November 2009
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“That is all true, to be sure. ...
… It is also true that every new movement, when it first elaborates its theory and policy, begins by finding support in the preceding movement, though it may be in direct contradiction with the latter. It begins by suiting itself to the forms found at hand and by speaking the language spoken hereto. In time, the new grain breaks through the old husk. The new movement finds its forms and...
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Anscombe’s Tetrachotomy. From C.S. Lewis’s...
The bulk of [Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret] Anscombe’s criticisms, however, concern her contention that the argument from reason, at least as presented in Lewis’s first edition, fails to distinguish between various types of “full” explanations. Anscombe claimed that “full” explanations are explanations that completely satisfy an inquirer’s curiosity, so there can be different “full” explanations...
From Of Cannibals
The prophet speaks to them in public, inciting them to virtue and to their duty; but their whole moral teaching contains only these two articles: resoluteness in war and affection for their wives. He prophesies things to come and the results they may hope for from their undertakings; shows them the way toward war, or dissuades them from it; but all this is under the condition that, he fails to...
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“The Wages of Sin is Death.”
Landlords and Lawlords and Tradelords, the specters you conjured have risen—
Communists, Socialists, Nihilists, Rent-rebels, Strikers, behold!
They are fruits of the seed you have sown – God has prospered your planting. They come
From the earth like army of death. You have sowed the teeth of the dragon!
Hark to the bay leader! You shall hear the roar of the pack
As sure as the stream...
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socialism is more than an economic formula
“As a modern political movement, socialism arose in the early and middle decades of the nineteenth century. As an idea, it can be discerned much earlier in mythic, philosophic, and theological thought. In the simplest sense, socialism amounts to a belief that all producers ought to share equally in the fruits of combined labor. On a deeper level, socialism is more than an economic...
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But then, why do we oppose them?
Our opponents, the beneficiaries and defenders of the current social system, are in the habit of justifying the right to private property by stating that property is the condition and guarantee of liberty.
And we agree with them. Do we not say repeatedly that poverty is slavery?
But then, why do we oppose them?
The reason is clear: in reality the property that they defend is capitalist...
