# Society, Government, and Economics **URL:** https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/c/philosophy-forums/society-government-and-economics/13.md [Latest](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/tags.md) --- ## [About the Society, Government, and Economics category](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/about-the-society-government-and-economics-category/16)
**Author:** [@system](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0
For discussions of culture, politics, economics, sociology, law, business and any other topic that falls under the social science remit. --- ## [Power has no nation or ideology](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/power-has-no-nation-or-ideology/86454)
**Author:** [@Rocken44](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Rocken44)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2026, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/power-has-no-nation-or-ideology/86454 "2026-10-19T18:58:21Z")
There is no socialism, communism, capitalism. There is no political left or right. There is no America or France or other country. Oh sure, these things do exist in their own way. But they are lies, fabrications, distra… --- ## [Michigan senator race](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/michigan-senator-race/86445)
**Author:** [@Peter\_Kropotkin](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Peter_Kropotkin)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2026, 5:47pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/michigan-senator-race/86445 "2026-10-19T17:47:03Z")
I haven’t been paying attention to this election cycle. My candidates in California will win and I can’t control anything else, so I am not paying attention… but I have come across some political stuff that really im… --- ## [A Study of Capital](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/a-study-of-capital/86280)
**Author:** [@Jakob](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Jakob)\ **Replies:** 157\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2026, 5:45pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/a-study-of-capital/86280 "2026-10-19T17:45:02Z")
First an analysis of Capital in terms of its Libidinal nature. History Capitalism proper was invented by the Dutch to sustain the colonial effort. They brought to life the first stock exchange in order to finance the v… --- ## [Why do the fans of the fallout video game series care more about that than the real world?](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-do-the-fans-of-the-fallout-video-game-series-care-more-about-that-than-the-real-world/86447)
**Author:** [@The\_Emotion](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/The_Emotion)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2026, 5:34pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-do-the-fans-of-the-fallout-video-game-series-care-more-about-that-than-the-real-world/86447 "2026-10-19T17:34:53Z")
The series creators and the fans have created a whole entire imaginary fantasy alternative world just to avoid and not deal with the real world why is this ? And is this a cult ? --- ## [Will they install Donald Trump for a third presidential term?](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/will-they-install-donald-trump-for-a-third-presidential-term/86357)
**Author:** [@MrAuthoritarian](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/MrAuthoritarian)\ **Replies:** 76\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2026, 11:46am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/will-they-install-donald-trump-for-a-third-presidential-term/86357 "2026-10-19T11:46:07Z")
Will they install Donald Trump a third presidential term if Wallstreet capitalism becomes threatened by socialist political revolution? Enjoy my voting poll. :clown\_face: poll --- ## [Utopia and/or Dystopia that IS the Questions n](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/utopia-and-or-dystopia-that-is-the-questions-n/85717)
**Author:** [@meno41](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/meno41)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [October 18, 2026, 7:20pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/utopia-and-or-dystopia-that-is-the-questions-n/85717 "2026-10-18T19:20:51Z")
It has recently surfaced that we as mortal beings have a choice in determining where we want to go. For a long time , at least in recalling modern history we have been bombarded with pronouncements on billboards, new age… --- ## [The Kennedys](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/the-kennedys/86436)
**Author:** [@MistressOphelia](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/MistressOphelia)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 18, 2026, 4:35am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/the-kennedys/86436 "2026-10-18T04:35:55Z")
I realise that it is a prolific family, but how many rapes, murders, suicides, lobotomies, ‘unexplained deaths’, fatal ‘accidents’, drug overdoses, plane crashes etc. etc …are normal for one family? I haven’t found a sin… --- ## [An attempt to deport a congressperson](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/an-attempt-to-deport-a-congressperson/86413)
**Author:** [@Peter\_Kropotkin](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Peter_Kropotkin)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [October 17, 2026, 11:42am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/an-attempt-to-deport-a-congressperson/86413 "2026-10-17T11:42:58Z")
apparently, the DOJ is building a case to attempt to deport congress person, Ilhan Omar… now given that it is way beyond illegal, and downright wrong, it sets a really bad message that anybody who is an American, can … --- ## [Democrats in the United States right now](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/democrats-in-the-united-states-right-now/86411)
**Author:** [@MrAuthoritarian](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/MrAuthoritarian)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [October 16, 2026, 5:42pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/democrats-in-the-united-states-right-now/86411 "2026-10-16T17:42:54Z")
Watch how right after the midterms leading up to the next presidency internet censorship and thought crimes are going to come in the public purview. “We cannot allow another Trump like presidency. Never again.” Wait fo… --- ## [Marxists, communists, and socialists should adopt free speech absolutism](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/marxists-communists-and-socialists-should-adopt-free-speech-absolutism/86412)
