#geuss

[ilovegaming420]

Guessing Game Who IS this??

[paineperdu]

August 31st - Ellman

Today I am reading Michael Ellman's Socialist Planning, and I am reminded at one particular juncture of Raymond Geuss' short text Philosophy and Real Politics. Ellman discusses the later periods of socialist planning, saying

Even in those countries where the situation after the reforms were introduced was better than before, there was still widespread dissatisfaction with the economic system. For example, in Hungary in the 1970s and 1980s there was widespread dissatisfaction with the steady increase in the gap between Hungarian and Austrian living standards. In China there was widespread dissatisfaction with corruption, oppression, and environmental deterioration. Similarly, policy makers in Hungary in the 1970s and 1980s were envious of the economic achievements of Western Europe, and in China were conscious both of the lag behind the advanced countries and the need for further economic reforms.

The careful reader may notice (as one would earlier in the text) the relatively unelaborated distinction between "advanced" and "backwards" nations and national economies, but we will leave that aside for now. I remember Geuss' advice to ask the question, after Lenin "Who, whom?" - who is doing what to whom? Political life is often characterized by propositions that hide human action - "unemployment has increased" disguises "some number of employers have chosen to fire some number of employees." The Ellman passage lacks a whom, but it nevertheless brings to mind the question "who is dissatisfied" - policy makers, perhaps? This is not to argue with Ellman on the level of the presence of dissatisfaction - this is not apologetics - but it seems to be a lacking detail that is not necessarily outside the scope of the text.

[cosmiccomics23]

"average bug has 3 dead non-binary siblings" factoid actually just statistical error. average bug has 0 dead non-binary siblings. Genders Hornat, who protects a cave and has over 10'000 dead non-binary siblings, is an an outlier adn should not have been counted

[1bittten2shy]

i think aboutvthis sometimes. why is wallter so tall ok big ben

[jessenitrogen]

ultra magnus design for an au

[partoftinystar]

Magical Moutin fusion!

gem au as well as spinel Scar and Pearl Joel by @chrisrin

Yee so this design is both bases of chris design of the two and well as magical mountain from last life, also they more of a fancy fusion since joel is dimond's pearl, they both have swords as weapons so they get long combined sword

so yea evil wizard go brrr

also their fusion dance is a magic girl transformation sequence cuz i say so >:)

[cowardlybean]

Guess what I binge watched

NOT A SHIP. BEGONE

[thisdastampdoesnotexist]

[crazymanicherelmao]

A drawing that have designs of Greek gods and goddesses that I will absolutely change later

[thesleepypencil]

Pov : Your an artist with a computer that can't glaze

[lemonfreshlysqueezed]

Khaotungs characters provoking firsts into loving him

Ayan 🤝 Ray

Gif by @sollucets Gif by @xceanlynx

[apileofmoss]

turn yourself into art !!!!!

[yayee-prsp]

The new Taiwan orv sword and shield art…….

[chupapijules14]

Color practise hell yeah >:DD

Woah woooooaaah wow ((unrendered version under the cut tw: it's a mess))

[burningfeathersx]

[Stares into the camera.]

Damn it.

[pr11de]

Can't believe shane "eat the rich" madej would back this decision. What was that saying again? Something something living long = villian (sarcasm)