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Consciousness and The Limits of Bourgois Philosophy
Recently Majesty of Reason, a philosophical YouTube channel run by a Philosophy PHD student hosted a debate on the philosophy of mind between materialist philosopher David Papineau and dualist philosopher Brian Cutter. The philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of consciousness, it concerns questions
The Vicissitudes of Democratic Socialism
Democratic socialism is a polysemous phrase, that is a phrase with multiple partly related senses. Socialism is polysemous in itself, but in its case it's arguable that only one of those senses is useful for categorizing a real ideological phenomenon. In the case of democratic socialism, the phrase
Fuentes and the Executioner: The rising legitimist in the age of populism
Long before Nazism became the definitive symbol of antisemitism, despotism, and xenophobia, an earlier generation of far-right ideologues was already constructing conspiracy theories and promoting the expulsion and extermination of minority populations. Today, with the rise of democratic right-wing populism and the normalization of illiberal conservative ideas, an odd ripple
Antifa is Anarchist
US president Donald Trump recently designated antifa a terrorist organization. Antifa is a loose social movement based around opposition to right-wing politics. For Trump the move is mostly an extension of his attempt to turn the United States into a right-wing autocracy, similar to Orban's Hungary and Putin&