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Critique of the Mercantilist Society
The mercantilist society is characterized by the hypertrophy of the economy—a society in which mercantile values have invaded non-economic and non-mercantile structures. In the tripartite social system of the Indo-European world, the economy was closely tied to the third function—production—yet remained subordinated to the warrior function and, above all, to the sovereign function. (more…)
Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres, Guadalajara, Mexico
Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres, Guadalajara, Mexico
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Despite gaining currency, we are yet to understand the exasperation of the anti-colonialism movement. Frequently, activists denounce colonialism without giving just cause. (more…)
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5,462 words
“Socialism” is intrinsic to the “Right.” When journalists and academics refer in one breath to “liberalism, neoliberalism, and the Right-wing,” that attests to their ignorance, not to the accuracy of any such bastardization. Even at its most basic level of understanding, it seems to have been forgotten that in Britain there were Tories and Whigs in opposition. Now, Toryism has become so detached from its origins (more…)
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Since the Glorious Revolution of 1688 that established parliamentary and Protestant rule in Britain, the Anglo-Americans have been on the winning side in every major international conflict.
— Walter Russell Mead (more…)
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The Occupy Wall Street protest is innovative from a technical viewpoint, as a protest form.
OWS is creating some news and some controlled chaos, and that is probably a good thing.
As a political movement, it is more about crowd psychology than anything else. The OWS folks don’t know what they want, and as a collective they don’t even seem to understand what they are against. (more…)
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No-one wants to talk about Japan these days. The conventional wisdom is that the bloom went off Japan’s economic rose around 1990 and that the utter superiority of neoliberal capitalism was vindicated by the strong performance of the American economy during the 1990s. (more…)