For unity of song and dance

By Leo He Zhao

Zizek and his kind of Western academic leftists have a lot of good things to offer, but when they talk about dance music or dancing they are on a Creationist Museum level of utter stupidity.

They talk of collectivity, conviviality, connection, and empathy, but tragically are hermetically sealed from entire horizons of meaning which is rooted in such things, in social dancing cultures where sisterhood, brotherhood, and solidarity have a physical basis in the creative movement and mingling of bodies.

And this is of course the result of emerging from European cultural traditions entirely dominated by the proto-bourgeois aristocracy, with their "classical" cannon which demonises rhythm-focused musics and suppresses social dancing; and intellectual traditions which proceed from a divorce of mind from body.

And of course these sad, myopic, provincial, ignorant, and arrogant Euro-centrics think dancing is simply not that important a topic, like men born without testicles claiming, as if it's a universal truth, that sex is only a "set of obscene gestures".

https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-western-philosophical-canon-is-xenophobic-and-racist

Western philosophy is racist

Academic philosophy in ‘the West’ ignores and disdains the thought traditions of China, India and Africa. This must change

Bryan W Van Norden

is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple professor at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, professor of philosophy at Vassar College in New York, and chair professor at Wuhan University in China. His latest book is Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto (2017), with a foreword by Jay L Garfield. 

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Mainstream philosophy in the so-called West is narrow-minded, unimaginative, and even xenophobic. I know I am levelling a serious charge. But how else can we explain the fact that the rich philosophical traditions of China, India, Africa, and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas are completely ignored by almost all philosophy departments in both Europe and the English-speaking world?

Western philosophy used to be more open-minded and cosmopolitan. The first major translation into a European language of the Analects, the saying of Confucius (551-479 BCE), was done by Jesuits, who had extensive exposure to the Aristotelian tradition as part of their rigorous training. They titled their translation Confucius Sinarum Philosophus, or Confucius, the Chinese Philosopher (1687).

One of the major Western philosophers who read with fascination Jesuit accounts of Chinese philosophy was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). He was stunned by the apparent correspondence between binary arithmetic (which he invented, and which became the mathematical basis for all computers) and the I Ching, or Book of Changes, the Chinese classic that symbolically represents the structure of the Universe via sets of broken and unbroken lines, essentially 0s and 1s. (In the 20th century, the psychoanalyst Carl Jung was so impressed with the I Ching that he wrote a philosophical foreword to a translation of it.) Leibniz also said that, while the West has the advantage of having received Christian revelation, and is superior to China in the natural sciences, ‘certainly they surpass us (though it is almost shameful to confess this) in practical philosophy, that is, in the precepts of ethics and politics adapted to the present life and the use of mortals’.

The German philosopher Christian Wolff echoed Leibniz in the title of his public lecture Oratio de Sinarum Philosophia Practica, or Discourse on the Practical Philosophy of the Chinese (1721). Wolff argued that Confucius showed that it was possible to have a system of morality without basing it on either divine revelation or natural religion. Because it proposed that ethics can be completely separated from belief in God, the lecture caused a scandal among conservative Christians, who had Wolff relieved of his duties and exiled from Prussia. However, his lecture made him a hero of the German Enlightenment, and he immediately obtained a prestigious position elsewhere. In 1730, he delivered a second public lecture, De Rege Philosophante et Philosopho Regnante, or On the Philosopher King and the Ruling Philosopher, which praised the Chinese for consulting ‘philosophers’ such as Confucius and his later follower Mengzi (fourth century BCE) about important matters of state.

Chinese philosophy was also taken very seriously in France. One of the leading reformers at the court of Louis XV was François Quesnay (1694-1774). He praised Chinese governmental institutions and philosophy so lavishly in his work Despotisme de la China (1767) that he became known as ‘the Confucius of Europe’. Quesnay was one of the originators of the concept of laissez-faire economics, and he saw a model for this in the sage-king Shun, who was known for governing by wúwéi (non-interference in natural processes). The connection between the ideology of laissez-faire economics and wúwéi continues to the present day. In his State of the Union address in 1988, the US president Ronald Reagan quoted a line describing wúwéi from the Daodejing, which he interpreted as a warning against government regulation of business. (Well, I didn’t say that every Chinese philosophical 

WE MUST REVERSE REAGANISM BY ABOLISHING THE REAGANITE REPUBLICAN PARTY !

WE MUST REVERSE REAGANISM BY ABOLISHING THE REAGANITE REPUBLICAN PARTY !

Reagan started anti-Liberalism with that “tax-and-spend “ lie ; he exploded the military budget .

He cut LBJ Great Society programs .

Busted the PATCO Union

Came up with Star Wars Monstrosity

401-K’s making people dependent on stock market for pension while stealing money from Social Security

WE MUST REVERSE REAGANISM!

Reaganism is all about destroying yes they did ! Reaganism is all about destroying the New Deal , the War on Poverty and Civil Rights Acts .

Reagan turned New Deal Liberal into a dirty word -“tax and spend Liberals,” “ the government is not your friend, “ , cut welfare , bust PATCO u  ion , anti-Warren Court appointments, tax cuts for the rich  the New Deal , the War on Poverty and Civil Rights Acts .

Reagan turned New Deal Liberal into a dirty word -“tax and spend Liberals,” “ the government is not your friend, “ , cut welfare , bust PATCO u  ion , anti-Warren Court appointments, tax cuts for the rich

Obama was the beginning of the change left with the first reversals of Reaganism. Left in America in the 21st Century is Reversing Reaganism   . The initial reversal change came with Obama.

