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by ue_ 9y ago
The very fact that we are talking about student loans, inflation, destroying the dollar and income (wage-labour) means that we are talking about capitalism; though other actors within a capitalist economy by virtue of having more military o
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I'm posting right now on what is by and large a forum hostile to anti-capitalist thinking; this is the very opposite of me being in an echo chamber. Many "decent" jobs require at least a university degree, which almost always
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by ue_ 9y ago
I agree, this is what I was trying to get at.
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>Don’t blame capitalism because capitalism would never support the artificial cost inflation caused by government intervention. What is capitalism other than the system of predominant wage-labour, private ownership of socially producti
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by ue_ 9y ago
I think it's possible to critique both systems; the American (capitalist) system in which you need to pay huge amounts for education in order to have the mere chance to get a job that's above sustenace wage, the system screwing
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by ue_ 9y ago
I think your analysis is correct; regardless of one's personal sympathies it's important to get the terms correct when discussing these issues. I think the image of what Socialism is has been corrupted based on misinterpretations
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by ue_ 9y ago
Your definitions of Socialism and Communism are almost entirely false and lacking in any reference to the founders of the movement, their usage in the disciplines of philosophy, political philosophy and sociology, and historical meaning. So
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by ue_ 9y ago
This leaves me to think why it is considered best practice to separate work and friendships. It's certainly not frowned upon in most places to make friends with your coworkers, to go for drinks after work or to meet up on weekends.
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Interesting, the concept of dialectic stretches all the way back to Plato, even though Hegel (and later Marx) are most known for it. The Socratic dialectic operates by the principle of questioning, and through questioning internal inconsi
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by ue_ 9y ago
Quite often people don't get what they ask for; if they did then my point about politicians taking money would be completely moot; this is why direct democracy is gaining traction; having a direct democracy with rotating or random de
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I agree that "capitalist democracy" is an oxymoron, but I come from the exact opposite side from Thiel; I believe that a democracy cannot function within capitalism when politicians can be bought off, and there is no democratic co
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In my judgement it's not worse at all; we live in a world in which the content that actually has an impact on people is hidden no longer behind publishers but online centralised platforms; it is only appropriate that those publishers b
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How would you trigger a remote wipe?
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> The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord Very much this, though I must also recommend his Comments on it, for the reader who has a hard time penetrating the critique. I have a short list of related books at the bottom of this comment
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by ue_ 9y ago
>The ideas were certainly interesting, but had no real provable basis, and just seemed to be the reasoned expression of one author's individual sense of alienation - more like artistic expression than any real solution to the dilemm
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That may blur the line between proletarian and bourgeois, but it does not invalidate the idea of class conflict within Marxism nor Marx's other critiques of capitalism such as commodity fetishism and alienation. Although you are very c
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by ue_ 9y ago
Somewhat off topic, but I'm becoming to realise that reading product pages like this is sort of like reading only the advertising pages of a magazine, but in this case I have the choice of what advertising I want to view; it's not
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by ue_ 9y ago
That's true, I have my parents if things go wrong; the thing is that before I started university last year my parents convinced me not to get a student maintenance loan (i.e what pays for my living expenses and rent). Instead I get a s
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by ue_ 9y ago
You say that Deliveroo has shitty working conditions and I probably don't disagree (I know nothing of them), but I'm a second year university student and I'm being pressured to find a job by my parents while I'm here; De
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>Oh, you don't toe the PC line? You must be a rayciswhitemale. Apparently not being an anti-semite is being "PC"?
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What exactly are the priors for the idea that there is a group of people you call "cultural Marxists", who have done this, and further that they have done it? The standard version of the "cultural Marxism" conspiracy the
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>I think the lgbbq movement was a cultural Marxist conspiracy against the institution of the family unit If this isn't sarcasm/irony, what's your evidence for this conspiracy? (Edit: Why is this comment downvoted? Is it fr
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by ue_ 9y ago
On a similar note, Marcuse noted two things in his essay Repressive Tolerance : - If democracy is truly power to the people, then the people should have any power, including the power to subvert their own democracy. These democratic channe
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by ue_ 9y ago
>Including, I believe, a rather massive body of drawings and animation films from Japan (I'm thinking of Hentai involving underage schoolgirls). This is not illegal at the country-level in the US, however such laws do, hideously in
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>The problem with your logic is that you would need an extra $3,000,000,000,000 ON TOP of the value currently paid out to the workforce Why? Those already making sufficient (i.e more) than the basic income wouldn't receive extra mon
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> 1. No true Scotsman Have you heard of the "fallacy fallacy"? The idea that calling out a fallacy merely invalidates the whole argument. Please explain how I have made the fallacy. >to support the vast majority of society l
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>100's of millions of people are coming out of abject poverty. That's often overlooked. I very much agree. People on my side of the political spectrum often dismiss how much good capitalism has done to people, especially those
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I know what you mean, but I wasn't even espousing an opinion here; I was offering the view of a particular school of economics which has found a recent resurgance in academia from names like Anwar Shaikh and Richard Wolff. I simply can
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The Marxian response, although unpopular, is the rate of exploitation has increased. For Marx, technological development leads to more constant capital versus moving capital (i.e more machinery and tools of production) being employed which
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This is a problem which has, unsurprisingly been attacked from the angle of Marxian economics rather than only orthodox economics; Andrew Kliman who is particularly famous within Marxian economics for his TSSI solution to the charges of Mar

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