Jordan~ wrote:... Seriously, though, this is based on a sample of less than a hundred people, so it's not to be taken seriously. The pleasurable take-away is that we're all respectably far-left, in the terms of contemporary representative democracy, in which being far-left doesn't imply much at all aside from a general attitude of scepticism towards neoliberalism.
r-enter-ested wrote:I am very curious about "neoliberalism". Please tell me your meaning of that word. I've never seen that.
r-enter-ested wrote:Thank you Jordan~. I asked as I need to know such things. I don't spend any brain-time with economics and I am not familiar with any formal anti-Keynesian efforts, though there is much anti-Keynesian opinion expressed in my moribund, Capitalistic country.
Jordan~ wrote:... neoliberalism: it's basically market imperialism imposed through debt dependency. ...
r-enter-ested wrote:Thank you Jordan~.
I have been spending most of my board-time at the Evolution Fairytale forum and there is a thread about the EU financial crisis named, "Democracy As The Cause For The Eu Crisis", which thread attempts, I believe, to blame the crisis on giving people a vote via some form of self-rule.Jordan~ wrote:... neoliberalism: it's basically market imperialism imposed through debt dependency. ...
Can you define your use of the term "market imperialism"? Does it mean, simply, any imposition upon a market or the specific imposition of debt-dependency?
Jordan~ wrote:A critique of the ideology of Smith's invisible hand. There is no invisible hand, there are many powerful and visible hands.
r-enter-ested wrote:For me, the results of Psychology and Sociology can provide framework for understanding human-nature and Philosophy provides a foundational framework for understanding everything we contemplate.
If we can't agree on this thing I call human-nature, then we have no basis to discuss subjects that should be informed by human-nature.
Do you agree?
Jordan~ wrote:r-enter-ested wrote:For me, the results of Psychology and Sociology can provide framework for understanding human-nature and Philosophy provides a foundational framework for understanding everything we contemplate.
If we can't agree on this thing I call human-nature, then we have no basis to discuss subjects that should be informed by human-nature.
Do you agree?
I'm convinced, from years of studying anthropology and archaeology, that there is no such thing as human nature, unless by 'human nature' you mean the bare, elemental necessities of having a human body: the need for shelter, food, to breathe, and so on. We've spent centuries trying to isolate the universal from the tremendous diversity of human behaviour, and failed again and again. What you're calling human nature, I would call a very historically limited and specific governmentality.
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