“The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; the people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power.”
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
A Vital American Value Is Tolerance. We Are Losing It
Tolerance is ultimately an expression of humility. We must be humble
before he who sees all things because we never will see all things
ourselves. Anybody in the United States capable of uttering the phrase
“Maybe I’m wrong,” is doing more benefit to the body politic than those
who eschew such modesty.Like
all virtues, tolerance comes with dangers that must be considered, lest
it turn into relativism. At its worst, tolerance robs us of the ability
to make judgments regarding right and wrong. Without an overarching
moral framework and, more importantly, laws, tolerance can create chaos.
Decent people should not tolerate a good many things. But for the most
part political, religious, moral, and philosophical differences do not
fall in this category.It may well be reasonable for those on the left to say they will not
tolerate Trump and his supporters’ rhetoric, or for those on the right
to say they will not tolerate the chilling of free speech. But what we
must remember is that ultimately what is being tolerated is not the
idea, but the person espousing it. So long as that person is speaking in
a respectful and nonviolent manner, he or she should almost always be
extended tolerance.
It is the greatest inequality to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle
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Why Marxism Shifted from Economics to Culture | Brian Balfour
Laclau and Mouffe, however, would beg to differ with Doherty’s casual
dismissal of any link between socialist revolutionaries and identity
politics. Indeed, they insisted that the only way to achieve
their socialist ends was to create a new conception of the “exploited
class,” one that would be identified not in traditional Marxist economic
terms, but by “forms of domination different to that of economic
exploitation.”Because, as the authors explained, this society “is indeed
capitalist, but this is not its only characteristic; it is sexist and
patriarchal as well, not to mention racist.”“These new political subjects: women, students, young people, racial,
sexual and regional minorities, as well as the various
anti-institutional and ecological struggles,” Laclau and Mouffe
continued, “not only cannot be located at the level of relations of
production…on top of this, they define their objectives in a radically
different way.”
Why Marxism Shifted from Economics to Culture | Brian Balfour
The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented, but that socialism has been faithfully implemented. From the Soviet Union to Cuba to Venezuela, wherever true socialism or communism has been adopted, it has delivered anguish and devastation and failure. Those who preach the tenets of these discredited ideologies only contribute to the continued suffering of the people who live under these cruel systems.
Donald Trump
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