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@zompist

Thanks for your answer.

Was that avocado reference intentional?

@Raphael

Note that in 20th century command economies the planning was done by hand while nowdays we have powerful computers with stuff like AI and Big Data

(Non economist here) In short - it's a theory developed by Mises and Hayek saying that a centrally planned economy can never match the efficiency of a market one because due to lack of price signals, the central planners will never be able to correctly determine the demand for each product, and they...

What might a mix of Confucianism, Mohism and Legalism look like? I guess a mix of Confucianism and Legalism might well look a lot like traditional Western right-wing politics, but I don't know enough about Mohism to know how it might fit into that. Here are the basics: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi...

What might a mix of Confucianism, Mohism and Legalism look like?

Being the global hegemon doesn't mean running everything. Even at the height of US power in the 1990s the US didn't actually run the whole world. But it was the strongest power by far. Preserving the "unipolar moment" has been the goal of every US administration since then. It's the same f...

Trump is (sadly) as much an imperialist as any other POTUS before him. He simply realizes that the world has changed and the US cannot afford to fight Russia and China at the same time. So he wants to roll up the US pet project in Europe and redirect the resources to fight China. If the US is lucky,...

For the economic elites Fascism has one big advantage - it doesn't want to change the socioeconomic status quo.

That's why historically when the rich had to choose between Fascism and Socialism, they sided with Fascism every single time.

^ Still the political faction with the longest, most consistent record of fighting Fascism has been the Far Left

Ahzoh wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 11:28 am It sounds like another instance of fascism is winning =(

Why does nobody learn from history?

Lack of class consciousness perhaps.

Noteworthy, elected chancellor, Friedrich Merz, used to be a senior conselor of Mayer Brown and board member of BlackRock. Surely we know what will Germany be heading towards (i.e. more neoliberal shit). I am quite disappointed that people vote for the same parties over and over again yet expect a d...

@zompist
i agree with you - Mohism is cool. ^^

Gentlemen, what are your thoughts on Confucianism? I ask here since it's mostly a philosophy with religious elements. Confucianism is authoritarianism. Your social superiors have complete authority over you. They are supposed to be benevolent towards you. However, there are no checks on their capri...

Gentlemen, what are your thoughts on Confucianism? I ask here since it's mostly a philosophy with religious elements.

^Right but does Christianity by necessity needs to support laissez faire capitalism? As far as I know there is a lot of stuff in the New Testament about helping the poor and a lot of early Christian communities lived in a way that was relatively close to socialism. In the US Dr. Martin Luther King J...

BTW - isn't the association between Christianity and laissez faire economics a relatively new thing? It seems to be a rather strange mix that (to my knowledge) only exists in the US.

I think a thread about these things is a good idea. I wanted to avoid having separate threads about non political and political philosophy - so here you can discuss both. I wanted to also add religion but I don't know if it is a good idea as it might make the discussion too broad. So... Pick up what...

Doesn't closing of USAID just reflect the misguidedly neoliberal/libertarian idea of "small government"?

^Words are cheap. He can say whatever he wants. He can always say he's misspoken and really meant the opposite. He used anti Chinese rhetorics throughout his entire election campaign and one of the first things he did was imposing tariffs on China. A proper US president with a decent foreign policy ...

Trump was "cozying up to Putin" - but that was before the war and only as a means of breaking Russia's alliance with China. Other than this, Trump is as much s supporter of (supposed) US exceptionalism and global hegemony as any other Tom, Dick or Harry in the White House. Perhaps not in t...