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Authoritarianism is at heart of US capitalist 'liberal democracy' (with historian Aaron Good)

Geopolitical Economy Report

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The Modern State and Its Importance

Aaron Carroll: The idea that politics can just be rooted in what's logical and rational is actually kind of similar to the Ben Shapiro worldview. He says there are other philosophers who look into these areas like liberalism emerges as enlightenment emerges but this one has a fetishization of you know  the state, he adds. Carroll: As well as being irrational and illogical his argument was also that the monarch the sovereign would then do act act in a way that follows reason so i tip my cap to you for waiting in enough to be able to even say what his worldview would be because i couldn't take it so props you for that.

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