Are you all now deductivists? Can you say , "I finally know what science is!" . Is that case? Hopefully so. Okay so let's destroy it. Hahahaha such class.
You can definitely be critical of democracy without adhering to a proposition that a dictator is better. Take for example the Princeton study published around 2014 that argues that the US is not an actual democracy. Democracy can certainly be criticized in its existing forms and material realities. If you are saying the pure theory of democracy is safe from criticism the argument can be made that unless there is a concerted effort by the state to educate everyone to the best of their ability then a resulting democracy would be nothing more than tyrannical mob rule where the best ideas are trampled over by the uneducated hoards led by the pied pipers of private interests (Fox News for example). If these material conditions are not met then democracy as a public good may be very problematic as opposed to say an educated property-less aristocratic ruling class in the vein of Plato's Republic. The idea of private property vs public property and the public good is important to parse out here as allowing ruling classes to own property threatens the whole structure to devolve into the tyrannical form of an oligarchy that owns everything at the top. This is arguably what we have now in the US and other countries in the Imperial Capitalist Core. This doesn't even go into distinctions between different forms of democracy such as bourgeois parliamentarianism vs proletarian democratic centralism but these rely on really examining the idea of private property as being conducive to a just and fair society or not. From the bourgeois perspective proletarian democratic centralism is tyranny and vice versa from the proletarian perspective.
Important points very clearly articulated. Thank you, Professor!
Vielen Dank (auch) für diese Serie! Tolle altruistische Aktion, auch mal einfach Material unentgeltich ins Netz zu stellen. Daumen hoch!
Are you all now deductivists? Can you say , "I finally know what science is!" . Is that case? Hopefully so. Okay so let's destroy it.
Hahahaha such class.
Thank you Prof for your simplifications of these concepts.
"...'now I know what science is'. Right? Is that the case? Hopefully so. Okay so let's destroy it."
I love this guy.
Thank you!
Greetings from Egypt.
Watching and learning in 2022 march
Benzene is C6H6!
You can definitely be critical of democracy without adhering to a proposition that a dictator is better. Take for example the Princeton study published around 2014 that argues that the US is not an actual democracy. Democracy can certainly be criticized in its existing forms and material realities. If you are saying the pure theory of democracy is safe from criticism the argument can be made that unless there is a concerted effort by the state to educate everyone to the best of their ability then a resulting democracy would be nothing more than tyrannical mob rule where the best ideas are trampled over by the uneducated hoards led by the pied pipers of private interests (Fox News for example). If these material conditions are not met then democracy as a public good may be very problematic as opposed to say an educated property-less aristocratic ruling class in the vein of Plato's Republic. The idea of private property vs public property and the public good is important to parse out here as allowing ruling classes to own property threatens the whole structure to devolve into the tyrannical form of an oligarchy that owns everything at the top. This is arguably what we have now in the US and other countries in the Imperial Capitalist Core.
This doesn't even go into distinctions between different forms of democracy such as bourgeois parliamentarianism vs proletarian democratic centralism but these rely on really examining the idea of private property as being conducive to a just and fair society or not. From the bourgeois perspective proletarian democratic centralism is tyranny and vice versa from the proletarian perspective.