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by imbokodo 8y ago
There is a class if people who do not work, whose parents did not work, who themselves have parents who do not work. The type seen in the documentary "Born Rich". They get into the best universities as legacies. You never hear t
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> communism as the best system Marx said capitalism due to its nature would lead to a cycle of wealth inequality, overproduction, debt bubbles and financial crises, and that these would get worse over time. Capitalism would collapse due
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> Hasn’t Marxism had its chance? Marx said "I will not write recipes for the kitchen of the future". As Marx refused to create a "Marxism" for someone to implement, how can Marxism have been tried? It's a quest
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> This is a distillation of Roger Kimball’s (and many others’) accusations that Marx was an intellectual’s intellectual I don't even see why it matters. I myself am not an expert on gravitational waves. If Neil Degrasse Tyson or M
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> AT&T and Walmart all very centralized. It doesn't seem to hurt their performance. They don't compete on price - they define markets and platforms, and dictate terms. They're able to change rapidly compared to monopol
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by imbokodo 8y ago
Brazil was under a military dictatorship until 1985 where those wanting democracy were imprisoned, tortured and killed. Over the past four years we have seen what started as a minor investigation into corruption turn into a judicial coup,
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by imbokodo 8y ago
And the ratio of workers to worker productivity increases every year, so it all balances out. In the US I pay inordinate taxes and do not get the health, education etc. that I would in Europe. Instead I am paying for hundreds of US militar
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> societal abundance These might be times of abundance, but not societal abundance. Trump did not win speaking about there being societal abundance. It does not exist in the US, and certainly not in the third world. Just walk down to
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> Or capital's other options for returns (real estate, emerging markets, etc) will look bad-ish for the next 10 years and continue to prop up the stock market because its the only good outlet for extra cash for a decade or three. An
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by imbokodo 8y ago
Actually the last time the French government was toppled was in 1958. The communists had become the largest party, and French officers, unhappy with decolonization, especially in Algeria, seized Corsica and planned to invade Metropolitan F
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by imbokodo 8y ago
A good book on prison lessons is Soledad Brother by George Jackson, a black man who was imprisoned in Soledad Prison, California, USA. He was killed by a guard at San Quentin in 1971.
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by imbokodo 8y ago
Lenin wrote about the inevitability of monopoly in 1916. He would not have been surprised that the 1911 break up of Standard Oil would be undone in 1999 with the ExxonMobil, nor the slow reconsolidation of the Baby Bells, nor the other mon
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by imbokodo 8y ago
This was basically the same argument the Zentrumspartei made for voting for the Enabling Act in 1933.
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by imbokodo 8y ago
Congress repealed the creation of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, that would cut the cost of Medicare without cutting service much. Thus Medicare costs are higher, thus spending exceeds income. Reinstate this board, as well as som
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> forced You are working at a place where you are as forced to take orders from bosses employed by the Newhouse heirs. People work all day to get their wages and refurbish ongoing capital expenses, then at night they work for free to ki
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by imbokodo 8y ago
That link reminds me of when Bush said "This crusade - this war on terrorism - is going to take a while". If Bush described the war on terror as a crusade, I don't see how out there Hersh is when he says some officers see th
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by imbokodo 8y ago
You and tptacek are putting words like "cabal" in his mouth. The mainstream press beyond Hersh has reported on Christian fundamentalism at leadership levels at the USAFA during Bush's presidency. Also former undersecretary o
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> an elaborate ruse News started to leak out that bin Laden had been killed in Abbotabad not long after it happened. As no one disputes, one of the helicopters crashed. The disputed premise is either the Pakistani high command ok'd
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> He was pummeled for publishing, in the LRB, an all-but-refuted story claiming that the entire story about the assassination of Osama Bin Laden was a lie (he relied on the secondhand story of a retired, anonymous defense department empl
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by imbokodo 8y ago
The Marxist/Maoist idea of the Chinese would be that the government is just part of the superstructure on top of the base. The base being the current state of the forces of production in their continual self-evolution and reinvention,
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by imbokodo 8y ago
You're correct that a corporation's biggest enemies are the workers who do all the work and create all the wealth of that corporation. You're also correct that this is a victory for those workers and a defeat for the corporat
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> Not only that, but the US government is neither as aggressive nor as forward-looking about such partnerships, preferring to let market forces have their way I have not seen this in practice. Wall Street had Glass-Steagall repealed in
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by imbokodo 8y ago
The top is predicated on the existence of the bottom. I watched some of the royal wedding the other day, that family has not worked in living memory, or perhaps even historical memory. Heirs live in luxury without need of work because what
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by imbokodo 8y ago
As all wealth that can be created comes from work, and as the heirs who mostly make up the 0.1% do not work, it follows that the wealth comes from those below. Actually the article has a fairly conservative vantage. As the pie is not what
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by imbokodo 8y ago
The US Treasury department says trading in Petro cryptocoins would violate US sanctions against Venezuela. So Bitfinex will not trade in it. Coinmarketcap.com lists over 1500 cryptocoins, but not the Petro. This sort of things shows up th
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by imbokodo 8y ago
Texas's governor, Greg Abbott sued the federal government to stop climate change regulations. Then when Hurricane Harvey hit, he said the federal government needed to give him over $100 billion for the cleanup.
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> They do marry other Jews Other Jews can marry in, but even this is limited. The majority of self-identifying Jews in the US would not have the qualifications to marry in. Any how, they are an insular community.
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by imbokodo 8y ago
The Syrian Jews in Brooklyn, New York are near-impossible to convert into. I don't see it as inconceivable some other sect banned it altogether.
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by imbokodo 8y ago
And here we see it...the British intern people like Michael Farrell without a trial, and he is said to be a "captured IRA member" and so forth. He's still alive actually, acting as a lawyer for refugees. You people still ha
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by imbokodo 8y ago
In 1971, England began interning thousands of Irish who opposed the English army in the six counties of north Ireland. The New York Times wrote editorials calling the interned without trial "diehards" and "uncompromising big

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