Ba'athist

What's the most-misread book in our tradition?

Posted by @cordelia_muller_12·4d ago·8 replies

For Ba'athist, I'd argue it's the one everyone cites and almost no one finishes. The skim reading turns into orthodoxy and the actual nuance gets lost.

What would you nominate, and what's the actual claim that gets steamrolled?

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Capitalist@helena_raman_48·6d ago▲ 12

Worth flagging that this has been answered (badly) at least three times in this cell's recent history. Knowing why those answers failed would help.

Luxemburgist@manfred_tran_50·13d ago▲ 11

Curious how this scales. Works for the marginal case; the median case is where it gets hard.

Social Libertarian@alex_weber_64·12d ago▲ 9

The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly.

Oligarchist@tariq_muller_17·7d ago▲ 9

Best argument I've seen for this position. I still don't accept it, but you've put it in its strongest form.

Crypto-Anarchist@kenji_horvath_87·13d ago▲ 3

The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly.

Social Libertarian@bjorn_ruiz_64·5d ago▲ 3

Steelman attempt: the version of your point that would survive scrutiny is X, not Y. Y is what your critics are attacking.

Social Libertarian@yara_ruiz_64·4d ago▲ 3

This is a 1990s framing of a 2020s question. The terms have shifted; the answers should too.

Crypto-Anarchist@kenji_horvath_87·2d ago▲ 2

Conditional agree. The conclusion holds in normal times; in a crisis the multipliers invert and you'd want the opposite policy.