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by peisistratos 8y ago
> pre-war German and Japanese In the November 1932 elections in Germany, the socialist and communists got 221 Reichstag seats to the Nazis 196. 10 of the KPD's seats gained since the July 1932 election were from the socialists - th
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> a command and control society If peacetime USA 2018 is not an industrialized command and control society, I don't know what is. The difference is all is geared towards the heirs who expropriate surplus labor time, instead of thos
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> destroying some of our former industries such as Steel and Automotive - see what's left of former very wealthy Detroit And what destroyed the textile mills of North and South Carolina, which were barely organized at all? They wer
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Stephen Jay Gould wrote a book about it called "The Mismeasure of Man". You can go to C-SPAN.org and see his 1994 speech on it. The Brahmin say they are the chosen people, the Jews say they are the chosen people, Presbyterians sa
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The problem is that Al Queda and Osama bin Laden are the fruits of American military funding as well. The "chickens coming home to roost" as Obama's former pastor put it. The US desired to overthrow Afghanistan's secula
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There is a Woody Guthrie song about that town during a strike - "1913 Massacre".
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The English speaking West's relationship to China can be seen in a few things in past years. One is the UK leaving Hong Kong in 1997. The British Empire, on which the sun never set and the blood never dried, and which is causing pote
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> US military spending...provides funding for basic research Someone has to really have drank the kool-aid to even comprehend that statement, never mind believe it. What does military spending have to do with basic research? If what you
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Here is an article that points to a lot of US government data, and then gives their economic/political interpretation of the data - https://monthlyreview.org/2008/12/01/financial-implosion-and... You can
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The New York Times headline could be changed to "William Blunt, U.S. Policy Critic Cited by bin Laden (U.S. erstwhile ally, armed by the CIA to overthrow Afghanistan's secular government), Dies at 85". Blum covered a lot of t
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If one thinks the important thing is a dominant position in the relations of production, the effect would be reversed - the tendency to monopoly means more power for the monopoly, means it getting government help. Whether or not there is a
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> negative-decadent" youths that also goes into to who behaves the least "appropriate for society", political ideas and suspect affiliations. From the (Western) guide: Skinheads: Enjoy fighting Rude Boys: Are enthusiastic
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I think there is a correlation, but it could run the other way - the means of production coming more and more into the hands of monopolies might have the result of the government growing as well.
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Sounds like the same kind of guides that were being printed in the West https://twitter.com/TurnerMarko/status/1066830331288973314
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Communism does not have the pretensions to divinity and supernatural aspects that we see manifested during elections in the USA. It has a recognition that the forces of production change. That relations of production change, and this base
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In the three decades Stalin was general secretary, the Soviet Union had enormous economic growth. Russia went from being a backward peasant country ruled by a czar, to being the first country to send a satellite to space. Its success and
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If you look at that first report of increased family income, also in the referenced Pew report it says 59% of sons make as much or more then their fathers, which means 41% are doing worse. So 4 of every 10 sons does worse than his father i
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> possible overstatement of inflation This has been the drum beat for well over two decades. Conservatives revised CPI and CPI markers to their liking in the mid 1990s with the Boskin commission. Yet if you look at inflation over the