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by etplayer 9y ago
The authors I cited, except Marx, primarily work outside such economics, and the parts of Marx that I cited don't deal with this particular issue, which I personally regard as separate from the psychological and social aspects of capit
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by etplayer 9y ago
I have no idea. However I will say that neoliberalism or even social democracy is very different from the views espoused by Communists pre and post Marx; as Marx said, the theory of Communism can be condensed to one statement: the abolition
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by etplayer 9y ago
If you're looking for a deeper analysis than this article offers, I have some recommendations for the interested reader in considering our modern way of life within capitalism and its relation to our wellbeing and our concepts of &#x27
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by etplayer 9y ago
You are right in saying that Marxism is anti-economic, but you are wrong in saying that it is bad because of this. Marxism is a critique of political economy which postured that capitalism is the highest form of development, or the most d
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by etplayer 9y ago
You can't really blame the man or his ideology, though. He didn't specify many of the things which were decided by those governments, and those governments to my knowledge all followed Marxism-Leninism anyway, which has a differen
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by etplayer 9y ago
>responsible for much of the unnecessary suffering of the 20th and 21st (modern Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela) Neither Cuba, North Korea nor Venezuela have adopted anarchist theory or praxis. At best, they have claimed to adopt regiona
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by etplayer 9y ago
But Syria wouldn't be somewhere you want to live regardless of what organisation the anarchists st up there. That's because of the climate and the war in the region, both of which are out of the control of Rojava. It just doesn&#x
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by etplayer 9y ago
That's not an argument against anarchism. I also wouldn't want to live in many other places, nor would I want to live there. The point is that it is a place Syrians want to live, as in, it is significantly better than theocratic
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by etplayer 9y ago
Both, I would argue. The application of their ideas in Catalonia was respected by Orwell when he stayed there (he even wrote a book about it, Homage to Catalonia). The current situation in Syria has spawned a man inspired by Bookchin's
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by etplayer 9y ago
When freedom is defined as freedom within the capitalist mode of production for bourgeois interests to collude, I suppose you're right. He also said that the state, as it is instituted for the protection of property, is instituted as a
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by etplayer 9y ago
It's important to note though that he wasn't only talking about TV and mass media, as people frequently attempted to interpret hials book.
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by etplayer 9y ago
It's a shame it's Carl Benjamin instead of Walter Benjamin[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin
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by etplayer 9y ago
As someone who would definitely be grouped into the 'alt-left', I don't let it get to me. It's just a word used to describe my views, which is attempted to be used as a prejorative. We should judge people by the views th
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by etplayer 9y ago
Although I would prefer to be very strongly critical of the corporate model of the distributed operating system, (and particularly I'd like to relate it to Marx's concept of alienation, commodity fetishism and the tighter control
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by etplayer 9y ago
Why the two downvotes without explanation? It hardly seems in the spirit of discourse to say "You're wrong but I can't argue my point." Especially as my post is on topic and enlightening to those who have similar misconc
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by etplayer 9y ago
From the video description, I read the following; I do not wish to dismiss the video (which I'm watching at the moment), though I would like to pick up on a point that is rather irksome to me as a Marxist: >I was invited to speak at
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by etplayer 9y ago
I agree in part. Meditating (using vipassana) has helped me examine assumptions I made about my life, what it is, and what value it has, and the impermanence of our posessions and indeed our own bodies. I'd recommend it, even to the sk
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by etplayer 9y ago
I think it's rather funny that the economic theory of marginalism has even managed to invade our thought processes to make such calculations "usual". I wonder if anyone still thinks in terms of labour hours and use value vers
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by etplayer 9y ago
Bookchin has spoken about this, but I can't find the lecture at the moment. When I use "libertarian" to describe myself, it's in the Socialist/anarchist sense, rather than what I view as antithetical to libertarian
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by etplayer 9y ago
Although it's clearly hate, it is regarded as justified for reasons which some people agree with; a good read on this, from which I got the idea about the "subversive element" of society is Marcuse's essay Repressive To
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by etplayer 9y ago
> What makes you so sure about that? What if the context is "I hate scientists...they keep proving me wrong". Is that a show of hatred or a tongue-in-cheek show of respect? You are correct, I didn't consider this, so there
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by etplayer 9y ago
Does one not think that there could have been a better way to encourage people to lose weight than to laugh at them, ridicule them and, to be honest, hate them? I'm not so sure if I consider your analysis to be a valid representation o
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by etplayer 9y ago
I don't think the particular issue is with deciding what hate is. Your example said that the AI would understand all of those as hate, and I think it would be correct. The issue is that humans have this idea that there are justified
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by etplayer 9y ago
> Living in harmony with Nature-- on a scientific basis --is pretty much the most crucial challenge facing our (global) civilization right now. Social anarchist and proponent of ecological anarchism Murray Bookchin has written about the
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by etplayer 9y ago
I wonder what the BSD of therapies is. Smaller but dedicated groups, less rough around the edges but still managing to do less than Linux therapy.
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by etplayer 9y ago
>Besides, there is no pure socialist or capitalist society on earth. Yes there is. All nations on earth adhere to the capitalist mode of production , entailing the following: primacy of wage labour, capital accumulation by the owners of
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by etplayer 9y ago
>At what level of government control over the economy do you draw the line between socialism and capitalism? No level, where do you get this idea that Socialism and capitalism exist on a scale between government control over the economy
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Why?
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No, just as art depicting rape, murder, gang violence etc. does not mean that people eventually consider it acceptable to perform those acts on others.
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by etplayer 9y ago
>Except, those things are purposely portrayed as bad. Many lolicon manga do the same. Why is whether or not it is portrayed as bad the problem? Many are actually made interesting by portraying the siuation as morally ambiguous , such as

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