Philosophy.eserver.org/chicken.txt. WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD? Plato: For the greater good. Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability. Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained. Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas. Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!
Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out. Economics and Politics by Paul Krugman - The Conscience of a Liberal. Rush, Newspeak and Fascism: An exegesis. Rush, Newspeakand Fascism:An exegesis Introduction Is fascism an obsolete term? Even if it resurrects itself as a significant political threat, can we use the term with any effectiveness? My friend John McKay, discussing the matter at his Weblog archy, wonders if the degraded state of the term has rendered it useless. After all, it has in many respects become a catchall for any kind of totalitarianism, rather than the special and certainly cause-specific phenomenon it was. Anyone using the word nowadays is most often merely participating in this degradation.
Nonetheless, I think Robert O. We cannot give up in the face of these difficulties. The following essay is devoted to that idea. The essay originally appeared as a series of posts at my Weblog Orcinus, sparked by an erroneous report of something Rush Limbaugh reportedly had told his radio audience. The version that appears before you is, of course, considerably edited and rewritten. David Neiwert Seattle June 2003 *. What's wrong with libertarianism. "The perfect liberty they seek is the liberty of making slaves of other people. " -- Abraham Lincoln Apparently someone's curse worked: we live in interesting times, and among other consequences, for no good reason we have a surplus of libertarians. With this article I hope to help keep the demand low, or at least to explain to libertarian correspondents why they don't impress me with comments like "You sure love letting people steal your money!
" Good libertarians and the other kind This article has been rewritten, for two reasons. First, the original article had sidebars to address common objections. From several people's reactions, it seems that they never read these. Second, and more importantly, many people who call themselves libertarians didn't recognize themselves in the description. If you-- ...then this page isn't really addressed to you. On the other hand, you might want to stick around to see what your more fundamentalist colleagues are saying.
The Un-Communism Who needs facts? Fascism: a diagnostic guide. For years I've wanted to have a better grasp of fascism-- what it is and what it isn't-- and Robert O. Paxton's new book, The Anatomy of Fascism, is just the ticket. Let's start with Things You Might Not Have Known About Fascism: Liberalism, conservativism, and socialism all matured in the 19th century; at its end fascism was still undreamed of. It seemed to come out of the blue.One reason for its appearance was that traditional liberal and conservative politicians had no idea how to appeal to the masses-- especially in countries where full suffrage came late. (Italy had full manhood suffrage only in 1912; Germany retained a 3-class voting system till the end of WW1.) Traditional politicians knew only how to appeal to the educated elite.Definitions of fascism are problematic, because fascism was prone to reinvent itself as it went along.
Mussolini's first supporters were disgruntled veterans, pro-WW1unionists, and Futurist intellectuals. The short answer: No, not quite. Check.