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Adam Gurri's avatar

Thanks for the intellectual/political biography, it answered some things I was curious about myself. It also answers why, though I consider myself a fairly boringly conventional liberal (but not a centrist, I reject the very idea the term implies) I find a lot of common ground with the things you write. It seems obvious to me that techno-economic structural factors determine the range of possibilities for how societies can be organized, but also that finding your way to some desirable corner of that range is the work of politics (and never mind the fact that the techno-economic itself is the work of people advancing theoretical and practical knowledge through their efforts). That said, I would never call a society either rational or irrational; ultimately political and social orders are contingent, fragile accomplishments, achieved through luck as much as skill, and if they are durable, there is probably *some* logic to them that makes "sense" in terms of the characteristics of the society. That doesn't make them morally desirable, or even the best possible order from a purely practical point of view, so it's not cause for complacency. Still I can't see it as irrational or as contradictory; I'm simply too un-Hegelian.

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Fardowza Nur's avatar

It’s interesting to read your political biography. I understand your annoyance with American left, I feel the same way in Italy too. Now they have elected young lesbian woman. She is too smart and passionate. We will see how it goes. Italy has Catholic Church influence. Personally I believe center party could bring better competitiveness. I believe in socialism that functions well in the era of technology power. Human Jobs should be saved from AI and automation & robots. I know comunism well because I studied in Romania during Nicolae Ceaușescu era, so socialism failed in East Europe, But better left should be advanced.

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