kunimu

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by kunimu 9y ago
I agree, however the Communist form is merely a re-telling of the capitalist form, it results from the same contradictions, the same process, and has the same result. Under the states of the past the control is unhidden and in fact presente
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by kunimu 9y ago
Communism is not a 'utopia' in the sense that everyone is happy all the time. It aims simply to do away with certain problems, just as public health services don't do away with every problem in your life. Your insinuation tha
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by kunimu 9y ago
Upon second reading, that makes more sense, however it would be clearer if this were the case. "Chinese Communism" can refer either to the ideology which the CCP claim to adhere themselves to, or it can refer to the actual state-c
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by kunimu 9y ago
I'm not so sure what is meant by it. Adherents of Marxism-Leninism utilise the method of dialectical materialism to analyse the past and to provide a model for the structure of the future based on the resolution of dialectical contradi
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by kunimu 9y ago
There is similar problems with the software that runs pacemakers and other such devices, in which the source is not made available. The protection of users against themselves is an easy example of the intrusion of technological rationality
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by kunimu 9y ago
The most strange bugs have the strangest solutions. Just an hour ago I was trying to debug a queueConstructor (it returns a malloc'd pointer to a queue data structure), right after I finished implementing the operations for a stack dat
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by kunimu 9y ago
>For a long time only banking websites and retail checkout pages were encrypted. For my experience, this still holds in Japan, and I've heard in Korea.
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by kunimu 9y ago
>I'm sure the people in Eastern Europe who were conquered and enslaved by the Soviets wished that the Allies had kept rolling east. Do you have a citation that this was the general feeling in those countries, or only among those peo
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by kunimu 9y ago
This is precisely where the criticism that the USSR was "state capitalist" came from; it operated as a corporation owning its own means of production, not a dictatorship of the proletariat. "All power to the soviets" fad
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by kunimu 9y ago
>but no, This Time It Will Be Different®. Why do you think strawman thought-terminating cliches are an acceptable level of discourse? At best they serve to be distracting and needlessly hostile. >but you keep insisting in trying again
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by kunimu 9y ago
>Every single time, over dozens of times, it resulted in bloody dictatorships. It is very much worth studying why this has happened and what kind of methods can be used to avert it. Not only is Marxism-Leninism not the only form of Soc
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by kunimu 9y ago
This kind of attitude from your parent commenter is extremely common, it is an artifact of ideology and the working of technological rationality into the consciousness. While the parent commenter probably believes he or she lives in a post-
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by kunimu 9y ago
This is precisely correct. I think the replies to you are missing a very central point (speaking as if the accusation of advocating Marxian Communism was a serious charge, too). Perhaps the important authors about the relationship between
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by kunimu 9y ago
It is entirely possible to be a skeptic of capitalism, its application and its effects while engaging in a market in which capitalists provide goods and services. It is also possible to do so and sell your own labour-power (which is what wo
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by kunimu 9y ago
>Then there is the political criticism along the lines of George Orwell and some Luddites: technology is a tool for control and domination either by governments or evil capitalists. I would not describe it like this. Proponents of techno
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by kunimu 9y ago
Not only that, but popular stations have barriers which are erected between the platform and the track. Whether these are there to prevent suicide or merely stop someone from falling onto the track, I don't know.
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by kunimu 9y ago
This is precisely true. The ideological currents within bourgeois economy and politics do so much to promote false consciousness. On the other hand, most people do not view themselves as ideological, but is that not the paradox? To accept i
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by kunimu 9y ago
When I say "company" I mean such an organisation as which employs wage labour to further the accumulation of capital; such an organisation could not exist under a Socialist mode of production, at least in my understanding. This is
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by kunimu 9y ago
Rubbish. The status of being a proletarian has nothing to do with in what form the labour is expended. Neither Marx nor pre-Marxist Socialists make any specific mention of manual labour. But if you really want to go this way, a growing numb
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by kunimu 9y ago
A democratically run company is still an owner of private property, the fact that citizens have a say is irrelevant to the idea that property is privately owned. This is evident in the case in which the State is an actor on the global stage
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by kunimu 9y ago
You are correct. For this reason, if the bar for "Socialism" is "seizing property" then the US also qualifies for "Socialism". Few would call the US "Socialist". For this reason, I do not think that t
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by kunimu 9y ago
I am not redefining the term. The common understanding of "Socialism" is far divorced from what Marx and Engels were talking about, or even their predecessors such as Owen or Ricardo. The confusion over the term is evident, especi
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by kunimu 9y ago
Private property is not determined by its owner, but rather its function. Ordinary people can own private property, such as land which is taxed or rented out, means of production upon which people are employed etc. It is a fact that the Ven
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by kunimu 9y ago
Naming an example of a seizure of private property does little to show against the idea that the State respects and protects private property. I do not deny that is has seized private property, however private property in many cases continu
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by kunimu 9y ago
It's also important to note that the definition of Socialism as being merely state ownership of most or all production and "complete management of the economy" is a vulgar definition, sometimes even expounded by Socialists th
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by kunimu 9y ago
Venezuela also respects private property, just to a somewhat lesser extent than other countries. It's important to note that the state's protection of such property is to be expected in this case, in which it is the government whi
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by kunimu 9y ago
On their own they don't mean anything, however the first four may appear and indeed do as multiple words on their own, or as part of other words. Japanese has many homophones.
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by kunimu 9y ago
This is partially true. Economics originated in the field of political economy , which was at the time for lack of a better word, bourgeois . The political economists existed in a sense only to advise the government and monarchies on econ
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by kunimu 9y ago
The GPL license does not support that notion either.
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by kunimu 9y ago
Nobody is denying the freedom for commercial use is a core part of open source software. However no developer has to make a certain business model easy for you, and I think it is well within the correct view to discourage such a business pr

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