Show threadGemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Oct 28, 2023

I also added to my BitTorrent server #JohnSherwinCrosby's "#TheOrthocraticState (1915) and an 1885 edition of James #Bronterre O'Brien's "The Rise, Progress, and Phases of Human Slavery: How it Came into the World, and How it Shall be Made to Go Out". O'Brien was one of the foremost leaders of the #Chartist movement in the UK.

I come back to these books over and over again, because they are foundational to my personal #philosophy #ethics, and #morality.

Show threadGemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Oct 28, 2023
When I say "thousands of years", I mean that quite literally. #Mengzi demonstrated understanding of this in the 5th Century BCE. So did #Aristotle in the 3rd Century BCE. So did #ThomasPaine in the 18th Century CE. So did James #Bronterre O'Brien and #HenryGeorge in the 19th Century CE. So did #JohnSherwinCrosby in the 20th Century CE. So must we in the 21st Century CE. #philosophy #history
xameerApr 23, 2021
#Bronterre - anti-capitalist polemic: "True political economy is like a true domestic economy; it does not consist solely in slaving, saving; a moral economy as well as political...These quacks would make wreck of affections, in exchange for incessant production, accumulation...