etplayer

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by etplayer 9y ago
How is a state which allows and encourages wage labour and trade 'communist'? Totalitarian everyone agrees on, as to whether it is Communist or Socialist other than in name is heavily doubtful. State intervention in a capitalist e
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by etplayer 9y ago
>Here it is again 'CP isn't wrong'. Yes it is, I don't see how you can think it's not. You haven't defined any criteria for 'wrong'; the person you are replying to is taking issue with the fact tha
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by etplayer 9y ago
The PROTECT Act specifically had provisions against even drawings of any kind, however those parts to my knowledge were ruled unconstitutional. On the other hand, there are various state laws against the material; I don't have a better
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by etplayer 9y ago
>But what if it's artificial child porn that looks like your child? I don't understand the problem. Let's assume that no real images are used as input to the artificial child image creation process. So what if it looks lik
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by etplayer 9y ago
Out of interest, in what way is harm increased? Does the same harm occur in cases in which the image is only being viewed?
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by etplayer 9y ago
I know you're being facetious, but under a Communist society it's likely that there would be several popular hobby projects, similar to open source community's efforts. Things like AIM would be developed in private or coopera
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by etplayer 9y ago
This was not a problem with Socialism, it was a problem with the form of economic planning used. We must also bear in mind that there are forms such as market Socialism. Neither the USSR nor Venezuela paid attention to cybernetic planning;
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by etplayer 9y ago
Automation certainly can benefit society (the majority of whom are workers), but in the way in which it is used at the moment does not benefit them in the fullest sense; they can take advantage of lower prices, but they can't take ad
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by etplayer 9y ago
>You're attempting to redefine the meaning of words to create a strawman Isn't this exactly what post-Marxian authors did? By the time Marx was writing, it was clear what capitalism was - the predominant employment of wage labo
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by etplayer 9y ago
>Capitalism is inseparable from a free market system. No, it's not; there exists market Socialism, for example. There also exists mutualism. I don't know where you're getting this from other than the idea that authors in f
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by etplayer 9y ago
>The US isn't even remotely close to being a free market system and hasn't been for decades. Where exactly did GP claim that it is? And why is regulation incompatible with a capitalist system? You are making the confusion tha
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by etplayer 9y ago
>American medical system is not capitalist but mercantilist. This distinction is made on the fallacious idea that "capitalism" is equal to a totally free market. This is a common confusion but false nevertheless. There is no re
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by etplayer 9y ago
>When Venezuela's economic ministers say things like "the law of supply and demand is a lie" to justify price controls They can't be very good Socialists then; Marx was a supporter of the law of supply and demand, and
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by etplayer 9y ago
But nevertheless in intrudes on the public sphere, to simply deny its effect on the culture surrounding it and the society which uses it is naive. The idea that businesses exist apart from everyone and everything is a pernicious one.
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by etplayer 9y ago
>So, I'm not sure if that's really xenophobic. A little nitpick, but "-phobia" suffix does not strictly mean fear, though that is its origin. It can also mean hatred. >Should a Mexican restaurant be pressured into
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by etplayer 9y ago
>We're primates, not pure energy beings that we can reprogram at will. Nobody doubts this; my point is that our current mode of production has a very strong effect on how we go about our daily lives and the attitudes that it influen
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by etplayer 9y ago
That said, there are modern Communist projects which rely not at all on agrarian population; they believe that education should be tailored to fit the current mode of production; for a view on this, you may be interested in Paul W. Cockshot
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by etplayer 9y ago
>It's because utopian projects are at odds with human nature This asks the question - what isn't at odds with human nature? Why do you think that utopian projects are necessarily at odds with human nature? Marx and Engels were
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by etplayer 9y ago
>did you ever stop to wonder why every communist state ends up the same? Communists have. Anarchists have. I know you're using the question rhetorically, it deserves an answer. Some say that it lies in praxis - the method in which l
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by etplayer 9y ago
Marginal economics seems to be rather popular, but I'm still a stickler for classical ideas of value personally.
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by etplayer 9y ago
>I mean, you were wrong then, and you're wrong now, and if you read the law you'd see that. Wrong about what, exactly? Images of children in sexual situations, or rather, as is described in the act, is illegal even to possess.
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by etplayer 9y ago
Would someone mind explaining why my comment was downvoted, and how I can improve my comments in future please?
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by etplayer 9y ago
As for drawings, the CAJA 2009 section 62 onwards deals with it.[0] As for publishing text online, there was a case of a man who wrote stories and was convicted I believe under the Obscene Publications Act, though the BBC article just says
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by etplayer 9y ago
No. Canadian too, Canada has frankly draconian laws when it comes to free expression and possession of pornographic fiction.
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by etplayer 9y ago
How do I chain VPNs together where I'm not giving my Tor requests to any of the computers between mine and the Tor network? I use a server at the moment to tunnel but French law requires them to store my history for a year after I&#x27
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by etplayer 9y ago
From the article: >Justice Adams said the legislation's main purpose was to combat the direct sexual exploitation and abuse of children that occurs where offensive images of real children are made. If he believes this, then why is h
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by etplayer 9y ago
It was stricken down at the federal level. I believe that laws still exist against it at the state level. Their validity, to my knowledge, has not been questioned as of yet. However there are such laws which remain, and in fact have been
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by etplayer 9y ago
The paper is at best center-left; you'll find no support for any Socialist parties, and they even make fun of Corbyn's labour from time to time. Being liberal doesn't mean 'left', either. The paper always (to my kno
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by etplayer 9y ago
Many countries in Europe (I would know beacuse I live in one of them) have laws forbidding you from possessing certain drawn pornography of fictional characters on threat of imprisonment. I would say we have our fair share of hideous or rid
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by etplayer 9y ago
One such alternative would seem to be Proudhon's anarchism (mutualism) or even Marx's (or his predecessor's) Communism, though I know this is generally an unpopular response, I see no reason why it has no merit.

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