**Author:** [@MrAuthoritarian](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/MrAuthoritarian)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [October 16, 2026, 12:35am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/marxists-communists-and-socialists-should-adopt-free-speech-absolutism/86412 "2026-10-16T00:35:58Z")
I criticize libertarians and neoconservatives all the time regarding their worship of the rich, their religious like zeal regarding money, and poor choices of supporting economic capitalism. Nonetheless, there is on… --- ## [Theory: Sexual Capitalism](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/theory-sexual-capitalism/84789)
**Author:** [@MrAuthoritarian](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/MrAuthoritarian)\ **Replies:** 502\ **Last updated:** [October 15, 2026, 6:55pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/theory-sexual-capitalism/84789 "2026-10-15T18:55:14Z")
Theory: The love of women or females is largely transactional where the sexual behavior innate in them can be properly referred to as sexual capitalism. This transactional love for females is all about what males can of… --- ## [Republicans right now in the United States](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/republicans-right-now-in-the-united-states/86360)
**Author:** [@MrAuthoritarian](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/MrAuthoritarian)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2026, 9:32pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/republicans-right-now-in-the-united-states/86360 "2026-10-12T21:32:05Z")
“But if you don’t vote republicans in the mid terms the radical progressives of the democratic socialists will stop enforcing immigration altogether where we really will have open borders!” Not worried about it. By the … --- ## [Free Speech In America Sadly Wasted](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/free-speech-in-america-sadly-wasted/84346)
**Author:** [@MrAuthoritarian](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/MrAuthoritarian)\ **Replies:** 255\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2026, 1:47am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/free-speech-in-america-sadly-wasted/84346 "2026-10-12T01:47:17Z")
Nobody wants to talk about politics, current events, or differing opinions publicly anymore. “The subject is just too negative, I don’t need that kind of negativity in my life. I stay away from negative things.” “Tha… --- ## [The fall of civilizations](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/the-fall-of-civilizations/86325)
**Author:** [@Nausamedu](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Nausamedu)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2026, 11:07pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/the-fall-of-civilizations/86325 "2026-10-10T23:07:15Z")
The video threw the information together a bit haphazardly but it was still worth a watch to understand the larger, overarching patterns Every nation. Every golden age. Same problems and outcomes. --- ## [Reasons why humanity is failing the cosmic intelligence test (Universal Anthropology)](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/reasons-why-humanity-is-failing-the-cosmic-intelligence-test-universal-anthropology/86375)
**Author:** [@Rocken44](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Rocken44)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2026, 2:02am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/reasons-why-humanity-is-failing-the-cosmic-intelligence-test-universal-anthropology/86375 "2026-10-10T02:02:08Z")
So far and at least at the current point in our collective history, humanity is not passing the bar in terms of intelligence and survivability. Aliens looking down on us from above will observe and acknowledge this fact.… --- ## [how would nietzsche feel about Marxism? ](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/how-would-nietzsche-feel-about-marxism/85955)
**Author:** [@idkwhy777](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/idkwhy777)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2026, 2:24pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/how-would-nietzsche-feel-about-marxism/85955 "2026-10-08T14:24:30Z")
title tbh I would imagine he would see it similarly to how he saw Christianity + Nietzsche was more of an individualist than a collectivist but idk can anyone tell me? --- ## [Transhumanism is the total enslavement of humanity](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/transhumanism-is-the-total-enslavement-of-humanity/84280)
**Author:** [@MrAuthoritarian](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/MrAuthoritarian)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2026, 10:20am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/transhumanism-is-the-total-enslavement-of-humanity/84280 "2026-10-08T10:20:36Z")
Undoubtedly will ruffle the feathers of some members on the forum here but I do not look favorably at transhumanism at all. For me transhumanism is the final form of economic capitalism where it enslaves everybody throu… --- ## [A Thought on Bismarck](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/a-thought-on-bismarck/86370)
**Author:** [@Socrates](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Socrates)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2026, 2:30am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/a-thought-on-bismarck/86370 "2026-10-08T02:30:24Z")
When he said, in his later political life, France having long been defeated but considered a dormant threat, that the real war would be to the east, I do not think he meant a war of expansion. I think it’s as simple as t… --- ## [An astonishing sight](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/an-astonishing-sight/86367)
**Author:** [@Peter\_Kropotkin](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Peter_Kropotkin)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2026, 12:20am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/an-astonishing-sight/86367 "2026-10-08T00:20:56Z")
I saw a video clip the other day, of where IQ45 told a crowd that he was quite ok with Iran nuking LA or San Diego… but that wasn’t the astonishing part, we come to expect this sort of idiocy from IQ45, and clearly, … --- ## [In creating a political philosophy anew](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/in-creating-a-political-philosophy-anew/84329)
