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  1. In a better world, I am #reading a focused route thru the political thought immediately preceding #AdamSmith in Wealth of Nations:

    1. Aristotle, Politics
    2. Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy
    3. Hobbes, Leviathan
    4. Locke, Second Treatise of Government
    5. Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
    6. Hume, Political Discourses
    7. Cantillon, Essay on the Nature of Commerce in General
    8. Quesnay, Tableau économique

  2. In a better world, I am #reading a focused route thru the political thought immediately preceding #AdamSmith in Wealth of Nations:

    1. Aristotle, Politics
    2. Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy
    3. Hobbes, Leviathan
    4. Locke, Second Treatise of Government
    5. Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
    6. Hume, Political Discourses
    7. Cantillon, Essay on the Nature of Commerce in General
    8. Quesnay, Tableau économique

  3. In a better world, I am #reading a focused route thru the political thought immediately preceding #AdamSmith in Wealth of Nations:

    1. Aristotle, Politics
    2. Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy
    3. Hobbes, Leviathan
    4. Locke, Second Treatise of Government
    5. Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
    6. Hume, Political Discourses
    7. Cantillon, Essay on the Nature of Commerce in General
    8. Quesnay, Tableau économique

  4. In a better world, I am #reading a focused route thru the political thought immediately preceding #AdamSmith in Wealth of Nations:

    1. Aristotle, Politics
    2. Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy
    3. Hobbes, Leviathan
    4. Locke, Second Treatise of Government
    5. Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
    6. Hume, Political Discourses
    7. Cantillon, Essay on the Nature of Commerce in General
    8. Quesnay, Tableau économique

  5. In a better world, I am #reading a focused route thru the political thought immediately preceding #AdamSmith in Wealth of Nations:

    1. Aristotle, Politics
    2. Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy
    3. Hobbes, Leviathan
    4. Locke, Second Treatise of Government
    5. Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
    6. Hume, Political Discourses
    7. Cantillon, Essay on the Nature of Commerce in General
    8. Quesnay, Tableau économique

