i made something that might be of interest to (some) revlefters. it's the biggest pack of noam chomsky stuff ever. it has ~25 books and over 150 hours of audio:
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Download some Noam Chomsky! It's educational!i made something that might be of interest to (some) revlefters. it's the biggest pack of noam chomsky stuff ever. it has ~25 books and over 150 hours of audio:
thepiratebay ....
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I'm almost hesitant to post this for fear of...I'm almost hesitant to post this for fear of misunderstanding you:
Black box voting has almost nothing to do with the United States, because being a capitalist state, it does not need to rely on...
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Some anarchist.Some anarchist.
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Are we talking about the physical destruction of...Are we talking about the physical destruction of the earth, or just the human race?
If it's the latter, it's amazing that almost NONE of you named the REAL threats to survival.
Nuclear wars,...
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Wait, you realise that bombing and invading other...Wait, you realise that bombing and invading other countries is terrorism, right?
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If I want to.
Under capitalism, yes.
...If I want to.
Under capitalism, yes.
Weird.. I wrote "new society", and you read "communism"!
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This thread does a very poor job of explaining...This thread does a very poor job of explaining socialism to the thread-starter.
Socialists believe that capitalism is not very different from slavery. Instead of being bought and sold, you have...
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Plenty.
The Fourth World War is about the...Plenty.
The Fourth World War is about the anti-globalisation movements around the world.
DAM-age, a short film by Arundhati Roy, about dams displacing millinos of indians.
"Zapatista" is about...
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North York here.North York here.
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Hi there. I've been a longtime reader of Noam...Hi there. I've been a longtime reader of Noam Chomsky and others. Recently I've been doing reading about Trotskyism and have been getting more interested.
The points that got me thinking were:
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Some of the comments here make me laugh. Stop...Some of the comments here make me laugh. Stop saying Dawkins is bourgeois, pro-capitalist, whatever. It's fine. Not everyone is a communist. People DO do things outside of class struggle. Did you...
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Stealing:
When, if ever, is it justified? If...Stealing:
When, if ever, is it justified? If you're poor or starving? Or any time? Or never?
From whom - a small business owner, a giant corporation, a corporation that mistreats its workers more...
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Because that is what the word means. Try the...Because that is what the word means. Try the Google experiment, above.
It isn't revised. I was just explaining that nature and physics don't "think" anything because they aren't conscious...
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Yes, we predict things on the basis of theories...Yes, we predict things on the basis of theories we have about nature. Nature does not need to be intelligent to determine anything. "Determined", in english, does not imply that someone or something...
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I don't think you're correct, but I can't really...I don't think you're correct, but I can't really refute you at this time except to say that your argument reminds me of a religious argument saying that if God doesn't exist, or there is no...
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First things first: "Normal things behave...First things first: "Normal things behave deterministically". Do you agree or not? The words "deterministic" or "determined" do not mean that someone set it up that way on purpose. You might say...
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I'll try.
First, let's isolate what we mean by...I'll try.
First, let's isolate what we mean by "decision". A decision is a course of action in the universe, "selected" by some kind of life, from two or more (supposedly) possible ones. But...
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I agree with this MrDoom. I don't claim that...I agree with this MrDoom. I don't claim that nature "decides" anything at all. It just happens. I mean, I don't claim that the laws of physics are consciously conspiring against me. I think the idea...
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The common view is that whatever happened at the...The common view is that whatever happened at the "beginning", if that term can even be used accurately, has determined all future action. We don't quite know what that is yet. I hesitate to say it...
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I already searched "determinism" using the forum...I already searched "determinism" using the forum search function and found nothing relevant - should have searched more, I suppose. Those threads seem to be a bit old, so I suppose there's no harm in...
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Hello. Neat forum.
I am a determinist. I...Hello. Neat forum.
I am a determinist. I believe that everything, including every human action, is predetermined (resulting from a preceeding chain of cause and effect) and that there is no...