Give Them an Argument
By: Burgis Ben
3.75
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Many serious leftists have learned to distrust talk of logic and logical fallacies, associated with…
Want to Read $ 10.99"Good reasoning isn't primarily about being loud and confident and good on your feet. Those are skills worth developing—as humans, we're built to respond to all of that—but those aren't the things that make people good reasoners . The right-wing Logic Brigades give people the impression that caring about logic means dogmatically applying a few simple principles to everything and ignoring the fine-grained contextual differences between superficially similar situations. That's exactly wrong. If you actually care about getting the arguments right, you need to slow the hell down and pay attention to the subtleties."-Burgis Ben, Give Them an Argument
"Good reasoning isn't primarily about being loud and confident and good on your feet. Those are skills worth developing—as humans, we're built to respond to all of that—but those aren't the things that make people good reasoners . The right-wing Logic Brigades give people the impression that caring about logic means dogmatically applying a few simple principles to everything and ignoring the fine-grained contextual differences between superficially similar situations. That's exactly wrong. If you actually care about getting the arguments right, you need to slow the hell down and pay attention to the subtleties."-Burgis Ben, Give Them an Argument
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By: Vladimir Lenin
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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
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"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
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3. Das Kapital
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4.22
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Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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4. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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5. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
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"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
6. Propaganda
By: Edward L. Bernays
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4.24
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18. Give Them an Argument
By: Burgis Ben
3.75
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Many serious leftists have learned to distrust talk of logic and logical fallacies, associated with… read more
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