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Monday, January 10, 2011 “Debatable” posted by lenin   Gary Younge nails it:   Fights outside town hall meetings, guns outside rallies, Facebook pages calling for assassinations, discussions about the most propitious moment for armed insurrection. In late October I … Continue reading →

via krugman.blogs.nytimes.com Adam Smith looked upon capitalism as emancipatory to the poor ; victims of ancestral feudalism, an ossified system. His Wealth of Nations cannot be separated from his Theory of Moral Sentiments except by apologists for the current crop … Continue reading →

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http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/index.php?shokey=bbriefing Ian Masters is always worth listening to whatever the subject matter of the discussion. The January 9,2011 show, where he interviews a reporter and an economics professor from Arizona and is revelatory of the political climate of that state: … Continue reading →

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"Giannotti's mind was independent, forceful, and original, but lacked the unpredictable creativity of genius which we find in Machiavelli; and for this reason it may be taken as displaying in some detail the bent and the limitations of humanist political … Continue reading →

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