Category: Politics
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Against Class Struggle
I have chosen a provocative title for this piece but it is chosen for a specific context. At present, socialism-communism is on the back foot worldwide and has been at least since the fall of the Soviet Union. The United States exerts authority over a majority of world states, even if it does not have…
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Against Military Fatalism
“The king is everywhere primarily a warlord.” This statement can be found in (Gerth & Mills’s 1947 English translation of) Max Weber’s Essays in Sociology, and is a good example of what I’ve always seen as a bitter fault of viewpoint or approach. This bitterness is nevertheless sweetened by the valuable insights that follow on from…