Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,630
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This is the grave of Jelly Roll Morton. Perhaps born in 1890 in New
Orleans, Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe grew up in the mixed race community of
that city, w...
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To think I just got chastised on Christofferson's blog because Waukesha County votersdon't take their own interests to heart.
ReplyDeleteFrom a philosophical point of view, I'd point out that Marxism was really the proponent of political action arising from self-interest, and even created an entire historical theory around the concept of the actions of class self-interest. Much of the literature of the Left is focused on raising class self-interest and a possible collective action as result of the "class consciousness."
It's often conservativism, in it's rejection of ideology, that rejects the notion of self-interest as a political motivating force but instead recognizes it as a natural occurence.
Of course, then there are the Randians, but I can't lose sleep over a philosophy of rough sex on a pile of money.
Wait, wait. What's this "rough sex on a pile of money" thing you're talking about?
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