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The Coming to Be of Society (Revolutionary Aristotelianism, Part 2)
The whole point of Aristotle’s science, his account of causation, really turns on this inclusion of purpose and meaning. These are absolutely banished from consideration in modern science.
The false red flag: a despotic dead end
Bakunin also answered a defence of Marxism that is still being peddled today, namely that in theory its authoritarian revolutionary state will eventually disappear, allowing the final liberation of the people in a free socialist society.
The false red flag: a repugnant racket
The specific role of the Bolsheviks was to seize power, crush the genuine popular revolt and ensure that Russia was turned into an authoritarian centralised state – under the ultimate control of Wall Street Financiers.
Goods, Desire, and Community
If you want to actually achieve good things together, you can’t shirk the question of what is actually good. It is good to educate your children, or it isn’t. It’s good to pollute the planet to the point of uninhabitability or it isn’t.
The false red flag: industrial slavery
Lenin rejected the idea that the rural commune could serve as the basis for communism and that Russia could take an alternative path that avoided Western-style industrial development.
Why Democracy Leads to Tyranny
Western democracies are what can be called soft totalitarian states in contrast to the more brutal manifestations of totalitarianism past.
The false red flag: lies and repression
It was the Bolsheviks themselves who were the real counter-revolutionaries, the real betrayers of the people’s movement, simply taking advantage of its revolutionary energy to grab power.
Our Quest for Freedom: Defending
Sufficient numbers will have to have realised what this world has turned into, remembered what it should have been and started consciously yearning for what it could once more become.
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