  6. Growing up, I was always told to mock #socialism as a form of utopianism, as if that was a bad thing. #Utopianism was never a belief that something would happen, or that anything would be perfect. It was a thought experiment to consider what a perfect outcome would look like, so we could implement the ideas and get as close as possible. Meanwhile, #capitalism , #conservatism , #liberalism , and #libertarianism are just as #utopian in their dreams. Capitalism and libertarianism believe that if we JUST get government out of the way, we could have the #freemarkets work the way they are supposed to and lead to prosperity for all, never mind that corporations only exist because of #bankruptcy laws and standards created by Congress. Modern conservatism believes that if we just went back to a specific, unspecified time point when religion ruled, we would have prosperity again, never mind that America was never like that, even when we were at our most religious. #Liberals believe that if freedom, equality, and equity are guaranteed, but with a true free market that does require governments to regulate it, we would have true prosperity. The only difference is that #Marx , using arguments by #AdamSmith himself, poked holes in all of these ideas at their core. That the structure itself needed an overhaul of who holds power, or at least patched with a strong welfare state, and to work toward that utopian dream where the people held the power instead of the lords or #oligarchs and everyone was a lawmaker with direct democracy, there was a return of #thecommons that was just the norm for most of human history, and #personalproperty was something you physically used, erned and worked instead of from trading, hoarding and wasting while people starved aka #privateproperty . The day the lords stole the commons from the people was the day that socialism started to exist, with the Diggers and the Levelers attempting to take on the power of the lords and realizing they already ran their own villages, or communes and affairs in their areas, and the lords were just a middleman that contributed little to nothing. Hence the term #communism , which is a return to the natural commons people like #John Locke and #Voltaire and other #Enlightenment thinkers idealized, but capitalism has brainwashed people to ignore, forget, or never know in the first place they believed this while we were told to look up to them. Utopianism gives us the power to dream, to coalesce our ideas and our ideals. When we were told not to dream of our ideal world but were told to dream of their ideal, that's when the dream died and we just all became doomers.
  7. Growing up, I was always told to mock #socialism as a form of utopianism, as if that was a bad thing. #Utopianism was never a belief that something would happen, or that anything would be perfect. It was a thought experiment to consider what a perfect outcome would look like, so we could implement the ideas and get as close as possible. Meanwhile, #capitalism , #conservatism , #liberalism , and #libertarianism are just as #utopian in their dreams. Capitalism and libertarianism believe that if we JUST get government out of the way, we could have the #freemarkets work the way they are supposed to and lead to prosperity for all, never mind that corporations only exist because of #bankruptcy laws and standards created by Congress. Modern conservatism believes that if we just went back to a specific, unspecified time point when religion ruled, we would have prosperity again, never mind that America was never like that, even when we were at our most religious. #Liberals believe that if freedom, equality, and equity are guaranteed, but with a true free market that does require governments to regulate it, we would have true prosperity. The only difference is that #Marx , using arguments by #AdamSmith himself, poked holes in all of these ideas at their core. That the structure itself needed an overhaul of who holds power, or at least patched with a strong welfare state, and to work toward that utopian dream where the people held the power instead of the lords or #oligarchs and everyone was a lawmaker with direct democracy, there was a return of #thecommons that was just the norm for most of human history, and #personalproperty was something you physically used, erned and worked instead of from trading, hoarding and wasting while people starved aka #privateproperty . The day the lords stole the commons from the people was the day that socialism started to exist, with the Diggers and the Levelers attempting to take on the power of the lords and realizing they already ran their own villages, or communes and affairs in their areas, and the lords were just a middleman that contributed little to nothing. Hence the term #communism , which is a return to the natural commons people like #John Locke and #Voltaire and other #Enlightenment thinkers idealized, but capitalism has brainwashed people to ignore, forget, or never know in the first place they believed this while we were told to look up to them. Utopianism gives us the power to dream, to coalesce our ideas and our ideals. When we were told not to dream of our ideal world but were told to dream of their ideal, that's when the dream died and we just all became doomers.
