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by hamper653 1mo ago
> angle it to look as if you're casually holding it or using it normally. So you film the ground?
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by hamper653 1mo ago
What should cartel members do to successfuly integrate in the US? Buy more guns?
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by hamper653 1mo ago
> If you think the US is doing more harm than good, you are allowed to move and surrender your citizenship. Actually, I have heard that it’s very hard, if possible at all, to surrender American citizenship. It’s a real problem for some p
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by hamper653 1mo ago
And that’s not good?
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by hamper653 1mo ago
So did we.
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by hamper653 1mo ago
Class war.
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by hamper653 1mo ago
I don’t believe you.
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by hamper653 1mo ago
> I feel like a lot of people just take “thoughts” and label that philosophy. Isn’t that just philosophy?
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by hamper653 1mo ago
There is no ontological difference between: - a worker taking a few weeks of paid rest as a compensation for working several months, - and a worker taking a few years of paid rest as a compensation for working several decades. Whatever prac
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by hamper653 1mo ago
Are you also counting workers on vacation? On a weekend? At home after their shift?
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by hamper653 1mo ago
In socialism, you wouldn’t be paid. That’s the whole point.
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by hamper653 1mo ago
Are you counting retired workers?
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by hamper653 1mo ago
Rate of profit = Exploitation rate ÷ (1 + Organic composition of capital)
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by hamper653 1mo ago
So by "working", the author really means "working for a wage"?
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"The modern state, no matter what its form, is essentially a capitalist machine, the state of the capitalists, the ideal personification of the total national capital."
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by hamper653 1mo ago
"The bourgeoisie has at last, since the establishment of modern industry and of the world market, conquered for itself, in the modern representative State, exclusive political sway. The executive of the modern state is but a committee
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by hamper653 1mo ago
> Some historians have argued that the ensuing radar arms race was more consequential to the war’s outcome than the Manhattan Project. No kidding?
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by hamper653 1mo ago
> People are only allowed to vote on pre-defined options that are decided entirely in private That’s democracy in its purest form.
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by hamper653 1mo ago
American presidents are notoriously not elected by the people.
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by hamper653 1mo ago
Are you telling me the US don’t actually make anything, not even their guns?
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by hamper653 1mo ago
> In English, the word 'discrimination' can (and in this social context may) imply social prejudice or unfair treatment. In French as well. But it’s obviously not what’s meant here.
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by hamper653 1mo ago
> Not sure exactly what the point of quoting Marx at me was supposed to be... You’re 178 years too late. "Reshoring" was a pipe dream then, it is even more of a pipe dream now. > What is your solution? What makes you think t
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by hamper653 1mo ago
> by shutting them down you free up resources (including human expertise) that can be used elsewhere. To buy coal?
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by hamper653 1mo ago
> Every single nuclear watt is being subsidised and has been for decades. This is just plain false. In the 1990s and early 2000s, EDF was generating a whole lot of profit, which it wanted to reinvest. The governments of the time (both le
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by hamper653 1mo ago
> Mine is re-shore all industry "The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of Reactionists, it has drawn from
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by hamper653 2mo ago
> Then No.
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> Am I secretly German? Probably.
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by hamper653 2mo ago
Doesn’t mean they don’t. Odds are, they do.
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by hamper653 2mo ago
He is Turkish?
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by hamper653 2mo ago
Workers must be doubly free. "For the conversion of his money into capital, therefore, the owner of money must meet in the market with the free labourer, free in the double sense, that as a free man he can dispose of his labour-power a

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