RedCondor

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by RedCondor 3y ago
Yeah, it's tough out there. But there are really good resources out there, in growing number. I'm kinda optimistic!
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by RedCondor 3y ago
Oh, as narrowly as you pose it, not at all! Whoever manages capital best should manage it. If it's a three-way competition between workers, owners, and machines… may the best decision-maker win!
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by RedCondor 3y ago
I don't agree with your first paragraph at all. Capitalist countries were only able to edge out socialist economies by banking on their extant head-start and behaving socialistically (copying socialism in a light way—redistribution, wo
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by RedCondor 3y ago
The Hindus invented the "cycle of civilizations" and reincarnation to fatalistically resign themselves to their caste system. (Some benefit from this more than others.)
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by RedCondor 3y ago
The article I took that from discusses the communist answer to that question at length. https://redsails.org/communist-self-confidence/
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by RedCondor 3y ago
1. Humans invented God (and HaShem and the Almighty). God has always been a human creation. 2. Having invented God, humans then assigned to Him their own powers of creation. […] 3. Having projected thought onto a non-human and invented enti
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by RedCondor 3y ago
China is wrecking the US, by the way. Good luck with that!
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by RedCondor 3y ago
Every anti-socialist's favourite "socialist." What a surprise! I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
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by RedCondor 3y ago
If you want to believe this then that's on you.
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by RedCondor 3y ago
I provide reporting about how the CIA manipulated the Chilean economy to create the perception that Allende was a bad politician. In response you simply assert that Allende was a bad politician. Do you see the problem? I think the Americani
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by RedCondor 3y ago
Alternatively, palpably growing discontent with material conditions and depleting trust in America's ideological production considers the above account risible Whig history. The competing account is exactly opposite: the hitherto antiq
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by RedCondor 3y ago
>the stock market is exactly the opposite of real estate investing. Land is finite, capital is not. This is where you go wrong. Unlike posters defending real estate "investment," I'll criticize you from the opposite end: c
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by RedCondor 3y ago
>Prison labor has been a part of the U.S. economy since at least the late 19th century. Today it's a multi-billion dollar industry. Incarcerated people do everything from building office furniture and making military equipment, to s
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by RedCondor 3y ago
To whatever extent you want to misuse the term, America has more of a caste system than China.
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by RedCondor 3y ago
>[Kennan] envisions all of humanity destined to “melt into a vast polyglot mass,” with only the Chinese, Jews, and blacks remaining apart. “Could this mean that these three minorities are destined to subjugate and dominate all as an unea
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by RedCondor 3y ago
Cool joke. I encourage anyone on the fence between this libertarian and I to read the "Concessions" essay I linked up above.
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by RedCondor 3y ago
All so-called "capital returns" are in reality produced by working people, and therefore people get to democratically decide what they do with them, through whatever decision-making forms they politically choose and consent to org
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by RedCondor 3y ago
Marketers take a lot of credit for achievements that don't belong to them. Take, for example, Hayek's rather more honest commentary on vacations and human rights generally: > [The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights] is
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by RedCondor 3y ago
dang presents himself as a good fair arbiter then gimps any ML's ability to respond with sources against a dozen mediocre libertarians spouting the most vanilla ignorance imaginable. Great posts, though!
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UK Security Minister: No illegal activity on Chinese “overseas police stations”(theguardian.com)
1 points by RedCondor 3y ago|0 comments
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by RedCondor 3y ago
>Only if they lack political education.
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by RedCondor 3y ago
Socialists will once again get to explain how the capitalist welfare state was an unsustainable scam paid for by neocolonialism. Demonized socialist projects will come to be seen in a more authentic, positive light, and the fight for worker
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by RedCondor 3y ago
This isn't new. Historically, many great teachers of the workers have got around this with a little cleverness. It'll happen again.
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by RedCondor 3y ago
Only if they lack political education.
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by RedCondor 3y ago
Yeah the CPC eliminates poverty whereas the USG wages war. There's no comparison.
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by RedCondor 3y ago
I mean, I don't know what to say other than "this is wrong, as is clearly explained by the submitted link."
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by RedCondor 3y ago
The problem with this kind-of-definition is that it doesn't explain what makes capitalism unique. Slavery and feudalism also percolate wealth upwards, and, relatively speaking, capitalism provides more goodies to more people. You risk
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by RedCondor 3y ago
I disagree with all your empirical assertions about DPRK, etc. but let's put that aside. I think you underestimate two things: 1. The impossibility of straying from Marxism from a strictly scientific/historiographic point of view:
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What Is Capitalism?(redsails.org)
2 points by RedCondor 3y ago|7 comments
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by RedCondor 3y ago
100%.

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