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Why Do Political Societies Exist?, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Why Do Political Societies Exist?, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Our Constitutional Logic details three overarching purposes of political societies considered as constructs within civil or bourgeois society: (1) promoting of private wealth (and its counterpart goal: avoiding wealth destruction); (2) disabling hostility to minorities identified as such; (3) setting a threshold by which minorities (in coalition) may block organic change.
The Standard Model At War, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The Standard Model At War, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
In 1775-1776 a North Atlantic superpower’s thirteen provinces found themselves maneuvered into a declaration of independence and (the inevitable) follow-on recognition war. The empire’s strategic goal was clear: force the rebels into the open, crush them while vulnerable, and unleash a program of post-rebellion oppression which would enrich superpower loyalists and establish their (and imperial) political ascendancy. Our Constitutional Logic offers, preliminary to a complete survey, considerations pertinent to the wartime provenance of America’s political society as founded under the standard model.