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by deciplex 3y ago
Yes, it's true - they're still very mad that their Nazi collaborators who helped murder tens of thousands of Jews during the war had to face actual justice instead of getting paperclipped off to the West.
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by deciplex 3y ago
I'm not sure the average Russian would agree that the precipitous drop in life expectancy in the 90s, the rampant child prostitution, etc., along with what our idea of "democracy" for them turned out to be - you want to talk
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by deciplex 3y ago
Well, Marxism-Leninism did more good for the Soviet Republics in its first 40 years there (beating back an imperialist invasion, rapidly developing industry, beating the Nazis, putting the first man in space, raising the standard of living
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by deciplex 3y ago
What aristocracy? And over half the Chinese economy is state-run.
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by deciplex 3y ago
Bold to claim that anything that happened in Russia in the 90s could be called a "success." If that's what was in store for China then good on the CPC and President Xi for averting it. The "integration" of Russia in
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by deciplex 3y ago
I'm begging economists to stop assuming that the lessons of their profession apply to every aspect of human behavior.
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by deciplex 3y ago
My view is biased toward to the US because that's where I live, yes, but also I think as the epicenter of global capitalism it sets the pace for the other, lesser, capitalisms around the world. You're right that, by the numbers, t
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by deciplex 3y ago
> Profit is not just "extra money for owners", its also the part that provides income security in tough times, that buys new machines, that covers over the slow seasons, that secures cheaper supply lines and a million other thi
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by deciplex 3y ago
> eventually devolving into an authoritarian dystopia Plenty of capitalisms do, have done, and are currently doing, exactly this. I should know: I live in one.
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by deciplex 3y ago
Sure, but the definition of "transactional" must be expanded to such a degree for the statement "human relationships are transactional" to be true, that the word ceases to have any real linguistic function. You might as
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by deciplex 3y ago
More or less, but the solution to the tragedy of the commons is quite simple: collective action which ensures that the burden of providing for the desired resource / behavior / service, is apportioned fairly. Then, in exchange for
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by deciplex 3y ago
> My guess is that many people don't consciously acknowledge relationships are transactional. If two people do not treat their relationship as transactional, then it is not transactional. I don't know how to make this any simpl
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by deciplex 3y ago
What if the thing in question is something that a majority of humans would agree is worth doing, but there is no way to extract profit? Which is to say, that the loop of capital goods -> apply labor -> extract value from labor -> a
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by deciplex 3y ago
Basically the logical conclusion of neoliberal thought: nothing is worth doing unless profitable, anything not profitable is by definition not worth doing, pretty much replacing what earlier iterations of human civilization called "god
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by deciplex 3y ago
> Surely, clean water—something we all need—should be an apolitical bipartisan issue, right? ...right? Unless there's a way to get very rich from doing it, it won't get done in the contemporary US.
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by deciplex 3y ago
Indeed. Perhaps the profit motive has run its course as the primary driver of all economic activity.
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by deciplex 3y ago
capitalists never let a good crisis go to waste
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by deciplex 3y ago
> At least the whole population will be seeing the benefit, not just the corrupt few. Indeed. Had this happened in a country more vulnerable to regime change their government may have been couped already.
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by deciplex 3y ago
anything that elon musk says is true by coincidence only
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by deciplex 3y ago
wow an explicitly marxist-leninist instance supports an explicitly marxist-leninist state? who would have thought
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by deciplex 3y ago
I think you should read up on what Dengism actually is. You seem ignorant of it and the theory and intentions behind it. I'm surprised it worked, in the sense that they were able to harness market economics and capital accumulation wit
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by deciplex 3y ago
Are tankies Marxist? I would assert that they'd have to be - and Marxists aren't making the case for their ideas out of some sense of moral superiority. The good ones aren't anyway. China (and other communist states) aren&#x2
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by deciplex 3y ago
I'm a "tankie" and my MO is to point out the millions lifted out of poverty in communist China and the fact that the Chinese are apparently a lot happier with their government than Americans are with theirs. China is the work
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by deciplex 3y ago
They came right out and told you: nobody cared if nine out of ten investments were a total loss, provided the one had enough juice to make up for it. And, "juice" is an extremely vague term here: it could mean profitability, but g
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by deciplex 3y ago
Continual growth has been there for decades, what's new is a focus on this thing called "profits." Until recently the incentive structure has favored growth almost to the exclusion of anything else, at least until you got ver
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by deciplex 3y ago
He gave you a recent event and you conceded the point then suggested he use something else. And, DMCA is bad law but many companies make it worse in their overzealousness to "comply" with it.
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by deciplex 3y ago
to be even more pedantic, hawking radiation isn't exactly created by gravity
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by deciplex 4y ago
what do you mean "alleged wealthy upbringing" is this point contested somehow?
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by deciplex 7y ago
The capitalist project has failed, and our Constitution - poorly written even for the time - is wholly unequipped to deal with the crisis, nor the emergence of highly ideological political parties.
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by deciplex 8y ago
> The only other option seems to be that the final state is still a superposition and we have to reach for something like the multiverse interpretation to reconcile the fact that we indeed observe a definite final state. What's wron

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