Sanders proposes to advance further left.

It’s Reaganism being reversed . It started with Obama’s actions . The reversal of Reaganism is the revival of the Great Society and the New Deal and the beginning of a New New Deal.

Reaganism: cut social programs that protect the People; seriously , no exaggeration . Government for Profiteers instead of People .

An important part of the Reaganite assault on FDR's New Deal IS reducing taxes on the Bourgeoisie. The top rate was 90% under the New Deal.

Here Reagan did a one two punch on the New Deal reduce taxes on the One Percent , and tax social security of the 99%

Reaganism is a 40 year Republican assault on trade unions initiated by Reagan’s firing the Air Traffic Controllers .

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/05/reagan-fires-11-000-striking-air-traffic-controllers-aug-5-1981-241252

What is Reaganism in 2016 ? It is rightwing government continuing the War on the Poor, neo-White Supremacy, escalation of the  arms race and warmongering, union busting. It was initiated by Reagan's Presidential leadership , but politically metastasized among millions of Americans , and was continued after Reagan's Presidency in the Gingrich Gang in Congress with its Contract on America; Bill Clinton's ending welfare as we know it, even, sadly; Bush's Crimes Against Peace in Iraq and Afghanistan and tax cuts for the rich;the tea Republicans and all current Republican Party Presidential nominees, and most Republican politicians with power , and Blue Dog Democrats for 35 years .

One of Obama's greatest political achievements is halting and reversing the federal War on the Poor with the first War on Poverty program since LBJ: Obamacare and opposing tax cuts for the rich. Obama has UNstayed the Reaganite course in the Presidency; Reagan's action was only in the Presidency at first; there were Democratic majorities in Congress for all his term. Reaganism spread to Congress and the states later.

Reaganism is all around anti-99% policies of government fraudulently presented as pro-working class; it is tragically successful demagogy.

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WE MUST REVERSE REAGANISM BY ABOLISHING THE REAGANITE REPUBLICAN PARTY !

Reagan started anti-Liberalism with that “tax-and-spend “ lie ; he exploded the military budget .

He cut LBJ Great Society programs .

Busted the PATCO Union

Came up with Star Wars Monstrosity

401-K’s making people dependent on stock market for pension while stealing money from Social Security

WE MUST REVERSE REAGANISM!

Reverse Reaganism has been the task of the 99% since 1980.

Not the Obama administration

Sam : "The "Better Business Climate" political/economic model for every presidential administration

 ( not the Obama administration )

since 1980 has pursued these three policies:

(1) Cut taxes, especially on the wealthy and large corporations,

(2) Cut government regulation, especially on high finance, and

(3) Cut government social spending.

To learn more about how that happened and what we need to do to undo the damage done, register for one of the "Reversing Runaway Inequality," 1/2 day, free workshops sponsored by Southeast Michigan Jobs with Justice, Communications Workers of America and Metro Detroit A. Philip Randolph Institute at semjwj2@gmail.com

Neo-liberalism is better termed Reaganism.  "Liberal" in the US since FDR represents proletarian victories in the contested state power . So, it is confusing and academically sectarianism terminology, counter-intuitive politically for the great mass of American voters to label Reaganism , neo- "New Dealism"/Liberalism.  The proletariat's main political task for 30 years has been to reverse Reaganism, Reaganonmics. Bring back LIBERALISM . That's why neo-liberal for Reaganism is academic disconnect to mass consciousness. It is also academic ultra-leftism , taking a sneaky swipe at the Democratic Party. Of course, Bill Clinton was significantly Reaganite; that's how bad Reaganism got to be. The worse is at the state level in many cases , as in Michigan , Englerites, now Snake Snyder.

With Obama , change has come; the Reaganite direction in the Presidency has been halted , and its reversal begun; the Tea Party struck back; but the All Peoples front and anti -Monopoly Coalition majority persists ; Obama , despite many Pickett's charges by the Neo-Confederates, has accelerated reversal of Reaganism at the Presidential level. So, Obama is a Neo-Rooseveltian.

We must reverse Reaganism !
 
To reverse Reaganism , we must elect overwhelming majorities of Democrats at state and federal levels . Much of Reaganism is at the state level.


“We have to undo the attack on the middle class that started with Reagan if we want democracy back
The destruction of the middle class is destroying democracies and paving the way for authoritarian rule

https://www.salon.com/2019/10/04/we-have-to-undo-the-attack-on-the-middle-class-that-started-with-reagan-if-we-want-democracy-back_partner/

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Women should lead the world

http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2022/03/antoinette-blackwell-quotes.html Kastonivich :

“As the Ignorance Clears
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I’ve said it again and again
That women should lead the world
Many make leaders with feelings
Against men their insults hurled

While the males had thousands or years
Making females second-class
We’ll think as the ignorance clears
Must give it a second glance

They have organizational skills
And will listen with their hearts
Know when baby’s suffering chills
Intuition off the charts

But mostly because they can talk
While walking at the same time
Fully function even in shock
Right on track with rhythm and rhyme
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written by Kastinovich
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Women have a multifaceted array of abilities, especially multitasking; they are, generally speaking, better listeners, communicators (a hearing-speaking connection in the brain), quite forgiving, more willing to put ego aside (for a cause), organizers, caretakers, nurturers, who will always find a way to take care of her people, and will even become mama bear when necessary. Sounds like ideal leaders to me. There’s a place for the men, too; they might focus more on fishing, hunting, cooking, cleaning the house, and tinkering in the garage, while the women focus on running local, state, and federal governments.
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