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Plumb, Square, Level

2020-03-11 · 837 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Plumb, Square, Level — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "Even socialists, Marxists, and revolutionaries seem to have lost their belief in the future; the old shibboleths come r
Plumb, Square, Level — pen and ink drawing

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"Even socialists, Marxists, and revolutionaries seem to have lost their belief in the future; the old shibboleths come rolling off their lips, but it is as if they cannot keep the scales from dropping from their eyes."– Joseph Epstein "Let's go back to our point of departure: the contested issues of freedom and rights, hence sovereignty, insofar as it's to be valued. Do they inhere in persons of flesh and blood or … in abstract constructions like corporations, or capital, or states? In the past century the idea that such entities have special rights, over and above persons, has been strongly advocated. The most prominent examples are Bolshevism, fascism, and private corporatism… Two of…

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