Post number #321040, ID: 5b054e
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>>319994 Oh thats for sure something pretty new and innovative. I never heard about egoism as anticapitalism. Please explain it to me. Also regarding egoism consider this:
Ruler(s): public interest/egoism one: monarchy/tyrannis some: aristocracy/oligarchy all: democracy/ochlocracy
Source: Polybios, 200 v. Chr Pls ask if you have questions.
Post number #321045, ID: 5b054e
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>>321040 ok the cycle is not show properly^^ so take this: https://rajatghosh11.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/anacyclosis-of-polity3.gif
explanation: polybios distiguished between three types of ruling, based on how many rulers there are: one, two or all. Any type has a positive and a degenerated form, dependend on if the rulers decide in the public interest or egoistic. These forms are moving in a circle as shown in the graphic.
Post number #321049, ID: 5b054e
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>>321045 The universal maxim of capitalism is that everyone decides according to his ego. Now think about which impact it has on our three types of ruling. Right: Capitalism gives us the degeneration of all forms, even democracy.
Post number #321117, ID: 889502
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>>321040 First, Capitalism is still a hierarchy over the individual that separates them from their property which is everything that exists, and thus non Egoistic, because a only select few individuals would "own" everything, I say "own" because who actually own's a garden the landscaper maintains it or the person who pays for it to be maintained, as the landscaper has the splendor of water the plants and other activities that go into maintaining the garden, while the person who...
Post number #321118, ID: 889502
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>>321117 Pays for it's upkeep only looks at as if it were a painting that they didn't create, in short they surrendered the garden to landscaper, sure all property is their's (same with landscaper) but they are letting others to live for them instead living for themself.
Post number #321120, ID: 889502
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>>321118 Second, rational self-interest would want me to allow others to use my property as I can't, for instance, run a nuclear power plant alone or run it at all since I don't know how to but I need the power from it to live my life.
Post number #321128, ID: 889502
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>>321045 I recommend read the Ego and its own (as I am bad at explaining things) or at very least this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_egoists also the Union of Egoists section of this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Max_Stirner
Post number #321129, ID: 889502
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>>321128 reading
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