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The Case For Defeatism


The Case For Defeatism: On Giving Up and its Virtues - Medium

Defeatism is disparaged as a philosophy for the weak. It isn't. Defeatism at its core is an embrace of inevitable loss: it is acceptance, ...

Defeatism - Wikipedia

Defeatism is the acceptance of defeat without struggle, often with negative connotations. It can be linked to pessimism in psychology, and may sometimes be ...

Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not ...

It just means saying we will keep showing up. That we will not give up. That we will assess our powers and weaknesses and recognise that the ...

Against Democratic Defeatism - The American Interest

Stasavage makes the compelling case that democracy—the desire to have agency and restrain power from above—is a deeply human instinct. Moreover, ...

Dispel the Defeatism Holding Your Team Back

Giving up the ghost is a real option, but if you are a manager in a declining business or even a flat lining one, defeatism can be used as a ...

Defeatism - Freedom Alliance

The “wrong war, wrong strategy,” “no way to win” and “not worth the cost” arguments didn't begin with Vietnam; they have been commonplace in ...

Revolutionary defeatism, yesterday and today - Tempest Collective

Now the war in Ukraine has caused a raging argument over tactics and strategy—and a complete disagreement over the role of imperialism in the ...

Defeating Defeatism: A Critique of the Dispensational View

... defeatism that must be repentant of as well. Then, in section 2, I will present a Biblical case for optimism. Instead of viewing the world ...

Hal Draper: The Myth of Lenin's "Revolutionary Defeatism" (Intro)

(3) Then defeatism means desiring defeat of one's own government, as Lenin indeed often stressed [3*] (Zinoviev too, for that matter!). But there is still a ...

Defeatism - Cambridge University Press

There might be a sort of indirect policy which favors the defeat of one's own country without wishing in the least for the victory of the enemy. In this case ...

The Democratic Party's Strange Attraction to Defeatism

What has changed is that his intraparty skeptics have begun succumbing to defeatism. Having passed through the stages of denial, anger, and ...

Self-Sabotage and Success: Breaking the Habit of Defeatism

I still struggle with my fickle mind and inclination towards defeatism but I realize now that the fear is power, it is drive and motivation.

Some times "revolutionary defensism" is justified and necessary ...

And in that case I would say that Lenin's idea about Revolutionary defeatism wouldn't have been a good line to take then. Defense" is a nice ...

Analysis: How defeatism undermines tougher gun laws | PBS News

World-weary defeatism is self-fulfilling in its own way, and helps explain why Washington hasn't taken action to address the killing.

The Practical Policy of Revolutionary Defeatism - Cosmonaut

The logic of revolutionary defeatism flows from the basic Marxist premise that the proletariat is an international class, and that in order ...

The Dangers of Defeatism for Ukraine - Foreign Affairs

Since the war began, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has been tirelessly and eloquently making a case for Ukrainian victory, both on ...

Joubert: Revolutionary Defeatism - Marxists Internet Archive

[13] None of these mentions 'revolutionary defeatism'. However, their argument is centred round 'transforming imperialist war into civil war' and the formula of ...

On defeatism and mental fortitude - Protesilaos Stavrou

An excerpt of a private exchange on how to cope with defeatism and keep the mind healthy ... the case of overthinking, of making a mountain out of ...

Defeatism - The New York Times

Throughout this crisis, people like Adam Posen and yours truly have been basing our arguments on standard textbook macroeconomics, whereas the ...

Revolutionary Defeatism in World War II - World Socialist Web Site

The trial began on October 27, 1941 and ended nearly six weeks later, on December 8, 1941, one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the day Roosevelt ...