**Author:** [@Peter\_Kropotkin](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Peter_Kropotkin)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2026, 4:21pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/in-creating-a-political-philosophy-anew/84329 "2026-10-06T16:21:04Z")
As my prior attempt at this was drowned in crap, ‘‘An attempt at political philosophy’’, I am going to get these out before it too is drowned in nonsense… In reading the Declaration of Independence, one notices somet… --- ## [Book Banning?](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/book-banning/29213)
**Author:** [@Blurry](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Blurry)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2026, 10:34am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/book-banning/29213 "2026-10-06T10:34:29Z")
So I’m watching Anderson Cooper, and he’s talking with Dr. Phil about a book that is currently on sale on Amazon.com that is basically promoting/teaching about pedophilia. The book is called “The Pedophiles Guide to Love… --- ## ["But what if there were no police?"](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/but-what-if-there-were-no-police/85269)
**Author:** [@Mary-Poppins](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Mary-Poppins)\ **Replies:** 114\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2026, 11:44am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/but-what-if-there-were-no-police/85269 "2026-10-05T11:44:25Z")
I don’t know, Hell’s Angels or something. Would that really be so bad? --- ## [Why aren't anti racists and anti sexists able to stop racists and sexists?](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-arent-anti-racists-and-anti-sexists-able-to-stop-racists-and-sexists/86218)
**Author:** [@The\_Emotion](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/The_Emotion)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2026, 2:01pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-arent-anti-racists-and-anti-sexists-able-to-stop-racists-and-sexists/86218 "2026-10-03T14:01:18Z")
Aren’t anti-racist people and anti-sexist people in the majority shouldn’t this be an easy endeavor since they are probably in the majority of people ? --- ## [Political Systems in The EU and Elsewhere](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/political-systems-in-the-eu-and-elsewhere/86335)
**Author:** [@Socrates](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Socrates)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2026, 6:26am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/political-systems-in-the-eu-and-elsewhere/86335 "2026-10-03T06:26:50Z")
The US is proof that democracy can work. It goes astray at times, but eventually corrects itself. But this is only because it has a thoroughly healthy populace or, in any case, one where citizens are capable of thinking … --- ## [Foreign immigration, political conservatism, and economic capitalism](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/foreign-immigration-political-conservatism-and-economic-capitalism/85398)
**Author:** [@MrAuthoritarian](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/MrAuthoritarian)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [October 2, 2026, 8:51pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/foreign-immigration-political-conservatism-and-economic-capitalism/85398 "2026-10-02T20:51:02Z")
I grew up in a time of the United States in the late eighties and early nineties where a majority of the population was some sort of European admixture variety. Back then white Europeans made up about 85-90% of the natio… --- ## [What is the wisest way to resolve a topic meanwhile being slandered](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/what-is-the-wisest-way-to-resolve-a-topic-meanwhile-being-slandered/86342)
**Author:** [@pseudoai](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/pseudoai)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 2, 2026, 8:36pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/what-is-the-wisest-way-to-resolve-a-topic-meanwhile-being-slandered/86342 "2026-10-02T20:36:26Z")
Sometimes in life you want to solve an issue along with people that slander you in the meanwhile. How would be a wise way you go about solving the issue, in particular if you don’t think that slander has anything to do w… --- ## [Socialists Are Destructive by Definition](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/socialists-are-destructive-by-definition/86187)
**Author:** [@Socrates](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Socrates)\ **Replies:** 128\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2026, 5:25pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/socialists-are-destructive-by-definition/86187 "2026-10-01T17:25:31Z")
What does it mean to make money? I means engaging in an activity which generates more than it consumes. What does this mean, 2 lb of wood go in and 3 lb of wood go out? Obviously, generation is a complicated thing to co… --- ## [Verified human](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/verified-human/86306)
**Author:** [@Rocken44](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Rocken44)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/verified-human/86306 "2026-10-01T16:57:09Z")
As AI will take more and more jobs and positions, and online acting like real people in social media, and on forums.. the call to verify if someone is real that is going to be very important. The only way to do that is t… --- ## [Down and out inside America- collected memories](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/down-and-out-inside-america-collected-memories/84149)
**Author:** [@MrAuthoritarian](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/MrAuthoritarian)\ **Replies:** 173\ **Last updated:** [September 30, 2026, 8:34pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/down-and-out-inside-america-collected-memories/84149 "2026-09-30T20:34:46Z")
There was a night homeless walking in the snow inside a blizzard with the temperature being negative fifteen degrees I approached a bridge because I seen a fire smoldering inside a steel barrel drum from a distance. Th… [Next page](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/c/philosophy-forums/society-government-and-economics/13.md?page=1)