Lanky_Fella

Lanky_Fella t1_j1rmkb8 wrote

What’s locke’s value? He was the key philosopher of settler-colonialism and his Carolina constitution was one of the first to ever inscribe slaves with zero rights where previously the owner had rules of how they had to treat them. Dude was a hardcore slavery/colonialism thinker who developed the idea of terra nullius, that if you’re not building on the land you don’t have the right to own it.

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Lanky_Fella t1_j1rma4n wrote

I wouldn’t say he’s the most famous or influential. Plus it depends what you Count as modern. People like Sartre, Camus, Marx, Foucault are probably used more, even if not read more.

I think part of Nietzche’s appeal is his kind of exotic topics, he’s talking about atheism and power and depression in a highly spiritual and fantasy sense as a social outsider. I think a lot of people, particularly young men, might find that appealing.

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Lanky_Fella t1_itogxsj wrote

Eh not really. People fighting in Ukraine are fighting in the name of sovereignty.

People fighting in Spain were specifically anti-fascists, often socialists. They were seeking either a revolution or changed politico-economic system, where Ukraine is fighting to maintain the same system

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