Tag: Freedom

• February 7, 2022

  Rousseau’s Social Contract

  Book 1 Chapter 1: Subject of this First Book Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. Chapter 2: On the First Societies Aristotle was right; but he took the effect for the cause. Nothing can be more certain…
• January 19, 2022

  Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality

  Hi. Just browsing my library and sharing some highlights. Check out some of these quotes from Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a leading Genevan philosopher and political theorist and one of the key figures of the Enlightenment. Dedication to the Republic of Geneva: Once peoples once accustomed to masters, they are no longer…
• October 21, 2019

  Rosa Luxemburg vs. The Bolsheviks

  Rosa Luxemburg is one of my favorite revolutionaries. She easily predicted the shortfalls of the pending Russian Revolution and elegantly exposed the Bolsheviks for what they truly were. Below are my favorite parts from two of her essays regarding the Russian Revolution: Leninism or Marxism (1904) Lenin reasons that the combination of the socialist mass…
• May 8, 2019

  How Scholars Loath Democracy, Freedom, and the Common Man

  Hi, I wanted to give you some historical snap-shots of the disdain that our institutions of higher learning have for democracy, freedom, and the common man. Please note that these scholars are renowned leaders in their fields and taught for decades at some of the most prestigious universities in our nation: Harvard, Stanford, and MIT.…
• December 5, 2018

  Pentagon Papers: Vietnam’s Declaration of Independence

  Pentagon Papers, Volume 1, B-33 – B-34: On 26 August in a ceremony at Hue, the Emperor Bao Dai relinquished his power to Ho Chi Minh’s representatives. He spoke of “mighty democratic forces in the north of Our Realm,” and of apprehension that “conflict between the North and the South should be inevitable.” To avoid…
• August 29, 2018

  Henry Wallace and the “Century of the Common Man”

  Hi, I recently wrote an article titled Henry Luce and the American Century (Empire) where I quote the prevailing thoughts of what was to become American foreign policy strategy for years to come: As America enters dynamically upon the world scene, we need most of all to seek and to bring forth a vision of America…
• December 29, 2017

  Orwell on the Freedom of the Press

  The role of concentrated power in shaping the ideological framework that dominates perception, interpretation, discussion, and choice of action is too familiar. I’d like to review on one of the most perceptive analysts of this process, George Orwell. Orwell is famous for his searching and sardonic critique of the way thought is controlled by force…
• May 21, 2015

  On Heroism: Forced Troop Worship & Compulsory Patriotism

  Hi, The day before the 2014 Veteran’s Day, Salon published an articled titled You don’t protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracy. Below are some key takeaways: Put a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly…