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From cracked.com: "5 Things you only know if you grew up in a communist regime"
From cracked.com:
5 Things You Only Know If You Grew Up In A Communist Regime.
This person lived in one of the worst 'communist' regimes of the era, Romania under asshole/crazy bastard Nicolae Ceausescu. Take from that what you will. But she does have some interesting things to say about it.
You'll also notice from the comments that the confusion over the definition of socialism and communism is rather wide spread. We've got a lot of work to do, comrades.
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"We have seen: a social revolution possesses a total point of view because – even if it is confined to only one factory district – it represents a protest by man against a dehumanized life" - Marx
"But to push ahead to the victory of socialism we need a strong, activist, educated proletariat, and masses whose power lies in intellectual culture as well as numbers." - Luxemburg
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Meh, the intelligence of the commenters is a step up from what I'm used to (the YouTube comments section... *shudder*)
"We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass." Karl Marx
There's a difference between not being paid and being paid below the value you create. But yeah, this practice still exists in Uzbekistan.
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Jesus Cracked is the worst written tripe ever, even when I agree with them.
This article is boring pro-liberal 'communism is bad m'kay' bullshit. Everybody knows Romania sucked, Ceausescu was hated by mainstream communists even in his own day. But Romania has been shit for centuries. Before the revolution and now post-Ceausescu.
Lol'd at the (apparently real) picture of Communist Romanian Santa:
"to become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly"
I usually like cracked for casual fun facts. Sometimes their history is okay at best, maybe two good articles, but I'd say they're liberals. They are annoying in their taunting of us 'radicals' and see us as nothing but delusional hipster cos-players who fantasize over 'murderers' like Ernesto Guevara. This is kind of hypocritical given their love of the strongman Teddy Roosevelt.
Regardless of that, I liked the article. It's a shame these lying dictatorships only helped to strengthen U.S. propaganda, and scare their populations away from socialism. Not all, but the one's that live here in the U.S.
"Maybe some day... I'll find a way... without you.."
or if you're unfortunate enough to exist in the infamously illiberal totalitarian state of the United Kingdom and get put on "workfare"
True, we have that here as well (and incidentally soon there'll be some modest cooperation between our local Amsterdam-based committee and Boycott workfare) but one still receives their welfare or benefits, these kids in Uzbekistan or formerly in Romania received absolutely nothing.
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Cracked is a good site but you have to take the "serious" articles with a grain of salt. History articles are hit and miss. Generally, the farther back the time period they're discussing the better. Stay away from the "philosophical" stuff by David Wong and Gladstone. And don't even get me started on their psychology articles. EP at it's worst.
The comments section is filled with degenerates, like most sites, but cracked commenters seem to be a cut above the rest. They're at least better than YouTube or Yahoo!.
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I like David wongs novels very much, dont know wheter i ever read any articles by him though.
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Here at least We shall be free
I once saw a Titoist on Cracked once, true story; he was slamming Stalin as an evil satantic dictator while praising Tito as a Nationalist hero. The oddities you find on such websites. It was amusing in any case. But yeah, Cracked is eye-rolling liberal nonsense.
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I'm the opposite, I haven't read any of his books. I've had John dies at the end in my Netflix queue for months.
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What's "EP" , and why is it fallacious?
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Evolutionary psychology. I saw an article by an "evolutionary psychologist" that was talking about Charlie Sheen cheating on his wife (this is before Adonis DNA, mind you) and going on about how "he can't help it, it's in his genes!" It's pretty much all in that vein. Uses psychological language to justify reactionary social phenomena. Pseudoscience at its finest.
I am personally a pretty big fan of most Cracked articles, but yeah, this one is lacking.
"to become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly"
Evolutionary psychology. It's fallacious because it fails to take environmental factors into account when determining the causes of human behavior. It's lazy pseudoscience, often used by unscrupulous people to justify their vile worldviews.
Don't take this to mean that I think evolution has absolutely no effect on human psychology whatsoever. It's just that the term "evolutionary psychology" has certain, well deserved, negative connotations.
It's unsurprising that Cracked would uphold EP. It offers easy answers that are doubtlessly more appealing to their audience.
EDIT: I just realized that I didn't really explain what EP actually is.
Basically they think that all, or almost all, human behavior is caused by the unconscious desire to survive and pass on your genes. So using the prior example, Charlie Sheen, being a man, would want to impregnate as many women as possible, increasing the chance that at least one of those children will survive to adulthood to carry on his genetic legacy.
EP can also produce some pretty bizarre ideas. For example, the belief that a person will always choose to save their sibling over their cousin if both were hanging from a cliff, since your siblings genetic makeup is closer to your own and thus you would have more incentive to help them survive and reproduce.
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I got so upset with all the lies the commentors were saying about communism and socialism I had to leave.
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I just read the article. One of the sources was a website called "communistcrimes.org" FFS. I thought cracked was better than this.
That happens so often to me I don't even feel like refuting. Should I? Sometimes I agree with what they say about the dictators and all, but "kick communism in the ass"? They don't understand that communism, and similar ideas, are movements/uprisings for the emancipation of the oppressed! Such bigotry and ignorance, it's unbelievable.
"Maybe some day... I'll find a way... without you.."
The movie is really good, the books are even better though, long time since I laughed that loud while I read a book.
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
