It is a good thing that you don't ever get worked up about anything irrelevant then. I hope we all can aspire to be like you.
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Danielle: Indeed, I guess you are 100% correct in that. Because even though the great majority of people have access to alternative news sites, many have access to alternative TV news channels like Free Speech TV, Link TV, The Russia Today News, and alternative news websites like http://www.commondreams.org http://www.counterpunch.org http://www.marxist.com etc. the power of the mainstream TV news channels and mainstream newspapers is just too powerful in the USA and the economic resources of the traditional political parties (The Democratic Party and The Republican Party) is just too powerful, so that's why those 2 corporate traditional parties are able to win the hearts and souls of the great majority of US voters who are very ideologically weak, and who are very anti-politics (because most americans have been educated to stay away from politics), and because of that most US citizens have a false consciousness like you said.
But don't worry, there will be an invisible sun that will give us hope when all hope is gone, and when the US economy will get a lot worse around the year 2016, most americans will probably shift toward the left ideologically and it will pretty easy for a marxist party to rise to the US government in 2020. And we will all walk in a field of gold like this song by Sting says:
"Dad, how many pounds of potatoes does an american have to eat before he dies." -Matt Dillon, in a movie
It is a good thing that you don't ever get worked up about anything irrelevant then. I hope we all can aspire to be like you.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. ~ Karl Marx
formerly Triceramarx
Hey, Strix, I know that you don't care what nobody dun does say but does that mean that you wouldn't care what a nazi says on television? I mean, it is the bourgeois news so you probably won't bother watching it but I'm also thinking that you wouldn't let it bother you either. How about someone laughing about the zimmerman trial on the news?
formerly Triceramarx
This video should go viral, this guy makes capitalism look downright terrible. We should make an ad and run it over and over again, just a clip of him saying "I support capitalism" with that same statistic thrown in there. It's just such bad PR for capitalism.
We claim to live and die equal, the way we were born: we want this real equality or death; that’s what we need.
And we’ll have this real equality, at whatever price. Unhappy will be those who stand between it and us! Unhappy will be those who resist a wish so firmly expressed.
The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.
I can't really feel outraged. This is pretty in line with the way rich assholes generally think.
Why? My blood boils more when they do that. He's fighting in his class interests, and so are we. I don't expect him to feel guilty, nor do I really want him to. I do expect him to suffer when he's ripped limb from limb when shit gets real.
This is fantastic news isn't it? It has clearly inspired 3.5 billion people to climb to the top and they will, nothing like backgrounds, unemployment or anything like that will stand in their way...
I don't think many of the 3.5 billion lowest want to be the 1% (0.0000....%) , they want a roof over their head, food, drink & Family/Friends. They just want to live a good life and not look back and seeing from their castle the friends they knew growing up living and striving in poverty.
Sickening, I can't wait for the last capitalist to give us the rope.
If you want a revolution in order to lynch the likes of Kevin O'Leary, you're an idiot and a liability to the socialist movement.
Of course, we should have them over for a nice cup of tea and a good old chit chat instead.
Your pacifism not only betrays the working class, it exposes your dogmatic adherence to bourgeois morality. If you care more about the fate of this dick than those who have suffered from his actions then you should really reconsider your politics mate!
It was done in 1793-4 and it was a disaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
I am well aware of the Reign of Terror and I fail to see how it was a disaster in any way given that the French Revolution was successful in overthrowing the old feudal order and ushering in a new society and a new mode of production under the rule of the bourgeoisie. This is not just my opinion either as it was also the opinion of Karl Marx himself.
In your own opinion, what was disastrous about it?
i suspect the point being made was the utter pointlessness of railing on against one particularly odious plutocrat and going on about giving him the haircut of his life given that it's not him (or his peers) we're specifically trying to take down - it's the system they've profited by.
Is it just me, or does anyone else around here get a strong impression that the ruling classes have been increasingly "dropping their masks"?
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I'm actually starting to get that feeling as well. I don't know if its because they somehow perceive that they're losing their grip on power (even though they're now probably more powerful than ever), or if the last big economic clusterfuck has turned much of the world against them...but the bourgeoisie seem to publicly becoming more and more unhinged.
"I've never read Marx's Capital, but I've got the marks of capital all over my body." -Big Bill Haywood
"...Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor."- Thomas Jefferson
-=UTOPIA IS THE MORAL RIGHT OF HUMANITY=-
They have indeed and that's not a bad thing in my opinion as they merely expose themselves for what they truly are. If they want to shot themselves in the foot and expose all their shallow propaganda for what it really is, I'm not going to stop them.
That's what gets me, though. Surely they're not stupid enough not to realise that if their rhetoric becomes increasingly blunt like in the OP, then more and more people are going to be looking at their increasingly shitty situations and thinking "hang on..."?
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker - Mikhail Bakunin
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains - Karl Marx
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value - R. Buckminster Fuller
The important thing is not to be human but to be humane - Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
Check out my speculative fiction project: NOVA MUNDI
then again, if you thought your wealth made you untouchable...
I don't think that they think they're losing their grip on power; I actually think they're becoming overconfident and thus more likely to say what they really feel. I think that increasing socioeconomic polarisation is also playing a role.
The Human Progress Group
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker - Mikhail Bakunin
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains - Karl Marx
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value - R. Buckminster Fuller
The important thing is not to be human but to be humane - Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
Check out my speculative fiction project: NOVA MUNDI
Is it really in his interests, actually? I think it could be argued that extreme wealth disparity doesn't bode well for the stability of social systems. "The palace is not safe if the cottage is not happy" (Benjamin Disraeli) and all that. That doesn't necessarily mean that things getting really bad inevitably leads to serious threats to the wealthy's power, but if I were super-rich I think it'd probably be in my own self-interest to put a happy face on this social system
"Win, lose or draw...long as you squabble and you get down, that's gangsta."
What's the video called, the link ain't working for me.
