I'm more optimistic than that. Organized labor has disappeared, the proletariat as a political force is dead, but we are seeing the emergence of the precariat. I think Guy Standing and Murray Bookchin

Yeah, Beto is more of a neoliberal, but neoliberal and social democratic ideology do have notable common features.

The most talented musicians I know of are poor and have never "been discovered" because they don't have enough money to promote themselves. You, sir, are completely out of touch with reality.

The main factor in going from rags to riches is not talent or effort but luck. That's why it's relatively rare. And, I agree that minimum wage is a bad way to regulate markets. A much better approach is

It may be possible to survive in India because food is cheaper, but surviving isn't thriving. I remember having a conversation with a member of the Indian Orthodox Church years ago, discussing educational

I think you have your formula backwards. It should be “keep paying, stop working.” Fully-Automated Luxury Geo-Distributist Social Democracy.

For the record, I'm advocating a new synthesis that transcends conservatism and progressivism, recognizing the good points of both side and rejecting the bad points.

Social democracy was originally a socialist ideology. In fact, it was basically Marxist but with a democratic socialist basis. Thus, there was Fabian Socialism, Lange-Lerner model, etc. The Nordic model,

You know, it is entirely possible to do social democracy within an anarchist framework. I'm sceptical of full anarchism, but left-libertarian ideas are mostly on point.

In a gift economy, the exchange isn't even trade. It's a asymmetrical exchange with a loose, non-binding, informal expectation that the other person will return the favor. It's not a contract or trade,

A market is a system of trade. Two people exchanging isn't necessarily a market. Informal exchange based on gift economy arrangements isn't technically a market. It's only a market when there's a system

Gift economies aren't markets, unless you are just defining all economies as markets. But then full communism is still a market. So, communism would be capitalism?

Fuck Marx. Das Kapital is garbage. I suggested a book by an anarchist and anthropologist, not a Marxist. Historically, primitive societies had gift economies, like the arrangements you might find in rural

You should read "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" by the anarchist David Graeber.

Let me clarify what I meant by that. So, classical conservatives were critical of capitalism (which they saw as a system of wage-slavery, with wealth concentrated at the top). Their critique resembled

Just to clarify, I'm an atheist. So, I don't subscribe to any of these schools of thought. Cernelius van Til, who is the most important Christian thinker of all time, in my opinion, really influenced

I'm familiar with Graeber's work. His latest book on "Bullshit Jobs" is on my current reading list. I would just say that "full-employment" is a relative term. It means that everyone

That sort of property is just usufruct. That's not what libertarian socialists oppose. I am not a libertarian socialist. Libertarian socialism is an anarchist school of thought. I am a Georgist, social

Social democracy and democratic socialism were historically one movement. The first social democratic party in Europe was Marxist. "Social democracy" and "democratic socialism" are

Yes, that's why redistribution is necessary for markets to work well for everyone.