• Issues with Communism

    Communism does not destroy and cannot in principle destroy social differences among the people. It changes only their forms, leading social contrasts to the monstrous sizes, which are at least not inferior to those in the West. Communism does not eliminate the inequality between humanity, the social injustice, exploitation of humanity and other evils of society — communism merely changes their form and gives birth t...

  • Violence is not just Physical – Words that Underpin Intolerance

    Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence. When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a C...

  • What should we do when faced with adversity?

    Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received--hatred. The great creators--the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors--stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought...

  • The Choice Between Capitalism and Socialism

    A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any...

  • Social State of Marxism

    (Aleksandr Zinovyev Quotes) Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society — communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism. If a Communist Party of a certain Western democracy promises to preserve after its seizure of power the positive characteristics o...

Archive for May, 2009

If you could describe a “perfect life” with just three words, what would they be?

May 12th

Posted by Andrew Crichton in Philosophy

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A perfect life would have to implicitly be: “Purpose Driven Happiness”.

The three words are interlocked, purpose leads to drive, and drive leads to happiness.

If life is full of these three facets it will lead to eudemonia, which in itself is a perfect existing state.

Religious Defamation and Political Correctness

May 1st

Posted by Andrew Crichton in Philosophy

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The greatest civil liberty granted is the freedom to express individual views and beliefs regardless of the consequences that may transpire. As famously phrased by John Stuart Mill, the freedom to express concern, against any who oppose or affront, is the only way to progress further ideologies and evidence inadequacies in whatever has been challenged. To vilify religion, in the 21st century, is perhaps one of the most difficult expositions to endeavour in. Whenever a religion is opposed, even questioned on its veracity, the guise of racially charged political congeniality, leaves those who wish to oppose regimes of bigotry, oppression More >

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