My colleague in the NWYJ, Neil Chowdhury, has written an article regarding the “failure” of Communism. I find this article inherently flawed as both a product of its presupposition and its argumentation, and thus I shall respond to several of his points and elaborate on his interpretations of Marx by
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Today, much of the world enjoys historically high living standards, and productive economic forces have caused creation of enormous amounts of wealth. However, concurrently, gross poverty and wealth inequality face the developing third world and the proletariat of the industrialized world. In addition, renascent far-right authoritarian and religious fundamentalist groups
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Utilitarianism is often used in conjunction with the term “consequentialism”. This is the belief that all that determines an action’s morality is action’s consequences. Utilitarian’s also believe that a “moral” act increases happiness the most, for the most number of people. [1] There are two main theories of Utilitarianism: act-Utilitarianism
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The Athenian philosopher Zeno of Citium founded Stoicism, a school of Hellenistic philosophy, in the third century BCE. [1] It emphasized the possession of a will that acted in accordance with nature. Essentially, as Epicetus, a first century CE Greek Stoic philosopher, stated, a Stoic could be “sick and yet
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Not so recently, Jeremy Rabkin wrote an article for the conservative paper “The Weekly Standard”. The Weekly Standard is mainly composed of individuals from conservative think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute, the Ethics and Public Policy Institute, and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. All of these institutions
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