That's stupid, those totalitarian regimes hand picked his ideology because choosing to value free speech and representative government would obviously not be in their best interest, obviously this Terry Eagleton fails to understand the basic functionalist concept that factors in humanities tend to be inter-related.
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Anonymous2011-04-21 2:57
communism and socialism have nearly ruined libralism in the 20th century. unless you base it in secular humanism all liberal ideology is doomed to fail because unless you beleive that human beings are inately good and worth saving to begin with your going to accomplish nothing but spreading fear and violence.
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Anonymous2011-04-21 3:03
Libralism should focus on human rights
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Anonymous2011-04-21 11:38
>>4
The librul care about "human rights" is just another one of their smoke screens. They don't actually give two shits, and using government to guarantee your "rights" ? Fantasy. Government is the one which takes them away!
>>3
>unless you beleive
Reality has nothing to do with "Beliefs"
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Anonymous2011-04-21 12:46
>>5
>Reality has nothing to do with beliefs
Oh really? So how do we determine this reality? Are you the guy who tells us what it is? And why should we believe you?
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Anonymous2011-04-21 13:23
5>> yeah and what about your right to own property? doesn't the government protect that?
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Anonymous2011-04-21 14:31
marx must be spinning in his grave every time an american calls marxist ideals "liberal"
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Anonymous2011-04-23 22:15
>>5
Yeah I love how government took away my right to a safe workplace, paved roads, and a postal system. Fuck those assholes.
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Anonymous2011-04-24 11:03
>>9
Postal system lol What are you? Like 93 years old or something?
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Anonymous2011-04-24 13:42
>>9
Because none of that can be done by the free market better and cheaper?
Liberals always scared of doing things themselves.
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Anonymous2011-04-24 18:13
>>11
Worked SO well with the phone companies, huh?
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Anonymous2011-04-25 3:14
>>12
Yes it did, that's why we now have mobile phones, internets and all sorts of gidgemagadgetry.
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Anonymous2011-05-06 11:53
>>13
You wouldn't have all these if they didn't need them to keep an eye on us.
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Anonymous2011-05-06 15:56
>>14
They know I use the vibration feature to anally masturbate? Good.