Rachel Reeves on “Wealth Creation”

I posted a thread on “X” about the commitment the new UK Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, continues to…

Alexander Douglas in Genus Specious

Jul 3

Capitalism, “Science and Technology”, and Our Uninnovative Era

Alexander Douglas in Genus Specious

Oct 9, 2023

A poster showing workers in front of a plant with the words “LABOR CREATES ALL WEALTH” above it.

The Labour Theory of Value is Correct and Important

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Alexander Douglas in Genus Specious

Oct 28, 2017

McTaggart and Time-Inconsistency

Someone pointed out that my last post sounded a bit like McTaggart’s argument for the unreality of time. True, I’m usually thinking about McTaggart when I pretend to be thinking about something else. Unless I’m thinking about Spinoza.

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Alexander Douglas in Genus Specious

Nov 27, 2018

Does a Thought Exist?

One way of interpreting Descartes’s cogito argument is as an attempt to prove the existence of a thought. Begin with Descartes’s hyper-sceptical assumption, that everything you believe is false. Now formulate the thought ‘this thought exists’. If that is false, then it exists. And then it…

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Alexander Douglas in Genus Specious

Feb 14, 2023

Analytic Philosophy, Bourgeois Ideology

My friend Christoph Schuringa touched a real nerve with his Jacobin piece on analytic philosophy. What I took from his piece is, roughly, that analytic philosophy is bourgeois ideology. That’s to say, it is a research programme that ultimately serves the…

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Alexander Douglas in Genus Specious

Oct 28, 2019