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ITT: based political philosophers
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>individuals create commonwealths for protection, out of necessity
>the State may do anything to its citizens, as they consented to subjection
>absolute monarchy is best monarchy
>democracy sucks
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How about you post their names since not everyone recognizes their faces.
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>>388295
Thomas Hobbes.
Main work: Leviathan
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>>388278
Also:
>the State is an organism, the king is its mind, his decisions are its decisions, his spirit is its spirit
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>>388295
git gud
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>man is wicked and ignorant
>especially liberals
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Let's make a monarchy and call it a republic so the plebs won't be upset. Also banks are fucking based.
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>>388782
>muh natural freedom
>muh natural property
>muh natural rights
>muh tripartite state
>Sir Robert Filmer REEEEEEEEEEE
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1. REVOLUTION
2. TERROR
3. VIRTUE
4. ??????
5. PROFIT
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>>388799
Forgot pic.
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>let me write a 500 page book about what the problems of democracy are in extreme detail
>solutions? lol
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We're doomed.
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>I like socialism and atheism because I also like science, and I'm an aristocrat
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More authority pl0x
Also seriously fuck the Freemasons I mean for real god damn
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>>388278
>fascism iz da best lol
>We two dear men, friends forever, were here. If you want to know our names, they are Giovanni and Benito.
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Remember what Marx said about historical stages and the necessity for a politically-conscious working class and all that? Well how about we use illiterate peasants instead?
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>>388278
Prepare for trouble.
>be a Nazi
Make it double.
>but also a communist
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>>388844
>workers' revolution? Lol no, vanguard party.
>some unfeasible anarchist utopia? Lol no, vanguard party.
>international revolution? Lol no, communism in a single state
>collective ownership? Lol no, state capitalism.
>also some repression
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Poland can into democracy.
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>>388844
No no no guys, you got it all backwards. What Marx means by 'withering away of the state' is that we should first beef up centralized authority, suppress democracy, nationalize everything and put it under the control of bureaucrats and maintain the Czarist secret police!
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>>388278
>this thread is haunted
>spooks lol
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