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» 13/02/2014 9:04:51 PM I'd love to see the public debate, but beside you calling for the debate, (for which I'm v.....
» 22/11/2010 8:56:16 AM Squeers, Sorry about my previous comment about sorting out issues. That wasn't appropriate.....
» 22/11/2010 7:24:02 AM I admit I wasn't particularly well informed, but the information that my friend gave me wa.....
» 21/11/2010 9:54:15 AM Thanks so much for that Alana. Great stuff! It is amazing that protectionism has been so .....
» 21/11/2010 9:42:20 AM Some of you might like to check out this article that was published on OLO on Wednesday. .....
» 21/11/2010 9:28:17 AM Geat to see an article on this thanks Sue. I think that the Asia-Pacific Defence and Secu.....
» 19/11/2010 7:19:51 AM Squeers, I have heard no mention that Tony is involved with the Aust Poectionist Party. (Y.....
» 18/11/2010 9:33:16 AM Grok "Local production, et al., should indeed re-establish its pride of place in the.....
» 12/11/2010 9:11:38 PM Squeers, The article which you link for us with Pros and cons of protectionism is pretty p.....
» 12/11/2010 6:58:43 PM Hi Tony Ryan, Checked out your websites. I like a lot of what's on them, but am concerned.....
» 10/11/2010 10:44:49 PM Thanks for those comments Tony, I'll check out those links tomorrow night. Interesting stu.....
» 10/11/2010 10:41:15 PM Actually I think that the author is really onto something here. Hang on, I am the author! .....
» 9/11/2010 5:52:55 PM An impassioned discussion on science Squeers, with interesting and well thought out points.....
» 8/11/2010 9:11:51 AM Science? Science and materialism was on the rise in Marx's time. He was just trying to ca.....
» 4/11/2010 10:03:16 AM I think that this is a good discussion to be having, and some form of nationalization of b.....
» 3/11/2010 9:37:30 AM The free market has sucked the life out of our comunities on the more local levels of soci.....
» 1/11/2010 9:39:53 PM What about all the illegal settlement building? Surely if Isreal wishes to claim any legi.....
» 28/10/2010 9:07:28 PM I think that you could look at the push to live in communes, most especially through the 6.....
» 23/10/2010 8:31:15 AM Thanks for your input Bugsy and Peter especially. I am going away for a few days, but can .....
» 22/10/2010 4:29:17 PM Good post Peter, you've sent me into a deep meditation and I don't know where to begin. &.....
» 22/10/2010 12:43:14 PM Bugsy, "..you never mentioned ecology, not once." Fair comment. As the link sug.....
» 22/10/2010 12:03:44 AM I guess critiquing Darwin was always going to be a challenge. At least the Marxists are us.....
» 21/10/2010 2:26:04 PM Surely you should be in the Labor party, Malcolm. Pretty good article, I thought, but I do.....
» 21/10/2010 12:04:31 PM Poirot, "You seem to identify yourself as a "metaphysical philosopher " i.....
» 21/10/2010 8:11:10 AM Bugsy, you're so quick to criticize! Metaphysics is totally applicable to science; evolut.....
» 19/10/2010 9:17:40 PM Bugsy, Physics is a science too, but we eventually had to abandon Newtonian physics in t.....
» 19/10/2010 4:18:41 PM Poirot, I am quite happy with Koestler's definition. He is describing both the separatenes.....
» 19/10/2010 2:05:30 PM Yabby, My reading of reciprocal altruism is that it is giving reasons for why essentiall.....
» 18/10/2010 10:41:45 PM Poirot, I can certainly see that the industrial revolution effected the way that we live,.....
» 18/10/2010 3:00:32 PM Poirot, "Most dwellers in our society don't bother, or don't have the time to think .....
» 17/10/2010 11:12:36 PM Squeers etc, Gilbert's Interpretation of the Dialectic in 350 Words or Less The dialecti.....
» 17/10/2010 4:23:25 PM Continued for all... As for Marxism, the idea that, "It is not consciousness of men .....
» 17/10/2010 3:40:36 PM I like the discussion about human nature. It is very much on topic; depending on what we b.....
