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> since we had our election 2 months ago it would seem that 52% of NZers have chosen to temper the neoliberal flights of fancy. And? 56% of Venezuelans voted f
by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> since we had our election 2 months ago it would seem that 52% of NZers have chosen to temper the neoliberal flights of fancy.
And? 56% of Venezuelans voted for Hugo Chavez.
The only "flight of fancy" here is that Marxism can somehow ever be made to work. One would think that a hundred million dead bodies piled up over the last century would be enough to constitute persuasive evidence, but True Believers gonna believe, I guess.
- EdwardDiego 9y agoWho's going Marxist? New Zealand is recovering from neoliberalism, and Ardern is signalling a shift back towards our social democracy that has existed since the 1930s. Settle down with the extremes.
- Turing_Machine 9y ago"Neoliberal" is a meaningless term of abuse. In practice, it just means "not a communist".
- c0nducktr 9y agoRegarding the "hundred million" thing... http://www.spectrezine.org/global/chomsky.htm http://www.spectrezine.org/global/chomsky.htm
- Turing_Machine 9y agoI'm old enough to remember when Chomsky was still defending Pol Pot and Robert Mugabe, so no. Try this instead. http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/ http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/
- PostOnce 9y agoHow about all the bodies that piled up in defense of capital and capitalism? It seems worthwhile to tell both sides of the story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian_Oil_Company#Nationalisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian_Oil_Company#Nati... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company#Banana_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company#Banana_ma... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War There's a lot more where that came from.
- Turing_Machine 9y ago> How about all the bodies that piled up in defense of capital and capitalism? That's not a hundred million. Not by orders of magnitude. There is no "other side of the story" here.