Philosophy

Vladimir Lenin, “How to Organize Competition” [Atlas Intellectuals]

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This unit of the self-paced course on Socialism focuses on a theorist, revolutionary, and a leading figure in the October Revolution and the foundation of the Soviet Union. See our Executive Summary of Vladimir Lenin’s “How to Organize Competition”: ‘to achieve competitive socialism, Lenin urges that all the “vermin” be eradicated in Russia. War must […]

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Immanuel Kant on faith [from Explaining Postmodernism]

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“I had to deny knowledge,” wrote Kant in the Preface to the first Critique, “in order to make room for faith.” For more on the meaning and implications of Immanuel Kant’s contributions to postmodernism, see my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault (pp. 97-98). Information about other editions and translations of Explaining Postmodernism is

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Media bias, Biden vaccine mandates, atheist chaplains, homeschooling’s rise (Current Events)

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Yesterday, Dr. Richard Salsman and I discussed those four topics at the monthly Current Events program hosted by TAS’s CEO Jennifer Grossman. Here’s a link to the David Rozado, et al., paper I discuss: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/08944393211031452?journalCode=ssce

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Los Conservadores NO Son Capitalistas de Libre-Mercado

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Los Conservadores NO Son Capitalistas de Libre-Mercado Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Los conservadores e izquierdistas discrepan entre sí a menudo, pero ambos están en desacuerdo con los capitalistas liberales. El punto general aquí será que los debates políticos rara vez son bidireccionales; Casi siempre los capitalistas liberales se enfrentan a la oposición desde

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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, *The Communist Manifesto* [Atlas University course]

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This week in the A.U. course on Socialism we cover Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s Manifesto of the Communist Party. Marx, who devised the ideology of communism, proclaims the inevitable self-destruction of capitalism due to its internal contradictions and urges communists to lead the world to a classless society. The full course: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/socialism. Other Waterfall

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ENCROACHING DARKNESS, featuring Stephen Hicks, James Lindsay, & Michael O’Fallon

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Does politics drive philosophy, or does philosophy drive politics? In the previous episode of Sovereign Nations’s Changing Tides, “The Seeds of Collectivism,” James Lindsay, Stephen Hicks and Michael O’Fallon began with the metaphysical collectivist thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. They then examined Hegel and Kant, and concluded with Dr. Hicks’s assertion that if it weren’t for the success

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