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by Atlas667 5y ago
When the internet has been so comercialized that in order to gain credible information you have to go to a place where you KINDA trust people dont have ulterior motives. Who would give a damn about socialist censorship when you have a bette
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It's liberalism that promotes this idea of individual merit. By liberalism i mean philosophical liberalism that most of the modern world has, be it in a conservative fashion, neo-liberal fashion or the modern sense of liberal and all t
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You're making a fetishizing an era of capitalism. There are chapters in Marx's Capital where he thoroughly studies early capitalism in England by official govt reports and it was absolutely horrible. The govt was forced to impleme
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Read the book, that's exactly what he's saying, and that way of thinking is a fundamental aspect of dialectical materialism. The semantic and conceptual differences come when these small changes accumulate and a new way of describ
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But capitalism only became capitalist imperialism at a definite and very high stage of its development, when certain of its fundamental characteristics began to change into their opposites, when the features of the epoch of transition from
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This is almost exclusively the fault of media trying to engage viewers through culture war. These people [one random, average person passionate about something they know little about] are saying these things[taken out of context by reporter
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This is kind of an old article, but I still have to say this: I can't get over how people on this website don't understand capitalism and its business practices. Is it that hard to grasp that an economic mode that is centered arou
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Apple could not make I Phones in the US. The cost of living is too high. Either you bring the cost of living down or you make technology incredibly more productive. Which in itself make the price of the product go down and generates less pr
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That's a really nice summary of imperialism in the capitalist era. It really shows the need business has in economically dominating other countries in search of profit through the low production costs in other countries. The cost of pr
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It's incredible how much people can talk about capitalism without mentioning it. It's all about the trends in capital, but never about the general mode of capital. Which i do get to some extent. It does make sense to talk about tr
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This is pretty cool, I've imagined similar concepts. Are you running it anywhere or do you know anyone who is running it?
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I like how a lot of the discussions on this site are about hating capitalist economic incentives in tech but almost no one acknowledges the underlying framework of capitalism and what is at its center: exploitation.
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In an economic system where generating capital did not lead production ads would not exist, but information would. Information on products. Not emotional manipulation for consumption, but technical knowledge of tools.
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Ah, yes, private media and factual information. Like water and oil. Also the left is socialism and communism, not liberalism. Get it right, else youre feeding the culture war the politicians want us to keep fighting.
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See lobotomies and brain damage. See eye and nerve damage. See people with syndromes or developmental disorders. The experiencer is the sum of your body's processes. It's what it feels like to be your body. To be connected to all
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Maybe media just needs to appear progressive and since everybody now realizes that Facebook is just a huge surveillance company they gotta jump on the bandwagon.
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Yes, objectively the managing of production for profit has benefited the world in some very real ways, but there are irremediable contradictions in this system that harm the world in other ways. Production should not be for profit anymore a
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This is a very romantic account of poverty. Poverty, in general, in the abstract form, is not due the lack of philosophical questions on purpose, meaning or goals, or even bad spending. Poverty in the here and now is a part of our social sy
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The problem is not ignorance of the constituents interests or their volition. The political system this claims to help was not created by and for the working class, it was thought out, designed and implemented by and for the bourgeoisie. It
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Nice initiative but I fear the principle of this design is flawed and will only prove once more that the working class as a whole has no real power. Technology can solve many of the problems of society but I don't think it will in this
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I believe people with psychedelic experiences can attest to the controlled hallucination theory of consciousness. But only those with a materialist world view while idealists may posit souls or alternate realities. Imagination is also a par
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Yeah, this is pure uninformed speculation, but what if they're the edge of cosmic ray propagation. Where they lose most of their energy between stars ans are still bound by gravity and just interact with other edges forming resonating
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The contradiction of the capitalist mode of production is not that it tries to cover its costs. That is necessary in any system of trade/production. The problem is using social services to generate capital. A public good for private in
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Alas! Your question reveals how capitalist production is both for the consumers but at the same time must contradict the interests of the consumers. I'm waiting for the day when we can solve these ills of private property with technolo
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This book is a great example of how wrong it is to think that the concept of the state is evil and oppressing. When in reality the state acts in favor of those in power, and i don't mean politicians or the president. It's the capi
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You seem to have a pretty idealist notion of societal development. Did you ever think that maybe your business did not inspire confidence? What you see in your country is true of any nation in distress and has nothing to do with the individ
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Is it perfectly reasonable to say that? If you have evidence I'd be more than willing to go through it. Most people do not control production and even the small amount who do control production make their decisions according to their m
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Anti capitalism and pro "socialism" aren't actually hard indicators of marxism, believe it or not. There has been so much political distortion that circles who use those terms are, more often than not, filled with liberals ra
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The only reason mainstream media is talking about this is because the anti work "movement" is not radical and does not threaten capitalism in any way. Instead of a discussion on the nature of capitalism and how worker exploitation
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This article was a vague gesture towards a projected future. A numbers magic trick. Capitalism leads to unequal development at all scales. Be it between nations or inside their borders. That can be justified with vague meritocracy or hard r

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