It is important not to estrange the people, no matter how deluded they are. This is a product of the hegemonic order.

Hezbollah has political allies (including christians) which together amount(ed) to a majority.

See: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hezbollah-allies-win-62-seats-lebanon-parliament-losing-2018-majority-reuters-2022-05-17/

And it’s not Hamas which holds elections, but rather the Palestinian authority, presided by the leader of Fatah (opponent of Hamas) who has been impeding elections since 2006 because his party is losing popularity.

See: https://archive.ph/Jn4KJ

Edit: I do not mean to offend anyone but I beg you (anyone reading this) please be more aware about what you write and say, especially if you haven’t looked into the issue in depth.

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So for how long could they have been doing it?

I just began Homo Juridicus by Alain Supiot. I’m still trying to grasp it, but I think it describes how the ‘legal man’ (homo juridicus) grasps the universe of signs through a specific set of legal (occidental) conceptions. It also references the philosophy of language.

Semantic Scholar, maybe ResearchGate? Academia.edu ??

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My experience with him is unusual since the only thing I read of his works was his treatise on writing, a sort of memoir in which he recounts his experience with writing and work ethic.

I’ve been using their service for two years now. It’s open source and encrypted, and the upload speeds exponentially improved.

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I’m sorry I don’t understand what you mean.

Definitely. I also noticed how little these supposed economists know what marxism is. Their entire doctrine is incoherent.

• Musical theme: Kahlil Gibran wrote an eloquent essay on music, though good luck finding it.

• Outside your comfort zone: Capitalism as Civilisation by Ntina Tzouvala, a theoretical work which examines how western legal scholars categorized non-western polities based on a racist standard of civilisation and justified colonising them.

• Book from a different cultural background: the Cairo Trilogy by the Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, a chronicle of a wealthy family witnessing the instability of the 1930s in British-occupied Egypt.

OK, I will think about it. Thanks.

I never bothered with the social aspect of book platforms, so I use an offline tracker. Do you recommend me creating one?

Works fine for me. You can open an issue on Github.

Throwback to when they announced releasing a simple phone. Fun times.

The term “social democracy” is very deceiving nowadays since it does not pertain anymore to the roots of the ideology which has changed quite drastically in the last century.

The original premise was that socialism could be achieved through reform and not revolution (hence it parted ways with the Marxist position). That is, the State’s institutions were suitable enough to “eventually” or “some day” lead to a socialist mode of production, and so cooperation with the state and, by extension, the bourgeoisie were incremental for socialism. This is why socdem parties were firm believers that change comes from the parliamentary electoral structure (Esson, 2022). I am not going to argue why this is problematic—Marx and Engels have said enough regarding this.

However, social democracy as we know it in the modern age is vastly different from what it used to be. The ideology in the 70’s has become attached to the Third Way and socdem parties throughout the world gradually adopted neoliberal policies, pressured by electoral competition. And the Scandinavian countries, home of social democracy, are an exemplary case to this. Just compare their parties’ agenda before and after WW2 and you will see what I am talking about.

To refer to “social democracy” as anything less than capitalism would be factually fallacious.

The existence of lemmy.world which you’re part of, proves that lemmy tolerates right-wing instances if you ask me.

Make use of the decentralized nature of lemmy, the devs won’t knock at your door for creating or posting on right-wing instances.