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by ue_ 9y ago
Very nice, thanks.
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by ue_ 9y ago
I especially love the shots of seemingly boring city architecture like this: http://ffffound.com/image/913174394559f0f170e9af85417302ce83... I didn't know I want this site until now, I suppose this kind of stuff i
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by ue_ 9y ago
It's less about detachment than it is about non-attachment; it's the same for physical objects and even mental phenomena as it is for people - attachment to these things causes suffering in the same way, when the inevitable time c
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by ue_ 9y ago
>how attachment reduces stress Although I'm in the process of reading the article, the title was quite striking to me - the Buddha said almost exactly the opposite - that it is attachment which is the cause of stress, clinging to ch
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by ue_ 9y ago
Economy has always been political, since thr discipline was founded as political economy, the part which modern economists have excised from their expertise. Good books on political economy include those by Ricardo, Smith, the excellent cri
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by ue_ 9y ago
I really love Japan, but my visits in the past 3 years and having to enter a fingerprint and photo are rather offputting. I think it's a real shame.
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The police are agents of the state. I do not trust the state, so why should I trust their bullies?
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I don't think it's so weird, some other services have such stipulations. It's part of the idea of no-platforming, in which the provider of a service wants to minimise spreading of ideas (in this case far right ideas) by not a
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by ue_ 9y ago
In the case where the money goes to "the community", then sure, maybe. But are the people selling it doing it for the interests of the community? How is the money used to benefit the community? I am a Socialist myself, so perhaps
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by ue_ 9y ago
So long as it is not a threat to profits in the forseeable future, the bourgeoisie will not care much about climate change. They will and indeed must continue to advertise and increase consumption, many requiring growing rates of profit due
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by ue_ 9y ago
> nature's-way-is-stupid-here's-my-brilliant-social-engineering-idea-instead So then instead of trying to change the world for the better, we ought to just submit to a naturalistic fallacy and live our lives in ignorance of the
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by ue_ 9y ago
I am a Communist, and I will say that a slogan is neither something to build your country upon, nor something to criticise a country on. No country has thus far managed to progress past capitalism, certainly not the ones you litsted nor the
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by ue_ 10y ago
I don't think that most of Marx's analysis of capitalism falls flat in the face of modern developments; some of it of course do (such as his theorised 'Asiatic mode of production' which didn't exist) but for the mos
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by ue_ 10y ago
The kind of class Marx was referring to is that of economic class, that is, class created as a result of the relationship to the means of production. Marx's view was that throughout history, various groups of people have definitive rel
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by ue_ 10y ago
>Such as what? Workers already own property. Most people have a TV, a house (that they own fully after their mortgage matures), a car and so on. Should we steal all of that stuff too? Or just the lambourghinis and yachts of the wealthy?
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by ue_ 10y ago
Anarcho-Communism is not an oxymoron; Communism is by definition a stateless and indeed classless society, as described by Marx and Engels.
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>Socialism in all real world implementations has been in the form of an all-encompassing state. The idea that socialism can exist as a form of anarchy seems to be busted I think it could exist as a distributed network of communes, no par
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by ue_ 10y ago
This is partly why I am an anarcho-Communist, in favour of decentralised planning or to a lesser extent market Socialism. I'm not sure what to do about giving the vote to people; arguably democracy is very good, but I would rather have
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by ue_ 10y ago
Protesting only works to persuade those who have a conscience, it does little against a faceless government or the class of property owners. A look at how protesting has worked in the past decades, with a few notable exceptions, will show y
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by ue_ 10y ago
>but it's close enough that we can tweak the existing system through optimised taxes and regulations Optimised taxes and regulations do not stop exploitation[0]. >"oh shit our web app is running a bit slow, best throw it all
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by ue_ 10y ago
>it also almost always seems to be pushed by middle class people rather than the working class, who are generally somewhere between social democrat and nationalist. Why does that make it a bad idea? I'm of the belief that stigma sur
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by ue_ 10y ago
>government policy of using the police and security services to [...] protect company profits and the status quo If anyone needed more evidence that we are living in a bourgeois democracy rather than a people's democracy, look no fu
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by ue_ 10y ago
Like people were doing during the great depression? Or England before social democracy? Class is not about equality, it is about removing a power relationship. In the same way that the abolitionist movement removed the property relationship
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>Socialism is basically confirmed to be invalid now. I don't think that's true, I still think Socialism is a solution to the problems of society structured with class (capitalism, feudalism, slavery etc.)
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by ue_ 10y ago
I currently support Labour because Conservatives have a thing for capitalism, Lib Dems are pushing social democracy as a solution and centrists don't care about it :)
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Democracy is "tyranny of the majority" no matter which way you look at it (I'm still in favour of it though). And I think equality, fraternity, respect for minorities, socialised and universal healthcare, feminism and focus o
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by ue_ 10y ago
> If labour wants to become more competitive they should stop nominating far-left leaders. A party becomes more competitive by moving closer in policy to another party? I'm happy with a far-left leadership, and I'd take it any
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It's ridiculous that people need to be told apparently that 'he' is okay in a base64 string.
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>The rest of us are too busy defending their right to destroy our society and our values. Which values are those? Unfortunately, I would argue that England has never had values I'd agree with. What about values of privacy and civil
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I agreed with the Lib Dems on about two issues: privacy and censorship. For these, I disagree with the Labour line. However I am also against capitalist exploitation, and that makes a stronger case for me than the previous two issues. If th

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