  8. Growing up, I was always told to mock #socialism as a form of utopianism, as if that was a bad thing. #Utopianism was never a belief that something would happen, or that anything would be perfect. It was a thought experiment to consider what a perfect outcome would look like, so we could implement the ideas and get as close as possible. Meanwhile, #capitalism , #conservatism , #liberalism , and #libertarianism are just as #utopian in their dreams. Capitalism and libertarianism believe that if we JUST get government out of the way, we could have the #freemarkets work the way they are supposed to and lead to prosperity for all, never mind that corporations only exist because of #bankruptcy laws and standards created by Congress. Modern conservatism believes that if we just went back to a specific, unspecified time point when religion ruled, we would have prosperity again, never mind that America was never like that, even when we were at our most religious. #Liberals believe that if freedom, equality, and equity are guaranteed, but with a true free market that does require governments to regulate it, we would have true prosperity. The only difference is that #Marx , using arguments by #AdamSmith himself, poked holes in all of these ideas at their core. That the structure itself needed an overhaul of who holds power, or at least patched with a strong welfare state, and to work toward that utopian dream where the people held the power instead of the lords or #oligarchs and everyone was a lawmaker with direct democracy, there was a return of #thecommons that was just the norm for most of human history, and #personalproperty was something you physically used, erned and worked instead of from trading, hoarding and wasting while people starved aka #privateproperty . The day the lords stole the commons from the people was the day that socialism started to exist, with the Diggers and the Levelers attempting to take on the power of the lords and realizing they already ran their own villages, or communes and affairs in their areas, and the lords were just a middleman that contributed little to nothing. Hence the term #communism , which is a return to the natural commons people like #John Locke and #Voltaire and other #Enlightenment thinkers idealized, but capitalism has brainwashed people to ignore, forget, or never know in the first place they believed this while we were told to look up to them. Utopianism gives us the power to dream, to coalesce our ideas and our ideals. When we were told not to dream of our ideal world but were told to dream of their ideal, that's when the dream died and we just all became doomers.
  9. Growing up, I was always told to mock #socialism as a form of utopianism, as if that was a bad thing. #Utopianism was never a belief that something would happen, or that anything would be perfect. It was a thought experiment to consider what a perfect outcome would look like, so we could implement the ideas and get as close as possible. Meanwhile, #capitalism , #conservatism , #liberalism , and #libertarianism are just as #utopian in their dreams. Capitalism and libertarianism believe that if we JUST get government out of the way, we could have the #freemarkets work the way they are supposed to and lead to prosperity for all, never mind that corporations only exist because of #bankruptcy laws and standards created by Congress. Modern conservatism believes that if we just went back to a specific, unspecified time point when religion ruled, we would have prosperity again, never mind that America was never like that, even when we were at our most religious. #Liberals believe that if freedom, equality, and equity are guaranteed, but with a true free market that does require governments to regulate it, we would have true prosperity. The only difference is that #Marx , using arguments by #AdamSmith himself, poked holes in all of these ideas at their core. That the structure itself needed an overhaul of who holds power, or at least patched with a strong welfare state, and to work toward that utopian dream where the people held the power instead of the lords or #oligarchs and everyone was a lawmaker with direct democracy, there was a return of #thecommons that was just the norm for most of human history, and #personalproperty was something you physically used, erned and worked instead of from trading, hoarding and wasting while people starved aka #privateproperty . The day the lords stole the commons from the people was the day that socialism started to exist, with the Diggers and the Levelers attempting to take on the power of the lords and realizing they already ran their own villages, or communes and affairs in their areas, and the lords were just a middleman that contributed little to nothing. Hence the term #communism , which is a return to the natural commons people like #John Locke and #Voltaire and other #Enlightenment thinkers idealized, but capitalism has brainwashed people to ignore, forget, or never know in the first place they believed this while we were told to look up to them. Utopianism gives us the power to dream, to coalesce our ideas and our ideals. When we were told not to dream of our ideal world but were told to dream of their ideal, that's when the dream died and we just all became doomers.
  10. Sorry that Kshama Sawant lost her election yesterday, and the war mongering genocide denying Adam Smith will get another term in office. I'm really glad she ran though, we need more candidates talking directly about the working class, and forcing candidates and the media to talk about these issues.

