. It's not healthy, this level of irrationality.
There are tons of restrictions on who can wire money where. You need permission, proof you've paid tax on it, it can't be too much, there is an annual limit for every person, and so on. It's not just like in any other country.
What familiarity? The term is only in use in New York City. This is more a case of embarrassing provincialism, not cultural appropriation. America is much larger than a single city.
When the west borrows from other cultures, it is cultural appropriation.
When other cultures borrow from the west, it is cultural imperialism.
Bitcoin has gone from funny oddity to actual threat. China very tightly controls its money, because if it allowed free movement of money, the country would very quickly find itself broke. Nobody keeps their assets in yuan who has a choice. As a way to get money out of China, bitcoin is now a threat to the Communist Party. When nations are taking you as a serious threat, that's a genuine achievement, and I'd like to offer my congratulations.
This sure is an inconvenient story, isn't it? Google, that solidly left-wing company, so left that they fired a man for a very well written and calm critique of Googleâ(TM)s policies (with rather decent suggestions to improve things, mind you). He argued that Google was becoming an "ideological echo chamber" where right-of-center views weren't welcome. He was dismissed for creating a hostile work environment, proving the point. Now Google is being sued for not being far enough left. Google may well end up arguing the exact same points the memo author made in court. I'm making the popcorn, this is going to be a great show.
You realize you're just making young people more and more curious about what's in these forbidden books? Trying to portray people as "colossal asses" looks like you're trying way too hard to persuade people not to read. I'm no libertarian, but the fact is, Ayn Rand's books make effective arguments against self-destructive altruism, the kind we're seeing way too much of nowadays. The arguments are good ones and make sense, which is why you're trying to use emotional arguments to persuade young people from exposing themselves to them. They might be convinced, you see.
People who are honest about learning want to expose themselves to all points of view. Even the wrong ones. Especially those. Otherwise you end up in an ideological echo chamber, and that is a one-way ticket to fascism.
Al Gore In 2005: "Within the decade, there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro." Kilimanjaro In 2015
Now riddle me this: If global warming is such an existential threat that we need need to get as much clean energy online as quickly as possible, why did the Obama administration put steep tariffs on Chinese solar panels?
That's what they said about the Native Americans. You'd think the fact that you're literally advocating genocide would bother you, but no, here we are.
Well, you were doing great before you injected unfounded Russophobia into your comment. Seriously, WTF? TEH ROOSHINS under your bed? Make sure and check before you go to sleep tonight. You might find some ROOSHINS and have to shoot them with your gun like a good American tool.
-- "Those Damned Nazis", by Joseph Goebbels
So, all of the blame when things go wrong, but no credit for realizing it was wrong and changing. Wow. So in other words, there is zero incentive to do the right thing.
And while it was great that it was stopped, that doesn't mean we should applaud "white men" generally as having accomplished this.
But it was entirely white men who did this. 100%. I think you just have a lot of racial hate and don't want to admit your enemies ever did anything good. It would be like saying Hitler's anti-smoking or anti-animal cruelty laws were a good thing.
It's commonplace in other parts of the world, China, India, Philippines, etc. They'll not only inject ads into your browsing session, but on mobile they'll put one of those Apple-style floating circles in the corner, to "help" you.
Much like Google removed its "Don't be Evil" motto when they rebranded into Alphabet, Slashdot removed the "News for Nerds" motto some years ago. Now it's just a property of dice.com or whoever the hell owns it now.
You can see on the front page, comments barely go into triple digits any more. Slashdot is a shell, and I don't know why I keep coming here. Habits are hard to break.
We already hate the deplorables, didn't you get the memo?
So the Civil War wasn't fought to end slavery? 300,000 white men died so the slaves could be free. The Royal Navy put an end to the slave trade on the high seas.
Sure, RSS is great for keeping up with your latest sites. Especially those low-volume sites that might publish an article every few months, and you forgot that it existed. But the real joy of reading by RSS is the lack of formatting. No more "read more" buttons, no more in-your-face javascript popup, no more loading 24 trackers. Just the article with photos.
In fact, I'm surprised that RSS hasn't been removed by the hipster designer crowd for being obsolete (because it's old, not because it's useless) and failing to track engagement or whatever. Frankly, I think they've forgotten that it's on their sites.
It's parochial when you're not aware of common phrases in use. Steers and queers is old as hell. Original dialogue? R. Lee Ermey wrote most of his own dialogue in that movie. It's famous! Kubrick was such a control freak but he let him run wild because he was so good at it. You're not really aware of the world outside your bubble, are you?
Who doesn't get the giggles when you see that "Democracy dies in darkness" masthead slogan? LOL. As if they're on the side of the people or something? The deplorables? A laughable concept. Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' personal blog.
Do men's shelters take them?
LOL just joking there's no such thing as a men's shelter.
The saying is old as the hills. Where do you think R. Lee Ermey found out about it in the first place? Jeez people think it didn't exist until it was in a movie. So parochial.
Any new bus battery factory would be vehemently opposed by environmentalists whose goal would be to harass, file frivolous lawsuits, and generally make the whole thing too expensive and too much trouble. The loser is America, but since the entire concept of "America" is problematic, I don't think it's going to change.
That's pretty insightful. I didn't think about shutting off all the recharge stations in an area experiencing anti-government protests, but that's a good idea. China has already cut off access to Alipay online payments for trivial issues. Without cash, you'd be helpless. Same thing without recharge stations for electric vehicles.