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The North Koreans have a right to defend themselves against invasion. Because North Korea has less military resources than the United States it must utilize a type of weaponry that threatens the United States. I oppose nulcear arms but, unortunately, North Korea needs nuclear arms to defend itself.

Miracles do not happen. Inconsistencies of medical knowledge and theory due to limitations of examination do.

Well for one, being a doctor does not neccesitate rationality. Two, just because a majority of something believes it true does not make it true. Three, doctors are not biologists. Four, I hope my doctor does not believe in God too strongly, I don't want him taking the...

China is an unusual state, but not so unusual that it cannot be defined in materialist, concrete terms. China began to regress from the dictatorship of the proletariat during the Deng period creating a system of dual power of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. After the mid-1990s or so, the...

I was refering to religion as a whole, but I specifically take issue with Catholicism on conscription, women's liberation, etc. but this is not the thread nor would I wish to engage in such a debate.

I am of course assuming that in your criticism of communism you have at least familiarized yourself with The Communist Manifesto, Wage-Labour and Capital, and his conepts of historical materialism and alienation. If not, read here: alienation. Self-imposed schizophrenic behaviors do not bode...

Life has no inherit purpose other than the purpose a person determines within the means of that which is indeterminable within historical determinance. In other words, life is what you make it [within your circumstances].

Umm, no? The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin The Transitional Programme for Socialist Revolution by Leon Trotsky Marx’s concept of alienation, especially for marginalized elements of society, rings true today. Furthermore, Lenin’s conception of trade-union consciousness limiting the...

Man is infinetely connected with the universe as part of the totality of existence. I suggest you familiarize yourself with Hegel, or if you find him too tough of a read, Marx. Or google "dialectic".

Hugo Chavez is a champion of workers’ rights and economic modernization, but he is a flash in the firepan. What is important about Chavez is that his regime has brought about Bolivarian circles, a kind of soviet. Over the next two decades we may second Russian Revolution but this time under a...

I would think so. Christianity takes the line that human’s have a non-biological nature — “sin v. good”. Evolution takes the line that humans are dynamic creatures, acting within our means to preserve out immediate existence alongwith, but more sociologically, our ability to reproduce and...

People don't live to be a thousand years old, they lose the ability to actively and healthily perform mitosis in order to repair the body after eighty-or-so years. But most likely, any person who lived in Mesopotamia six thousand yeras ago most likely lived to fifty or so years.

We cannot determine the existence or non-existence of a supernatural being. 'God' may or may not exist, but the 'Toothfairy' may or may not exist as well. A combination of primitive observations, fear of death, and oedipal complexes. The real existence of the 'Devil' is unknowable but if you...

Excellent post Electric Sceptic! I agree, all persons are materialist. No one will get to work by driving the idea of a car. Essentially, naturalism is even part of language itself, with abstract ideas existing only in the language-game. Faith is an irrational like all non-justified beliefs. To...

Perhaps Luxemburgism does not, this is why I see the test for the political compass as flawed but the notion correct.

You’re actually right but I included Luxemburgists, Trotskysists, Leninists, and Maoists because often there scores are in the libertarian-left quadrant of the political compass. A downfall in the questions used but not the overall notion of a political compass.

Your thinking of American Libetarianism which is in reality libertarian neoliberalism. Libertarians can be anarcho-communists, council communists, Trotskyists, Leninists, Maoists, libertarian socialists, Luxemburgitsts, etc. as well as anarcho-capitalist and libertarian neoliberals.

Might I state this test is awfully flawed. Libertarianism and Anarchism are not necessarily related. I like the political compass’s division of the political spectrum into authoritarian vs libertarian and neoliberal vs. socialist.

I’m a socialist. Of course, I already knew this.

Yes. I also believe they misuse some scientific principle called Borel’s Law