    #uspolitics #kshamasawant #workingclass #adamsmith

  11. Sorry that Kshama Sawant lost her election yesterday, and the war mongering genocide denying Adam Smith will get another term in office. I'm really glad she ran though, we need more candidates talking directly about the working class, and forcing candidates and the media to talk about these issues.

    #uspolitics #kshamasawant #workingclass #adamsmith

  12. Sorry that Kshama Sawant lost her election yesterday, and the war mongering genocide denying Adam Smith will get another term in office. I'm really glad she ran though, we need more candidates talking directly about the working class, and forcing candidates and the media to talk about these issues.

    #uspolitics #kshamasawant #workingclass #adamsmith

  13. Sorry that Kshama Sawant lost her election yesterday, and the war mongering genocide denying Adam Smith will get another term in office. I'm really glad she ran though, we need more candidates talking directly about the working class, and forcing candidates and the media to talk about these issues.

    #uspolitics #kshamasawant #workingclass #adamsmith

  14. Sorry that Kshama Sawant lost her election yesterday, and the war mongering genocide denying Adam Smith will get another term in office. I'm really glad she ran though, we need more candidates talking directly about the working class, and forcing candidates and the media to talk about these issues.

    #uspolitics #kshamasawant #workingclass #adamsmith

  15. Interesting election today, Kshama Sawant challenges Adam Smith in Washington primary. It'll be difficult to defeat Adams, but he's clearly nervous and I hope they manage it.

    ballotpedia.org/Washington%27s

    #congress #politics #kshamasawant #adamsmith

  16. Interesting election today, Kshama Sawant challenges Adam Smith in Washington primary. It'll be difficult to defeat Adams, but he's clearly nervous and I hope they manage it.

    ballotpedia.org/Washington%27s

    #congress #politics #kshamasawant #adamsmith

  17. Interesting election today, Kshama Sawant challenges Adam Smith in Washington primary. It'll be difficult to defeat Adams, but he's clearly nervous and I hope they manage it.

    ballotpedia.org/Washington%27s

    #congress #politics #kshamasawant #adamsmith

  18. Interesting election today, Kshama Sawant challenges Adam Smith in Washington primary. It'll be difficult to defeat Adams, but he's clearly nervous and I hope they manage it.

    ballotpedia.org/Washington%27s

    #congress #politics #kshamasawant #adamsmith

  19. Interesting election today, Kshama Sawant challenges Adam Smith in Washington primary. It'll be difficult to defeat Adams, but he's clearly nervous and I hope they manage it.

    ballotpedia.org/Washington%27s

    #congress #politics #kshamasawant #adamsmith

  20. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
    -- Adam Smith

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AdamSmith #Economics

    #Photography #Panorama #BWCA #RoseFalls #Minnesota

  21. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
    -- Adam Smith

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AdamSmith #Economics

    #Photography #Panorama #BWCA #RoseFalls #Minnesota

  22. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
    -- Adam Smith

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AdamSmith #Economics

    #Photography #Panorama #BWCA #RoseFalls #Minnesota

  23. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
    -- Adam Smith

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AdamSmith #Economics

    #Photography #Panorama #BWCA #RoseFalls #Minnesota

  24. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
    -- Adam Smith

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AdamSmith #Economics

    #Photography #Panorama #BWCA #RoseFalls #Minnesota

  25. #datocurioso

    ¿Sabían que la mayoría de los abusos y monopolios económicos que la gente le atribuye hoy en día al capitalismo son en realidad características del mercantilismo?

    El mercantilismo fue el sistema económico predominante en Europa entre los siglos XVI y XVIII, basado en la idea de que la riqueza de una nación dependía exclusivamente de la acumulación de oro y plata. Para lograr esto, los reyes y gobiernos controlaban por completo la economía mediante la concesión de monopolios exclusivos a compañías aliadas a la corona, la imposición de altos aranceles a las importaciones y la explotación forzada de las colonias. En este modelo, el éxito económico no dependía de la competencia o de la calidad del producto, sino del favor y los privilegios otorgados por el poder político, limitando la libertad del mercado a beneficio de las élites gobernantes, similar a lo que pasa ahora donde el gobierno termina siendo aliado a grandes monopolios internacionales.

    Por el contrario, el capitalismo surgió precisamente como una respuesta opuesta a estas prácticas estatales abusivas. El mismo Adam Smith, considerado el padre del capitalismo, dedicó gran parte de su obra cumbre de 1776, La riqueza de las naciones, a criticar con dureza el sistema mercantilista por considerarlo ineficiente, corrupto y opresor para el ciudadano común. Smith argumentaba que la verdadera riqueza no reside en los metales acumulados por un rey, sino en el trabajo y en la libertad de producción e intercambio. Mientras el mercantilismo busca el control gubernamental y la creación de monopolios legales, el capitalismo real defiende la libre competencia, la propiedad privada y la ausencia de privilegios estatales para que cualquier persona pueda comerciar libremente.

    Recuerda:

    Mercantilismo = la alianza de el estado a ciertos monopolios y ciertos gremios evitando que los demás crezcan.

    Capitalismo = libre competencia, donde el estado solo debe servir como árbitro, pero no debe tomar partido ni tener favoritismos.

    ¿notas la enorme diferencia?

    — A. Eldritch, Periodista, Locutor, podcaster y bloger del fediverso

    Alt text via @altbot y @TeLoDescribot

    #Historia #Economía #Capitalismo #Mercantilismo #AdamSmith #DatosCuriosos

  26. U.S. House rejects Rep. Eli Crane’s measure to block Ukraine security aid

    The House of Representatives overwhelmingly rejected an amendment from Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) that would have barred Pentagon…
    #Ukraine #UA #Europe #Europa #EU #News #AdamSmith #Defense #EliCrane #House #HouseArmedServicesCommittee #HouseofRepresentatives #MikeRogers #NDAA #Pentagon #republicans #Russia
    europesays.com/ukraine/19752/

  27. "Just 'align the incentives' and let markets do the rest.

