@ Wheylous
His plan to fix the economy means as much to me as the words echoed in this video.
Wheylous, if I was still in college I’d in all seriousness print that picture out and give it to my engineering teacher as a project I was working on.
Meet Imran Khan, The Ron Paul Of Pakistan
http://www.valuewalk.com/2012/10/meet-imran-khan-the-ron-paul-of-pakistan/
I read this, and at first I thought it would be different than what it was, I don’t know why, maybe because a Republican was breaking out of the norm? In reality, no, again same rhetoric and agenda, just a different mask.
Republican Senator, Vietnam Vet, Endorses Obama
President Obama ended one war, is ending another and meeting our national security needs with support of our military leaders. He’s laid out a clear plan that would reduce the deficit and prevent the mandatory military spending cuts that no one wants. But today’s Republican Party, including Ryan who voted for the deal that would trigger the cuts, is willing to bring our country’s defenses to the fiscal cliff – just so a multimillionaire doesn’t have to pay a single extra penny in taxes. And the real lack of leadership? Failing to own up to your role in racking up a record debt from two unpaid wars and two massive unpaid for tax cuts. Mitt Romney leads the party that fails this leadership test.
Wut?
He wants Romney to call himself “Bush 3”
Is it just me, or does Maoism slightly resemble Jeffersonian Democracy?
Not really. They both just have the farmer as the basic unit, Jefferson because of the strong Anglo-Saxon, Graeco-Roman tradition (with good reason), and Mao because almost everyone in China was a farmer so he had to adapt Marxism to that environment. Other than that, they are pretty different.
Both emphasize the power of the yeoman, I guess that’s what made me view them as similar. And please expand on what the “good reason” is.
Are they really yeomen under socialism?? The good reason is that decentralised agrarian societies foster beneficial social institutions.
Ha, I suppose they aren’t yeomen under socialism. But regardless, Jeffersonian Democracy is still democracy, also known as the tyranny of the majority. Jeffersonian democracy seems to me like a small spin on that. I’d be happy if you helped me understand it more.
Well when I said ‘with good reason’ I was referring to the Anglo-Saxon, Graeco-Roman tradition, i.e. that Jefferson’s knowledge of those civilizations aided his understanding of social institutions. Also, note that if there are property requirements for voting, the latter does not necessarily result in the ‘tyranny of the majority’.
So what you are saying is that democracy can exist under libertarian principles, just as long as it does not violate somebody’s rights.
Not exactly. Rather that a significant degree of liberty can exist in a limited democracy…‘if you can keep it’. The health of any society depends on the character of its members. Imagine if everyone on these forums created a new democracy. Don’t you think it would allow for much greater freedom than if it was made up of random members of the general public?
Hmm, I see.
Well tell me your thoughts on Jeffersonian democracy, and if you think it is a fairly good or bad idea. I just read about how the Democratic-Republican Party (Jefferson’s party) supported both Jeffersonian democracy as well as isolationism and nationalism. And I honestly don’t see how you could build an entire political philosophy around the agrarian peasentry and make it work.
Look, compared to what exists today, it’s amazing. You have to understand: the reason why they favoured the yeoman and opposed the aristocrats and plutocrats is that they realised the latter could use their wealth and power to capture the state and transform it into their own tool for gaining even more wealth and power, and so forth. They were right, since that’s essentially what happened. But it existed within its own context. The conditions for the revival of such specific ideas are not exactly present, since the base foundations of the societal institutions upon which the philosophy is based have been swept away.