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miguelitoh2o — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:11:43 +0000

In reply to I currently carry a rather

In defense of Fulkuyama's End

moat — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 03:43:48 +0000

In defense of Fulkuyama's End Of History , he doesn't represent 'liberal capitalism' as a guarantor of democratic polity. His argument is more like this:

Capitalism has a corrosive effect upon societies that do not work on the basis of equal rights. Only in a democracy where equal rights are actively exercised can the class structure, a necessary component of Capital, be overcome by free individuals.

The logic is similar to Marx's vision of contradictions leading to a classless society except for the part where the bourgeois form of life is what being classless looks like.

I currently carry a rather

Richard Day — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:40:14 +0000

In reply to Logic, smogic.

I currently carry a rather large undistributed middle.

I just thought The major and

Flavius — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:46:40 +0000

In reply to All conservatives love

I just thought The major and the minor was a Ginger Rogers film.

And premises was what Officer Krupke called a house..

All conservatives love

The Decider — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:19:38 +0000

In reply to Logic, smogic.

All conservatives love America. You are not a conservative, so you don't love America.

Heh,heh, we especially like the fallacy where the minor premise is not in the field of the major one, Heh, heh!

--GWB