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Four Main Theoretical Perspectives Feminism has four main frameworks. There is a fifth, which I will include towards the end of this thread. I’m hoping to make a few threads that cover the basics, not just for others to read and discuss on the forum, but to also clarify the basic positions for myself. I […]
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In 2011 China became the world’s largest producer of manufactured goods, overtaking the United States, top producer for the last 110 years. China, India, and other Asian countries are now the ‘factories of the world’, the main centres of production for most of the tangible things we buy and use, from cars to computers to […]
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“The simplest answer is the one we immediately take as our own, as if we came up with it ourselves.” – Chuang Tzu How do we know if something is true? Does correct mean it has to be “true”? If it’s true, does it have to mean something? How do we know anything if […]
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Introduction Humanity is at a critical point, I am looking for a human being, can we find any left? What do our spiritual, religious and social beliefs mean if we have no faith left in humanity itself? Can we at least begin to see that placing the blame on one ethnic group or another is […]
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What is “Spiritual”, “Spirituality”, “Religion” and “Religious”? What does “spiritual” and “spirituality” mean? What does “religion” and “religious” mean? They are often used in conjunction with each other and just as often they are used disjunctively. This inquiry will not be derived from some etymological or historical definitions to begin with; this will be purely […]
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If the world economy were an ocean, finance would be the currents and swells shifting resources from one shore to another. Sometimes the flows are steady, the surface looks millpond smooth … but then, out of the blue, things start to get rough … A capitalist economy is a complex system involving many interdependent markets. […]
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What is an economic system? In schools and universities, economics is taught as if capitalism is natural’, or the only system possible. But in fact there have been, throughout history, many different ways of organising how we use and produce resources. Here are just a few examples: • Hunter-gatherer traditions and cultures • ‘Gift economies’, […]
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I have decided to start a few threads on this topic, based on a number of talks and discussions on capitalism i’ve done over the years. Sometimes, I start by asking people: what does capitalism mean to you? Here are a few words that often come up: profit banks exploitation markets greed wage labour class […]
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I have opened up this thread for now, although it is not strictly speaking active. I wanted to share some intitial thoughts after reading the introduction and some of chapter 2, the introduction is chapter 1 by the way. The book is very easy to read, I think it is by far the simplest book […]