[Posted here as an example of nineteenth-century nihilism integrated with violence and destruction as a means to a revolutionary end.] The Revolutionary Catechism By Sergey Nechayev (1869) The Duties of the Revolutionary toward Himself 1. The revolutionary is a doomed man. He has no personal interests, no business affairs, no emotions, no attachments, no property, […]
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I went on a spring-day drive through rural Illinois and ended up in Ogle County’s Oregon, a farm town along the Rock River that is also the county seat. The north side of the courthouse square has a war memorial, with two slabs of granite engraved with the names of those who died in the
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por Stephen Hicks [This is a Spanish translation of “How to Tame Religious Terrorists”, originally published in English at EveryJoe and translated into Portuguese here.] Derrotar a un enemigo, como al politizado Islam, implica una batalla en varios frentes: policial, militar, diplomático, cultural y filosófico. Toda pelea es provocada por desacuerdos locales de corto plazo. Pero
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This is a work in progress. Corrections and additions welcome. The long comparison table below is also here in PDF format. Summary 96 issues included as of April 2016. Agreements: 19 Disagreements: 70 Semi-agree/ disagree: 7 Of the agreements: Negative agreements: 8 Positive agreements: 11 Bibliography Nietzsche’s works cited Rand’s works cited A The Antichrist
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Time warp in transportation: new technology, same arguments. Hansom cabs battled the new taxis in the early 20th century. And now, in the early 21st century, taxis battle the new Uber/Lyft cars.
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Here’s a review of my Nietzsche i naziści. Moje spojrzenie, tłum. I. Kłodzińska, (Chojnice: Oficyna Wydawnicza Fundacji Fuhrmanna, 2014). Its author is Ks. Janusz Chyła, who is on the theology faculty at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. It’s published in the journal Teologia i Człowiek. To my knowledge, this is the fifth scholarly
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In the mid-1700s: “Smallpox was the scourge of these times, just as the plague had been in the seventeenth century, or leprosy toward the close of the Middle Ages. A medical treatise published in 1774 calls it ‘the most universal disease.’ In France, ninety-five out of every hundred persons contracted it; one out of seven
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Worth reading: David Ramsay Steele’s now-classic article on the intellectual origins and practical evolution of fascism — “The Mystery of Fascism.” “From 1912 to 1914, Mussolini was the Che Guevara of his day, a living saint of leftism. Handsome, courageous, charismatic, an erudite Marxist, a riveting speaker and writer, a dedicated class warrior to the
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