02-27-2021, 07:50 AM
The very same Communists who hate private businesses then turn around and scream that the Soviet Union failed because the USSR had government capitalism.
WTF?
WTF?
(02-27-2021, 01:00 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: [ -> ]At this point the fascistic Right might be more dangerous than "Islamofascists".
(02-27-2021, 06:42 AM)Captain Genet Wrote: [ -> ](02-27-2021, 06:12 AM)Einzige Wrote: [ -> ](02-27-2021, 05:53 AM)treehugger Wrote: [ -> ]Didn't the Soviet Union fail?
The Soviets were (State) capitalist.
That's pretty big news to people who actually lived there.
Quote: While the revolution in Germany is still slow in “coming forth”, our task is to study the state capitalism of the Germans, to spare no effort in copying it and not shrink from adopting dictatorial methods to hasten the copying of Western culture by barbarian Russia, without hesitating to use barbarous methods in fighting barbarism. If there are anarchists and Left Soeialist-Revolutionaries (I recall offhand the speeches of Karelin and Ghe at the meeting of the Central Executive Committee) who indulge in Karelin-like reflections and say that it is unbecoming for us revolutionaries to “take lessons” from German imperialism, there is only one thing we can say in reply: the revolution that took these people seriously would perish irrevocably (and deservedly).
At present petty-bourgeois capitalism prevails in Russia, and it is one and the same road that leads from it to both large-scale state capitalism and to socialism, through one and the same intermediary station called “national accounting and control of production and distribution”. Those who fail to understand this are committing an un pardonable mistake in economics. Either they do not know the facts of life, do not see what actually exists and are unable to look the truth in the face, or they confine themselves to abstractly comparing “socialism” with “capitalism” and fail to study the concrete forms and stages of the transition that is taking place in our country.
(02-27-2021, 05:42 AM)Einzige Wrote: [ -> ](02-27-2021, 04:38 AM)treehugger Wrote: [ -> ]If Nazis and Communists both support wars, debt, and tyranny, what's the difference?
I'm a Communist. I support international class war, the abolition of money (and debt with it) and the class dictatorship of the proletariat.
(02-27-2021, 10:26 AM)Einzige Wrote: [ -> ]What you want is a petit-bourgeois small proprietorship utopia. Your opinions are nothing more than the expression of your class interest. Also, Maslow's hierarchy is now widely regarded as pseudoscience.
(02-27-2021, 10:26 AM)Einzige Wrote: [ -> ]What you want is a petit-bourgeois small proprietorship utopia. Your opinions are nothing more than the expression of your class interest. Also, Maslow's hierarchy is now widely regarded as pseudoscience.
(02-27-2021, 12:56 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: [ -> ](02-27-2021, 10:26 AM)Einzige Wrote: [ -> ]What you want is a petit-bourgeois small proprietorship utopia. Your opinions are nothing more than the expression of your class interest. Also, Maslow's hierarchy is now widely regarded as pseudoscience.
I can think of far worse than a petit-bourgeois small proprietorship utopia, like a feudal reality in which every one is born into unshakable roles that any attempt to escape is treated as a crime. It is better that those who own the assets not wield the economic power as is true in the plutocracy in which we live.
(02-27-2021, 12:30 PM)David Horn Wrote: [ -> ]http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...7376900386(02-27-2021, 10:26 AM)Einzige Wrote: [ -> ]What you want is a petit-bourgeois small proprietorship utopia. Your opinions are nothing more than the expression of your class interest. Also, Maslow's hierarchy is now widely regarded as pseudoscience.
According to whom, exactly? Accusation by declarative sentence seems more the style of Fox News.
Quote: A large number of cross-sectional studies showed no clear evidence for Maslow's deprivation/domination proposition except with regard to self-actualization.
(02-27-2021, 01:08 PM)Einzige Wrote: [ -> ](02-27-2021, 12:30 PM)David Horn Wrote: [ -> ](02-27-2021, 10:26 AM)Einzige Wrote: [ -> ]What you want is a petit-bourgeois small proprietorship utopia. Your opinions are nothing more than the expression of your class interest. Also, Maslow's hierarchy is now widely regarded as pseudoscience.
According to whom, exactly? Accusation by declarative sentence seems more the style of Fox News.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...7376900386
Quote: A large number of cross-sectional studies showed no clear evidence for Maslow's deprivation/domination proposition except with regard to self-actualization.
It's human resources department capitalism-justifying bullshit.
(02-27-2021, 10:05 PM)pmc Wrote: [ -> ]WTF?
Defending freedom doesn't mean that you are a Commie.
The government is not your mommy.
The government is not your daddy.
Freedom is the absence of government.
Someone who smokes weed near you is not tyranny.
Tyranny is when the government says that you can't smoke pot.
When Libertarians say free speech is good, traitors who attack Libertarians are not defending freedom.
Those who scream Trump is a holy god for supporting wars, debt, and tyranny sound like hypocrites when they turn around and say Obama was evil for embracing wars, debt, and the police state.
If you think Trump should declare martial law and use the military to shoot protesters, what will you say when Biden uses the military to shoot protesters?
Can't you defend your own property?
Why not just end the tyranny that causes people to protest?
Do you think freedom doesn't benefit you?
Do you really think that you are exempt from the police state?
What country is this?
Why fight Nazis and Commies and then become Nazis and Commies?
(02-28-2021, 09:06 PM)newvoter Wrote: [ -> ]You know that you live in the Twilight Zone when the US is a bankrupt warmongering police state and Americans look you in the eye and say that the USA is a peaceful and free country with a balanced budget.
(03-01-2021, 02:57 AM)Einzige Wrote: [ -> ](02-28-2021, 09:06 PM)newvoter Wrote: [ -> ]You know that you live in the Twilight Zone when the US is a bankrupt warmongering police state and Americans look you in the eye and say that the USA is a peaceful and free country with a balanced budget.
Nobody says this, retard.
(02-27-2021, 01:05 PM)Einzige Wrote: [ -> ](02-27-2021, 12:56 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: [ -> ](02-27-2021, 10:26 AM)Einzige Wrote: [ -> ]What you want is a petit-bourgeois small proprietorship utopia. Your opinions are nothing more than the expression of your class interest. Also, Maslow's hierarchy is now widely regarded as pseudoscience.
I can think of far worse than a petit-bourgeois small proprietorship utopia, like a feudal reality in which every one is born into unshakable roles that any attempt to escape is treated as a crime. It is better that those who own the assets not wield the economic power as is true in the plutocracy in which we live.
That feudal reality is what the drive to attain the petit-bourgeois small proprietorship utopia actually achieves.
(03-01-2021, 05:22 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: [ -> ](03-01-2021, 02:57 AM)Einzige Wrote: [ -> ](02-28-2021, 09:06 PM)newvoter Wrote: [ -> ]You know that you live in the Twilight Zone when the US is a bankrupt warmongering police state and Americans look you in the eye and say that the USA is a peaceful and free country with a balanced budget.
Nobody says this, retard.
What? We agree on something? Is that allowed? Will the moderators have to take action?