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The keyword is global. For example, China is reducing extreme poverty (again the keyword is extreme).
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What is better than having health is a wealth that is ownership of capital. Capital exchange goes through the conversion of money into commodity into money of altered value. This can help provide the means of attaining great health. Another
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Each generation has less share of the overall wealth than the previous generation. When does the hopeful idealism convert into positive material change?
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There are those who advocate for revolutionary violence, and there are those who advocate for reformist change.
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That begs the question of what is basic human nature. We lived through much more tyrannical systems that were assumed to be as God intended. This was what led to violence of democrats and republicans against monarchs. There is a kernel of t
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The difference is that Marx was racist in addressing the racism of his time, but he proposed that communism would be the solution. This solution is different from the Final Solution in that communism would remove the elements he was racist
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State capitalism is when the state owns the means of production. The state does not own Tesla, but it will be economic protectionist for privately owned businesses under it.
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Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production in the hands of capitalists. State subsidies do not change the ownership.
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I don't get your hyperbolic angle that pushing back against Elon Musk is society destroying. I agree that Twitter was bloated with benefits, but this was the industry's rewarding of their labor aristocrats. It's unfair agains
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The wrench in being against ML was that it was responsible for the tremendous growth of the USSR and China. Every third world country would love to replicate this. At best, ML would make a country self sufficient enough to withstand geopoli
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The concrete and aluminum does not seem like "no expenses will be spared" to me. It looks like sculpted artistic streaks to elevate the otherwise shabbiness to a sci-fi futurism. Whether the peasants would be oppressed is another
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I meant the pro-Russian faction, which you are correct in that they don't support Putin and are for Ukrainian sovereignty. They did form a major opposition to the current political power and so they are being suppressed accordingly alo
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I do think the war could have been avoided too. The last decade has been the pro-Western faction taking the ball and running with it while the pro-Russian faction has been marginalized and sideswept. Ukraine after the USSR has always been i
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Perhaps Mao appealed too heavily to the sentiment of farmers upset with their seeds being eaten, not realizing that killing the sparrows would have had adverse ecological effects.
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There was the context for collectivization as rapidly industrializing agriculture, which did lay the foundation for the rapid urban growth afterwards and the prevention of further famines which were regular occurrences up to that point thro
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I think that's more rather the difference in economies with kingdoms traditionally extracting taxes from their fiefdoms and Venice being able to broadly trade. The difference in economy led to the difference in governance.
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I think there is still tribalism within a homogenous society with respect to its place with other societies in the world. Within multicultural societies, there's the risk of systemizing economic hierarchies and niches between identitie
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The issue is whether the democratic process in place is enough to dislodge the incompetence/corruption (or whether the process can be uncaptured by powerful interests if it is). Without an alternative, support will be granted to illibe
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It's more rather that the USSR and China copied Western tech to catch up because of how backwards their development used to be. They started from feudal conditions and had to catch up to capitalism and promise to surpass it into the Ma
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If China was an example, then their Deng years were ones of liberalization that led to tremendous economic growth. However, they were ended by the rise of the Xi years of a strong leader promising to reign in the corruption of the Deng year
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On the other side of gridlock, democratic centralism as associated with Leninism, is meant to break factional gridlocks and unite the entire one rule party behind a democratic decision to emphasize swiftness. If Arabs were starving, I think
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I think that democracy as a governance model is also meant as a liberal economic model with free market ideals. Even the authoritarian Chinese have elements of a democratic governance model with voting, however the one party rule maintains
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I don't find it surprising that Iraq is the most skeptical given the kind of democracy that was forced upon them and how the resulting struggle for the dispossessed former ruling minority led to the rise of ISIS.
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The Arabs in the article might ask it is the safest for who? If they don't have food (with 1/3 of people running out of money to buy food), then as the article says, the future may be uncertain and they might change to the Chinese
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Sure, but the other systems can also be considered religions with their own atrocities. With the way things are going, I would think it to be prudent to analyze why things happen and what was the good and what was the bad.
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Bitcoin removes some intermediaries and opens up the opportunity for other intermediaries. I think you might as well wish for the end of capitalism and get rid of capitalists as parasitic intermediaries, but that's just me.
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The irony is that I can argue that this overview is too simplistic and reductive and even too opinionated. I don't think I got a good impression of what a minarchist or an anarcho-syndicalist is from this either. Then it's like wh
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In my experience, "democratic socialists" aren't as upfront about being sexually abusive as techno-anarchists. They're more about roping people into sex to be a part of the scene because that's SO totally revolution
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Personally, I think a more Marxist approach is correct in realizing that people follow their economic class.
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Agreed. Socialism is defined better as workers owning the means of production. In "socialism for the rich", it is still the rich owning the means of production, aka capitalism.

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