    This is an area where there's broad overlap between the left and the right. Chapter one of The Communist Manifesto is Marx and Engels' love letter to the incredible power of markets to improve everyone's material conditions by increasing production while lowering costs.

    Meanwhile, over in Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith comes to the same conclusion."

    #CoryDoctorow, 2026

    pluralistic.net/2026/07/16/luc

    #markets #economics #communism #AdamSmith

  28. "Just 'align the incentives' and let markets do the rest.

    This is an area where there's broad overlap between the left and the right. Chapter one of The Communist Manifesto is Marx and Engels' love letter to the incredible power of markets to improve everyone's material conditions by increasing production while lowering costs.

    Meanwhile, over in Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith comes to the same conclusion."

    #CoryDoctorow, 2026

    pluralistic.net/2026/07/16/luc

    #markets #economics #communism #AdamSmith

  29. "Just 'align the incentives' and let markets do the rest.

    This is an area where there's broad overlap between the left and the right. Chapter one of The Communist Manifesto is Marx and Engels' love letter to the incredible power of markets to improve everyone's material conditions by increasing production while lowering costs.

    Meanwhile, over in Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith comes to the same conclusion."

    #CoryDoctorow, 2026

    pluralistic.net/2026/07/16/luc

    #markets #economics #communism #AdamSmith

  30. "Just 'align the incentives' and let markets do the rest.

    This is an area where there's broad overlap between the left and the right. Chapter one of The Communist Manifesto is Marx and Engels' love letter to the incredible power of markets to improve everyone's material conditions by increasing production while lowering costs.

    Meanwhile, over in Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith comes to the same conclusion."

    #CoryDoctorow, 2026

    pluralistic.net/2026/07/16/luc

    #markets #economics #communism #AdamSmith

  31. If you are not familiar with one of my favorite Seattle politicians socialist Kshama Sawant, check out Chris Hedges' substack interview with our three time elected city council member who is now challenging moribund military industrial supporter (never saw a weapon he didn't like) Adam Smith who's been in Congress for nearly 30 years.
    #KshamaSawant #Congress #Seattle #AdamSmith #DeadbeatDems

    open.substack.com/pub/chrished

  32. If you are not familiar with one of my favorite Seattle politicians socialist Kshama Sawant, check out Chris Hedges' substack interview with our three time elected city council member who is now challenging moribund military industrial supporter (never saw a weapon he didn't like) Adam Smith who's been in Congress for nearly 30 years.
    #KshamaSawant #Congress #Seattle #AdamSmith #DeadbeatDems

    open.substack.com/pub/chrished

  33. If you are not familiar with one of my favorite Seattle politicians socialist Kshama Sawant, check out Chris Hedges' substack interview with our three time elected city council member who is now challenging moribund military industrial supporter (never saw a weapon he didn't like) Adam Smith who's been in Congress for nearly 30 years.
    #KshamaSawant #Congress #Seattle #AdamSmith #DeadbeatDems

    open.substack.com/pub/chrished

  34. If you are not familiar with one of my favorite Seattle politicians socialist Kshama Sawant, check out Chris Hedges' substack interview with our three time elected city council member who is now challenging moribund military industrial supporter (never saw a weapon he didn't like) Adam Smith who's been in Congress for nearly 30 years.
    #KshamaSawant #Congress #Seattle #AdamSmith #DeadbeatDems

    open.substack.com/pub/chrished

  35. If you are not familiar with one of my favorite Seattle politicians socialist Kshama Sawant, check out Chris Hedges' substack interview with our three time elected city council member who is now challenging moribund military industrial supporter (never saw a weapon he didn't like) Adam Smith who's been in Congress for nearly 30 years.
    #KshamaSawant #Congress #Seattle #AdamSmith #DeadbeatDems

    open.substack.com/pub/chrished