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It sort of depends what we mean by liberal. Very few Socialists would be arguing to have the population woken up by the commissar in the morning to commence their 9 hour working day, in return receiving labour vouchers which guarantee a pos
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Proudhon and Kropotkin?
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>"liberal socialism" is quite convincing, even though the construct might at first seem like an oxymoron I don't understand why this is even considered an oxymoron, aside from the arguably distorted views people have about
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I don't know if it's just me, but I consider Capital more of an economic text than a philosophical one. That's Marx in political economist mode. And from what (albeit little) I've read of Nozick I much prefer Marx and co
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The part about lisp being primitive was rather silly. Many languages don't have anything close to what Lisp has in its macro system, not even other functional languages, even in those languages with temperating systems. Perhaps Perl 6
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If you admit that "eternal optimist, borrower spender American" is a stereotype, would you also concede that "realist Japanese" is a stereotype?
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>Also, the wastage of resources is almost laughable. I say this not to be condescending, but because if there is one entity on the planet that is inefficient, it's government. I'm not arguing for government, at least not necess
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I admit that self-interest is biological, I do not deny this; but I wish to posit that capitalistic self-interest is not biological, or at least, it is possible to overcome this. Capitalistic self-interest when applied to the capitalists th
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How is this any different to "trickle down" on a large scale? If you encourage capitalistic self-interest enough, it will create benefit? Why not just create the benefit directly instead of going the roundabout way of having peopl
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What is meant by the invisible hand, and what did Smith say about it? I see this a lot, but I'm not sure what it means when I see it. There are others with different views of capitalism, such as Marxian economists, Proudhon, neo-Ricard
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Can you go into more detail please? I am very much against authoritarianism and the state as a whole, though I am in favour of certain modes of social organisation some consider unorthodox. I think we should educate each generation on the i
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I don't know of any 'solution' to this (if one agrees it is something to be solved), though to deal with your inner voice, it's best to listen to it, and I think that meditation can be a good way to do that. Sometimes I&
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I always wanted to make my own processor out of ICs however I was informed this would be extremely slow in the end, so I never started making it. But it seemed fun at the time to make a 16-bit computer up from logic gates.
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Well, I didn't figure it out as much as Marx, Engels, Kropotkin and Proudhon did.
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Very true, that's the thought I had when I saw this. Cross-culture dialogue and understanding is very important, and it would be nice to see more and more, especially when it may be threatened by growing nationalism in various countrie
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The Buddhist Pali canon is filled with remarks of non-violence and non-killing by the Buddha at every turn. One cannot claim that Buddhism is a violent religion based on this. Monks in the Theravada tradition are disallowed from eating meat
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>No thanks, too many cooks in the kitchen. We're a democratic republic specifically to avoid that. To avoid what?
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>Go ahead and abolish all your own property, you're free to do so. I do not own any private property. >Or was it more about you wanting to be entitled to product of your fellow man's labor? No; in fact, the exact opposite. I
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>(with the exception of trespassing on private property, of course). This ought to be removed too, along with the whole concept of property.
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What about those deaths caused today from planned society mismanagement? The poor and other workers who die from a mode of production which every government upholds religiously - capitalism. If you will make the argument that Stalin is resp
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Sex is to male and female as gender is to masculine and feminine.
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That's an interesting figure, where's that from? Not necessarily doubting you, but it's a huge number. It's not the first time I've seen this figure being posted. I don't consider it an argument against Commu
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Adam Smith thought that the free market was termed as such because it is free from the control of its participants. The 'free' market isn't very free for those certain labourers, especially in those developing countries. It i
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> We needed some privatization to foster competition and raise quality. Or alternatively, public (and by public I don't necessarily mean state) owned infrastructure, in which the public can vote directly for what they wish to be imp
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This is a very tired meme. If anyone doesn't understand it, perhaps one can understand its usage by context, usually accompanied by ideas such as "gender isn't real, to prove it, I identity as a helicopter" (ironically&#
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To my knowledge, gender is thought of as a complex of at least two aspects: those differences between what is thought of as masculine and feminine, and the roles assigned to genders. In these cases, gender pertains to the ideas of gender id
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>Capitalism is a great tool for progress, but it should not, and is not, the answer to everything. Nor should it be considered the final or best possible form of human organisation, I should add. Marx's comcept of alienation is quit
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Mastodon really is good, it's fun to use and the fact that you can connect with people on other instances is great.
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You're quite leading onto an important point with this - businesses require wage labour, capitalism does on a large scale - in order to make sure that there is a large number of people who are able to buy products. Periods of increasin
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> Watch every decision the current administration makes. Just the current administration, or democracies around the world? It's a fact that capital rules economy and by extension our lives. Why do you think it would be any different

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