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Jim Farmelant
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Software engineer with an interest in both the natural and social sciences. Also in philosophy and politics.
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What are some good arguments against Marxism or socialism in general?
Probably the best theoretical arguments against socialism are the socialist calculation arguments that were first -presented by Ludwig von…
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October 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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What are some reasons why some people believe studying philosophy is not necessary at the…
Different people will have different reasons for opposing the teaching of philosophy at the university level. In many cases, such…
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October 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Louis Althusser
Louis Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher best known for his rethinking of Marxist theory, particularly his structuralist approach…
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October 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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What is the strongest philosophical case for atheism?
One important aspect of the case for atheism is a rejection of the traditional arguments for the existence of God as being unsound. More…
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October 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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What do you think about theological noncognitivism?
The following is from a presentation that I did for the Cambridge Philosophy Cafe several years ago on the topic — Does Religious Language…
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October 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Karl Kautsky (1854–1938) was a major figure in the history of Marxism in the years following the…
1. Orthodox Marxism and Popularizing Marxist Theory
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October 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Was David Hume an atheist?
For more than two hundred years, Hume scholars have been debating over whether or not he was an atheist, an agnostic, or some sort of…
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October 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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What are some of the best critiques of Marxist economics?
The classic critique of Marxist economics is Böhm-Bawerk’s Karl Marx And The Close Of The His System. Notice that this online version of…
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October 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Did they teach neoclassical economics in the Soviet Union?
In the Soviet Union, the economics profession was divided into two branches: the political economists and the mathematical economists, with…
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September 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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What are some of the best critiques of Marxist economics?
The classic critique of Marxist economics is Böhm-Bawerk’s Karl Marx And The Close Of The His System. Notice that this online version of…
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September 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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How have free markets and democracy been linked historically?
The economist Milton Friedman was a noted advocate of the view that free market capitalism and political democracy are linked together.
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September 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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What do you say to people who think God is not omnipresent/omniscient?
To my mind, the notion of a being who is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent (not to speak of omnipresent) is a load of rubbish — especially in light of the problem of evil.
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August 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Why is human behavior studied in psychology?
Thanks for reading!
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August 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Is Steven Pinker overrated as a public intellectual?
I do tend to think that he is overrated as a public intellectual. Here I will concentrate mostly on just one of his books, Enlightenment…
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May 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Is positivism right wing or left wing?
Positivism is not a specifically left-wing or right-wing philosophy. In the 19th century, Auguste Comte, the man who coined the label…
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May 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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On the reception of E. O. Wison’s Sociobiology in the Soviet Union
Sociobiology and evolutionary psychology have been and continue to be controversial subjects. But, as I point out here, E. O. Wilson’s…
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May 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Which philosophers are nihilists?
Nikolay Chernyshevsky
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April 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Trump’s tariffs and their rationales
It is noteworthy that Trump has presented several different and conflicting rationales for the new tariffs.
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April 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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What is Marxist psychology?
There is no one school of thought that can be designated as “Marxist psychology.” Historically, Marxists have embraced a wide variety of…
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April 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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This was probably the best known work by the late Professor Loren Graham.

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On Loren Graham’s Science, Philosophy, and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union
A number of years ago, I picked up in a used-book store a copy of Professor Loren R. Graham’s book, Science, Philosophy, and Human Behavior…
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March 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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A 21 st -Century Perspective on the "Socialist-Calculation Debate" re: Economic Planning
A 21 st -Century Perspective on the "Socialist-Calculation Debate" re: Economic Planning
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March 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Have any Marxist economists won the Nobel Prize in economics?
Well, back in 1975, the Soviet mathematician and economist Leonid Kantorovich shared the Nobel Prize in economics (alongside the American…
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March 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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I asked DeepSeek: Describe some of the latest developments in Marxist philosophy in China?

And its response was:
"Sorry, that's beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else."
January 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Donald Trump’s disaster capitalism
Los Angeles was primed to burn – by human error and human greed.
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January 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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What would be the implications if the theory of evolution was proven wrong?
Well, particular understandings of evolution have been proven wrong over the years. That is why one can say that over time, the theory of…
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January 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM