turkishrevenge

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by turkishrevenge 17y ago
> "But the ideals of capitalism are supposed to work in the worker's favor" The ideals of capitalism favor the bosses. Such a statment is very telling. You've obviously never read any literature on the subject, nor much about history of
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by turkishrevenge 17y ago
Whether you agree or not, everything seen so far has been an iteration of Stalinism, without question. Additionally, in either a degenerate socialist state or a capitalist society like the U.S., productive means are most certainly not under
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by turkishrevenge 17y ago
The word "public" is used here to mean the State, as in, the current capitalist state, not a worker's state controlled and administered by councils as in socialism. If it were public, as in non-private property, it would be administered by
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by turkishrevenge 17y ago
"My problem is - or, rather, one of my many problems (because I surely have more than one problem) - is that my hobby, my passion is programming." I know its been said over and over again, but I think the advice still holds: join an open so
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by turkishrevenge 17y ago
Unfortunately Ceauşescu's reign of terror resulted in a lot of horrible policies under the banner of "socialism" Just look at the ban he placed on abortion and the curtailing of womens rights, which is probably the most reactionary thing a
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by turkishrevenge 17y ago
I wouldn't rule anything out in the DPRK. As an example, here's Juche, the official state ideology, summed up in an exchange: Peasant: "I am hungry. I need bread". Soldier (part of the supposed "revolutionary" class): points gun at peasant
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by turkishrevenge 17y ago
The article proves my point. What if anything are you trying to get at? Apparently, you've never heard of the Pure Food and Drug Act either, or why it was created, given the presence of adulterants common in goods at the time. People like y
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by turkishrevenge 17y ago
"monopolies only happen because of government enforcement." Yes, except when the government breaks 'em up. Trust-busting, anyone? See Standard Oil, or for that matter, the Sherman Antitrust Act. I'm really sick of this hearing this. It's li
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by turkishrevenge 17y ago
"all the moral righteousness is pretty funny/sad at the same time. they're charging for access to their call center basically. I don't really see anything wrong with that." Really? Despite the fact that what the site in question is doing is
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by turkishrevenge 17y ago
For the majority of humanity's history, man lived by producing roughly enough subsistence to survive day to day. With the advent of agriculture and domestication of wild beasts, etc, man, for the first time ever, had the capability to produ
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by turkishrevenge 17y ago
Remember, the ideas of any age are that of its ruling class. To say that the goal of capital accumulation is the "natural" state of humanity, is to ignore each set of social relations imposed on the populace by the ruling class of each soci
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by turkishrevenge 17y ago
"Oh, and I would rather stab myself with a fork than play punk." good for you, but music should be emotive and a 20-minute Neil Pert drum solo is hardly emotive. If you equate technical mastery of an (needlessly expensive) instrument as the
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by turkishrevenge 17y ago
Theses are all great ideas, but they depend first on having the ability to pay rent, buy/obtain food and secure other basic requirements for life. That's hard to you when you don't have an income.
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by turkishrevenge 17y ago
Back then, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say.
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by turkishrevenge 17y ago
I would have to go with businessmen first. The advent of the interchangeable part directly contributed to the development of the assembly line, and with it, the emergence of the unskilled or semi-skilled worker, the very antithesis of craft
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by turkishrevenge 17y ago
"but if they saw someone in need they wouldn't help them" -- this applies to Christians and non-Christians alike. Similarly, a Christian or non-Christian could easily help such a person as well. Given the overall message of Christianity (re
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by turkishrevenge 17y ago
Wouldn't that kind of situation foster hyperspecialization? Real, true insight is the result of a degree of expertise plus a smattering of general knowledge. Not that public schools necessary provide that kind of education. Nor do so-called
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by turkishrevenge 17y ago
"It's unclear why survivors would take such writings seriously. After all, they were a product of a society that failed massively." Take a look at http://downlode.org/Etext/WIPP/ . It contains proposals for a universal way of saying "Dange
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by turkishrevenge 18y ago
I'm curious; by the logic given in the article, a woman who was inseminated by way of a glass tube has the possibility of legitimate legal recourse for defective semen, whereas if it were provided via a meat tube, it would be seen as a crue
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by turkishrevenge 18y ago
No problem. I could see the confusion that could arise if you were unfamiliar with the term. Yes, by Islamic standards, Dubai and the UAE in general are more "tolerant", depending on how you define tolerance. I suspect--and especially after
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by turkishrevenge 18y ago
No, "neo-liberal" has a very specific meaning and is used almost exclusively when speaking of markets. Just by reading the article, you can see that there is nothing socially liberal about Dubai--I mean, come on, you can inherit debt. That
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by turkishrevenge 18y ago
1) A school should train for outsourcing? I don't understand why you would need to go to school for that. 2) You can't engage a student whose sole objective in life is the pursuit of money. Many, many students see universities as a path to
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by turkishrevenge 18y ago
You neglect option C: A charity and/or social program that provides a safe, albeit spartan environment in which the person can live for a temporary period, while receiving instruction on life skills, resume preparation, interview conduct, a
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by turkishrevenge 18y ago
Look, I'm pointing out what has historically existed. Competition was around at that time as well, and these things still happened. You're the one putting forth this idea and I am criticizing it. If you cannot defend it, then it probably ne
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by turkishrevenge 18y ago
Voluntary? In an absolutist sense, yes. In practice, no. In theory all work in voluntary, assuming you can leave job and still afford to pay for basic amenities like food, housing, transportation, and still provide for your family, etc unti
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by turkishrevenge 18y ago
I would like to see how she would explain commodity valorization. If she does not subscribe to the Labor Theory of Value, how is that extra value imparted, if not from the labor (variable) acting on constant capital? It's a mistake to attri
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by turkishrevenge 18y ago
You're still missing the point tome is trying to make. Unless there is an innate need for a particular thing, often on the basis of utility as it relates to survival or reproduction, a person cannot want what he is ignorant of. Only through
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by turkishrevenge 18y ago
The BBC documentary "The Century of the Self" really delves into the role that Bernays played in changing the notion of selling on the basis of utility to one of selling on the basis of emotion, e.g. from "Buy this car because it offers sup
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by turkishrevenge 18y ago
Ah, the "human nature" argument. Is there anything more insidious? This idea, like all others before it, is one of those that rule. "Greed is good" is the creed of our epoch. Before, in feudal society, it was "We rule because we have divine
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by turkishrevenge 18y ago
It's kind of a gray area. If we received negative reactions, we'd stop, but so far the responses have been overwhelmingly positive.

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