In 1973 after a bitter intimidation campaign including the gassing of the island residents' dogs the Chagossian people were forcibly evicted from the British Indian Ocean Territory by the British...
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The Situation in the Chagos IslandsIn 1973 after a bitter intimidation campaign including the gassing of the island residents' dogs the Chagossian people were forcibly evicted from the British Indian Ocean Territory by the British...
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Isn't this more of a reason to support a politics...Isn't this more of a reason to support a politics that stresses scientific advancement? If there is a risk of a dark age, we should get to work trying to prevent it from happening and fast.
I'm...
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But science didn't cause these things to happen,...But science didn't cause these things to happen, greed did. Besides that science=/=technology, science=knowledge. Science is about learning more about our Universe. Technology is about applying it. I...
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Though most capitalists aren't aware of it, this...Though most capitalists aren't aware of it, this sort of ascension is possible and in their interests too.
It just seems so far off they don't consider it.
If it could be shown how this sort...
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Scientific Advancement to Liberate the MassesI know I'm about to get restricted for this. I've basically lost faith in Marxism, although I've taken a lot of great ideas from it in the process.
I've come to realize a more realistic way of...
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What About Class Structure in Socialism?No matter how egalitarian you make the organization informal hierarchies will exist. This is not a criticism against socialism, but a recognition of its limitations.
At first people aren't going...
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And that is the most deceptive division...And that is the most deceptive division capitalism has imposed upon workers, even able to convince most Americans not to identify as working class even though they objectively are.
For socialism...
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These issues should not be ignored, but they are...These issues should not be ignored, but they are essentially byproducts of capitalism. We should focus more on the main problem-capitalism and it effects everybody and everything in our daily lives....
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I was speaking with someone and they actually...I was speaking with someone and they actually admitted that socialism would work out better for most people, but that he didn't care enough and wanted to get rich. My guess is that this is secretly...
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You could consider Britain under Norman rule to...You could consider Britain under Norman rule to be a multicultural society. Most British people were Saxons. The rulers were Norman.
Not only did it work out over time they turned into one...
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The "asiatic mode of production" was based on a...The "asiatic mode of production" was based on a flawed understanding due to inaccurate reporting at the time. Can't really blame Marx for that.
The Asian countries were behind because they were...
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My change of language was because I saw Marx's...My change of language was because I saw Marx's theories of "dialectical materialism" and "historical materialism" as right and do think a state run similar to the Paris Commune could be acceptable.
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Yes, the point is to change it, but to change it...Yes, the point is to change it, but to change it the world must also be interpreted in order to determine the details of how it should be changed. Figuring out changes even for your own personal life...
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What about if one person tells another verbally:...What about if one person tells another verbally: "You have my permission to have sex with me for the next two hours even if I say no".
Then if the second person starts having sex with the first...
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"Labor aristocracy" is only a relative position...."Labor aristocracy" is only a relative position. In the end no capitalist is going to pay out the full product of someone's labor, unless it is by mistake and this would quickly be corrected with a...
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Nonstop verbal consent doesn't make sense.
If...Nonstop verbal consent doesn't make sense.
If I go to the barber shop and get a haircut and tell the barber to cut my hair when he's done can I complain that he did it without my consent because...
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I posted about this....I posted about this. http://www.topix.com/forum/topstories/TLEQHB9L3B34C2VCT
This is a news forum site where anyone can post. There's a lot of people from all over the political field on here,...
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I agree if they're too drunk to resist and a...I agree if they're too drunk to resist and a person takes advantage of that and has sex with them against their will then that's rape, just like it would be rape in any situation where a person has...
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So the conservatives have moved on in...So the conservatives have moved on in consciousness economically from feudalism to capitalism but are still stuck with the old feudalist cultural values.
There's a reason conservative liberalism...
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The Capitalist United States would never respond...The Capitalist United States would never respond that well to a disaster. Example, Katrina.
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Another one is the word "Proletariat" or...Another one is the word "Proletariat" or "working-class" itself.
Most Americans consider themselves "middle-class" and don't realize that Marx's "working-class" is referring to everyone who works...
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Not only that but that would make more sense. The...Not only that but that would make more sense. The Crusades actually conformed to what was said in the Bible.
Whereas Stalin, Mao, Kim Jung-Il followed nothing Marx said.
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Our Biggest Obstacle-Language!Dictatorship of the Proletariat:
Our definition: State run by the Proletariat.
Their definition: State run over the Proletariat.
Socialism:
Our: Economy run by the working class.
Theirs: Any...
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W.E.B. DuBois'-Renaissance of EthicsIs there anywhere online where I can find a reading of W.E.B. DuBois' Renaissance of Ethics?
I'm interested in seeing if and how these ethics contributed to socialist political thought,...
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Yes the "lumpen proletariat" is unfortunately a...Yes the "lumpen proletariat" is unfortunately a very fuzzy concept. There are enough class differences between a prostitue and her pimp that they really shouldn't be considered the same class....