One guy was experiencing sensory overload and told the crowd to cool it so now a certain part of The Dirtbag Left is dunking on him and trying to say it makes us all look weak to everyone else. Bunch of reactionary bullshit that disgusts me.
It's because American culture places a high emphasis on "work ethic".I don't care for this idea that the goal of socialism is so that you can be lazy.
That isn't the goal, but liberating people from useless busywork is absolutely one of the benefits of a socialist society.I don't care for this idea that the goal of socialism is so that you can be lazy.
Yes I agree.I don't care for this idea that the goal of socialism is so that you can be lazy.
To teach my kids a lesson about socialism, I gave all my kids a list of chores that I thought they could handle, but set their allowances at the same level. Then I had the CIA murder me and install a puppet dad.
Quarantine is some reddit feature where a subreddit ceases to be linked on the front page I think?
r/t_d was quarantined recently I recall.
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Probably some tanky threads?
El Chapo was a cesspool
All I can comment is that, it seemed like MLMs and MLM-sympathetic types in the Philippines supported Duterte in 2016. Even when Marcos' coffin was moved by Duterte's order to the Cemetery of Heroes, they were still in support of him. And then after a few months, Duterte declared a war on Leftists.Surely this time the revolution will succeed!
To be serious though, I'm not so hot on ML or MLM. I'm not certain it's possible for a top down implementation of socialism via revolution to succeed.
Carter's piece seemed like exactly the kind of argument that's turned Quillette, a self-described "platform for free thought," into a hotbed for the right-wing online "Intellectual Dark Web" movement. Carter had impeccable blue-collar bona fides, with his Quillette bio describing him as a committed union member who's always "watching the Mets blow a lead."
But there's one problem with Carter's story: He doesn't exist.
DSA members started picking holes in Carter's story almost as soon it went live on Quillette. New York City's DSA local couldn't find any record of a member, current or former, named Archie Carter. And while Carter claimed to have participated in sit-in protests as part of his DSA work, the group hadn't organized sit-ins in New York in years.
By Thursday evening, Quillette had retracted Carter's essay, saying Carter had failed to "supply answers to our follow-up questions in timely fashion."
Quillette should have had other reasons to suspect the hoax. The one DSA meeting Carter described had already been written about in New York magazine, suggesting that Carter had just cribbed the scene from that article. In his essay, the ostensibly Marxist-Leninist Carter praised community organizer Saul Alinsky—who never embraced communism but who has become a sinister figure for Fox News viewers.
"That Alinsky stuff was bullshit. I've never read Alinsky, I thought it would be a nice hook. I fucking heard it how many times from my dumbass family? I figured it'd work."
"That Alinsky stuff was bullshit," the hoaxer told The Daily Beast. "I've never read Alinsky, I thought it would be a nice hook. I fucking heard it how many times from my dumbass family? I figured it'd work."
Ronny and Thatcher were the first Neo-Liberal leaders.Well yeah when pulling a new religion out of your ass
Only thing I know about May is that she was in the conservative party and she failed to deliver a Brexit deal and had to resign.
Thatcher of course is infamous for terrible policies, as well as also being conservative, and what I heard makes her sound like a female Ronald Reagan.
So I'm guessing that it's not really an insult and the real gaffe is that Biden means it as high praise and shows he is reverential towards conservative Reagan-esque political leaders?
I've been reading through the Mormon scriptures recently and it's pretty funny how Joseph Smith tried to set up a utopian communal organization (the United Order) when communism is portrayed by the LDS church as an evil "secret combination" in the style of the Gadianton Robbers.
To be fair, the UO still had private property, but it seems like Smith was just copying the trends of his day wherever he could (new revelations, utopian commune, Masonic rites, etc.)
Generally I just hear "factory work sucked hard but it was better than farming" regarding the shift. Anyone know of any good examples of what Marx described?Thus were the agricultural people, first forcibly expropriated from the soil, driven from their homes, turned into vagabonds, and then whipped, branded, tortured by laws grotesquely terrible, into the discipline necessary for the wage system
I'm reading an overview (a long ass overview) of the commodity-form in Capital and I came across this quote, regarding the move from subsistence farming to urbanized factory work -
Generally I just hear "factory work sucked hard but it was better than farming" regarding the shift. Anyone know of any good examples of what Marx described?
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New Atheism has its own sacrificial altars.Another day causally enforcing cultural erasure and colonialism on the "left-leaning" site ResetEra.
I have a bad habit of reading stuff out of order. :P I'd like to find more info, though. Most people assume our current system evolved because it was naturally more efficient and productive. I'd like to find more evidence that it was partially shaped by power structures acting in their interests at the expense of others.Sounds like he described the failings of Stalin's collectivizations...
anyway, doesn't Marx provide examples of forced expropriation and primitive accumulation in 16th century England in Capital l?
Edit: https://libcom.org/history/bloody-legislation-against-expropriated
Correct and correct.
As far as "laziness" under socialism goes... I believe strongly that people want to work and contribute to their communities as long as they don't feel like they have to otherwise they will starve and die. You give a population shelter, food, and comfortable living, and eventually they will want to do their part. Help build houses, run power plants, create art, whatever, but we strive to create meaning in our lives, and it's a big reason religion has endured across eons.
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