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[Anonymous No.14010291]

Recommend center-left (non-socialist) political philosophy

[Anonymous No.14011288]

>>14010291

Centrism is death

[Anonymous No.14011293]

[Anonymous No.14012856]

>>14011293
Everything in that list aside from Kropotkin is utter trash.

[Anonymous No.14012881]

>>14011288
Centrism is intelligence. With being passionate for either political party, especially these days, you are losing part of what makes you, you.

The people who have read older intellectual literature from aristocratic times know exactly what I'm talking about: there is a lot of personality and independence in those writers.

[Anonymous No.14012922]

>>14010291
The centre left, at least in America, is the most intellectually vacuous and morally shallow part of the political spectrum, the absolute embodiment of midwittery.
Just go centrist, conservative or one of the extremes like everyone else.

[Anonymous No.14012976]

y'know, this is what i think. So, there's this anime called Space Dandy, right? it's an anime about a space dandy who gets up to many comical misadventures with a NEET otter and some roboto. Anyway, that isn't important. What is important, is that there is one episode of space dandy where Dandy (the titular space dandy) is contacted by his four-dimensional ex girlfriend to help her with another ex of hers, who is a clingy guy from the second-dimension who is trying to break into the third (and presumably fourth) dimension so he can be with her. Anyway, near the end of the episode, the big space gorilla baron which is always chasing Dandy gets caught in the collapsing dimensional drive and experiences a regression of dimensions, from the third, which is the one we see (well, technically the entire show is in two-dimensions, but that isn't important), to the second dimension, which is basic shapes, to the first dimension, which is just lines. This raises the question of what it would be like to see from the different dimensions, which reminds me of this video my math teacher showed us in primary school about shapes in shape land. Anyway, so we, who had a top-down view, could see shapes in their full rotundity. However, when we get the perspective of the shapes, they only see growing and shrinking lines. Now, this is how i think of people who talk about the political spectrum: they're basically the shapes from shape land, or the space gorilla baron, who can only see a line which characterises for them their entire political understanding. If i haven't shown it clearly enough by my reference to space dandy, i have provided a magnificent visual demonstration i made in paint. Of course, i'm not saying that all of politics is a triangle, as some may think it, but only using this as demonstration. Basically, what i'm saying is that compared to space dandy's four dimensional ex girlfriend, which represents a better understanding of any political position, your idea of thinking that a dot on a compass, of left and right, is the space gorilla baron trapped in the collapsing dimensions drive, y'know?

[Anonymous No.14012983]

>>14010291
>2019
>having hope in politics

[Anonymous No.14013001]

>>14012856
lol no

[Anonymous No.14013035]

>>14010291
wealth of nations
federalists papers
two treatises of governance
on liberty

free to choose
why nations fail

[Anonymous No.14013126]

>>14010291
Keynes and Rawls

[Anonymous No.14013373]

>>14010291
George isn't "center-left". The guy was an imperialist and literally advocated annexing Canada by force so he's pretty far on the "centre-right".
The idea of a land tax was considered dangerously subversive in the 19th century but I'm pretty sure most of the wealthy would love to get rid of capital gains and everything else and just have a land tax since most of their wealth isn't in land.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14013431]

>>14010291
I read Hobhouse. Admired Roosevelt and Francis Perkins for a time. Still have a little bio on Keynes and I wonder if I’ll ever make time to read it.
“Center-left” just tries to reform the inherent problems with capitalism. Progressivism, social-democrats. So I include Bernie Sanders and AOC with them, no matter how much they say the like socialism. Tons of writing on them.

[Anonymous No.14013493]

>>14013035
Federalist Papers is more center-right desu

[Anonymous No.14014563]

>>14013493
Reading the federalist papers is quite interesting but has almost no bearing on the utter mess that is contemporary America

[Anonymous No.14014853]

>>14013431
Is the biography by Skidelsky?

[Anonymous No.14015343]

besides him are there any interesting land tax only tax ideas