» 12/10/2010 10:40:48 PM Rock on Caroline! Time to get serious about restoring and protecting the natural environme.....
» 12/10/2010 9:05:05 PM Grok says, "....you continue to draw inaccurate analogies between dialectical relatio.....
» 12/10/2010 8:29:15 AM I thought Susan was an excellent editor. All the best. Perhaps OLO could ramp up its sale.....
» 11/10/2010 5:55:44 PM I said, "Hegel was certainly aware that the roots of the dialectic lie predominantly .....
» 10/10/2010 12:12:38 AM Hi Joe/Loudmouth, Good comment! I think your a,b,c,d points are a good description of t.....
» 9/10/2010 5:16:57 PM Hi Squeers, Marx himself either did not know or ascribed little significance to the fact,.....
» 8/10/2010 11:41:12 PM Hi David, That was actually a quote that I lifted from one of Grok's posts. I quoted him t.....
» 8/10/2010 6:07:25 PM Grok, I liked your comments about democracy, although it did take me a few minutes to dise.....
» 6/10/2010 11:21:38 PM Schumacher's 'Small is Beautiful' is indeed an excellent text, and anyone who hasn't got a.....
» 5/10/2010 9:39:11 PM Squeers, "Sorry, but all you're offering is syllogistic rather than dialectical thoug.....
» 5/10/2010 8:58:46 PM Interesting posts today everyone! David f, "You don't justify atrocities to produce .....
» 4/10/2010 7:16:21 PM cont. "...how would you suggest we get the government to implement the reforms you r.....
» 4/10/2010 6:54:25 PM hi Squeers, Actually in breaking my previous post into two parts, I managed to delete at .....
» 3/10/2010 11:43:20 PM cont.. I am also an advocate of a wealth tax. I am an advocate of private investement, es.....
» 3/10/2010 11:34:04 PM That does seem like an interesting post Squeers, though I do have a little trouble underst.....
» 3/10/2010 1:12:39 PM Grok says "...socialism.... It's about *getting rid of government*" That's funn.....
» 3/10/2010 7:01:29 AM Grok, "As for the utility of it: tell me the utility of actively walking around in c.....
» 2/10/2010 1:45:00 PM Couldn't agree with you more Duncan, "...one can see the importance of understanding.....
» 30/09/2010 10:04:04 PM It is an idealized anecdote, but I am still not entirely convinced. If we think of a sli.....
» 30/09/2010 7:02:18 PM I have asked a few people what they thought about the example of a rabbit population and h.....
» 28/09/2010 11:18:13 PM Peter Hume, Thanks for saying it was a good article. So many criticisms were starting to g.....
» 28/09/2010 10:44:53 PM David f, I'd just like to address your ignorance first. Not to mention your willingness t.....
» 27/09/2010 7:30:04 PM David F, I would suggest that all manifestations of nature can be understood to exist bet.....
» 27/09/2010 5:03:04 PM Hi Candide, cool name. Don't know a lot about Scandanavia, but I suspect that you could a.....
» 22/09/2010 10:39:26 PM There are positive aspects to capitalism, just as there are positive aspects to it's polar.....
» 21/09/2010 7:32:54 PM Jefferson, "So the government would set prices? Based on the labour theory of value?.....
» 21/09/2010 2:23:39 PM continued... Ideally then, there would be a strong cooperative aspect to the economy, thr.....
» 21/09/2010 2:18:40 PM Jefferson, "How do you distinguish between the fair price and the market price in an.....
» 20/09/2010 8:32:32 PM Personally I think that we need to change the paradigm a little further and move straight .....
» 20/09/2010 10:27:36 AM I think that we can recognize the growing influence of the range of Eastern philosophies/r.....
» 17/09/2010 10:38:24 PM Sorry for missing all the fun everyone. Been moving house and have had the internet down. .....
» 2/09/2010 10:21:06 PM Mikk, "If the cup maker was really interested in benefiting society he would have so.....
» 1/09/2010 10:15:36 PM Pericles, I haven't yet had a look at the 'Theory of Moral Sentiments' though I have read .....
