gangcil_yc

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   by gangcil_yc 10y ago

   "...capitalism and having things like free healthcare and education are hardly mutually exclusive..." -- good point. It's also important to note that the semantics on capitalism is almost always misleading in discussions: ht
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   by gangcil_yc 11y ago

   This should be a required reading on this: The Soviet Union Versus Socialism ( https://chomsky.info/1986____/ )
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   by gangcil_yc 11y ago

   Pretty interesting book with obscure yet consequential assessment and history on a controversial topic today: Religious Extremism in the Lives of Contemporary Muslims https://ia902506.us.archive.org/17/items/Religi
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   by gangcil_yc 11y ago

   If we accept all that people claim to be true, Kissinger, Bush and Blair et. al. cannot be any exception. Then what suggestions one gets from the correlation between "upholding democracy and human rights" and the butchery in brut
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   by gangcil_yc 11y ago

   There are apparently some driving elements behind that: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/26/cage-campaigner... At the larger scale, religious justifications are no more relevant than socialism&#
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   by gangcil_yc 11y ago

   Here are some perspectives: https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/reflections-on-the-recent-pari...