» 1/09/2010 10:10:11 PM Thanks all for your comments, compliments and criticisms. Pelican, "a society still.....
» 1/09/2010 5:41:27 PM I earn my income as a carpenter......
» 31/08/2010 12:16:11 AM Thanks Pelican for the endorsement, Rock on! Did you see the bigger article that I put u.....
» 30/08/2010 8:29:47 PM Hi Eclipse Now Good work. "...you sound like a market fundamentalist in denial of s.....
» 25/08/2010 8:38:16 PM Antiseptic, There might, for example be a company run by the Australian govt that sells s.....
» 25/08/2010 6:23:33 PM Thanks MultiMick, Food sounds like a good place to start. Phillipine bananas, New Zealand .....
» 24/08/2010 9:25:35 PM Antiseptic, "I sell entirely locally, but I rely on parts, machinery, fuel, electric.....
» 23/08/2010 10:50:34 PM I am a newbe. Nice to meet you all......
» 23/08/2010 9:57:49 PM Hi Yabby, Hope you have been listening to what the ever popular Bob Katter has got to say.....
» 23/08/2010 9:52:51 PM Continued… So what I suggest, in the way of 'balance', is that while we try to gain the a.....
» 23/08/2010 9:50:59 PM Peter Hume, "I think your demonstration of this consists, correct me if I"m wro.....
» 23/08/2010 4:13:29 PM Pericles, Perhaps I did get a bit ahead of myself suggesting that we could create a 'trull.....
» 23/08/2010 1:26:34 PM "FTI AS IT IS PRACTISED is indeed misplaced." Actually it is more than just the.....
» 22/08/2010 11:53:49 AM Examinator, "....idealism ........ tends to interpolate as a visceral competition be.....
» 19/08/2010 10:06:40 AM Pericles, You mentioned human nature, but exactly what is the nature of that human natur.....
» 18/08/2010 11:57:44 PM Peter, I think that your concentration on the numbers here is really restricting your und.....
» 18/08/2010 8:06:59 PM Hi Pericles, "a single currency is unworkable. And will continue to be, until the p.....
» 16/08/2010 9:25:46 PM G'day Yabby, Our farming communities have been having the life sucked out of them by free.....
» 16/08/2010 9:09:20 PM Shadow minister, "Taxing inputs, say of machinery, discourages local production.&quo.....
» 16/08/2010 8:37:28 PM Hi Pelican, "One of the problems inherent in free trade is the idea that we can expl.....
» 16/08/2010 8:29:38 PM Hi Mr Hume, Free trade tends to benefit those who are already powerful. Such as England i.....
» 15/08/2010 11:38:59 PM Yabby, If you hadn't noticed, the only farmers that are making any money at the moment are.....
» 15/08/2010 5:31:51 PM The idea of free trade is based on David Ricardo's 'Theory of comparative advantage'. The .....
» 15/08/2010 1:47:21 PM I am not an advocate of capitalism anymore than I am an advocate of communism. I am an a.....
» 14/08/2010 9:26:11 PM Down with collectivist extremists! ....and down with the idealogues of the cult of the in.....
» 14/08/2010 9:35:36 AM Hi Forkes, The sight of people scratching their heads, pulling their hair out and saying .....
» 13/08/2010 11:02:55 PM Direct democracy is definitely the answer. To make it work, it’s got to begin at the level.....
» 12/08/2010 10:38:34 PM Stern, Adam Smith was far from stupid. Neither was Rene Descartes. They simply built thei.....
» 12/08/2010 3:08:10 PM The bean-counting bureaucrat strikes again!.....
» 12/08/2010 3:05:22 PM We are currently using on a global scale approximately 13,670 000 cubic metres of oil and .....
» 12/08/2010 2:13:24 PM Hi Stern/Col, Personally I thought that hasbeen ("Gilbert, spoken like a true ".....
» 11/08/2010 11:08:37 PM Looking for balance within our society is not about some half-arsed compromise between opp.....
» 11/08/2010 5:42:48 PM I appreciate belly’s recognition that the society in which we live has aspects of both com.....
» 10/08/2010 11:25:59 PM Peter, just read that last thread that you started too. Personally I think that you’re my .....
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