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Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "The Real Karl Marx Was A Cartoon Villain" video.

Who told you this? 😂😂😂
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Goethe said it, in Faust.
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@Individual_Lives_Matter A life of leisure? He did nothing but work.
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@duaneslack8516 Not to mention explaining how the free market devolves into monopoly capital due to forces that are nearly insurmountable. I say give me Adam Smith any day, if you can. We'd have no worries about wholesome, fresh food that's inexpensive, for one thing. Too bad that's over. 😢
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@martindenham2207 Capitalism is dominated by envy, resentment and fear -- and grave mistrust of the motives of others. If you want to see real hostility erupt, try telling a boss you have enough money. I've actually done this in interviews when I was sure I didn't want the job. You would not believe the instant anger. Once, freelancing, a boss owed me money. I knew I'd take no further jobs from him, so I said, "It's not about the money," the implication being a principle was at stake. Wow, did HE get mad!! This happened in the US, but coincidentally on Bastille Day! 😂😂😂
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 @C_R_O_M________ He died relatively young, even by the standards of his time.
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@MykeLewisMusic He's not my hero. You remind me of how Piers Morgan embarrassed himself in front of Ash Sarkar. 😂
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@LibertarianGalt Speaking of sex scandals, Ayn Rand . . . 😂😂😂😂 Your post just happens to use the same tactics as those denouncing Thomas Jefferson (he owned slaves, had children with a slave who were not recognized, put together his own Deist Bible by literally cutting up the Bible and pasting it into a commonplace book, and so forth), as if that undermines the Bill of Rights, one of mankind's greatest achievements in government and politics. But do go on . . . It's still amusing.
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Yeah, bourgeois decadence has no limits.
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@DadSavesAmerica "The labor theory of value is false." Only if you believe value and market price are identical. If they were, then of course that would be true. But we know they are not: both in theory (see, for example, the recent work of Yanis Varoufakis), and from experience (e.g., the way the price of certain mortgage-backed securities collapsed in 2009; the way no organic farmer and no rancher can make what McDonald's makes; the way videos like this one will make much more money than the math videos from Kenya; the way an inferior immunization product just made record profits for investors, and so forth). Note that I've just given examples from housing, food, education, and health care. That was an accident. It's not like you have to plan that. The examples are everywhere, staring us in the face. Not a pretty picture.
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Karl Marx had a doctorate in ancient Greek philosophy, with a thesis on the pre-Socratics. He, like Nietzsche and Freud, read Greek and Latin fluently. You're trying to import modern, American ideas about child-rearing into 19th century Germany? That's how you interpret letters from his father? I thought you wanted to send your child to university in Italy. What do you think he would study there? Not this nonsense. But he didn't learn his Italian (and Latin), did he? 😂
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"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Hey, pretty good writing.
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@carguy1979 When did you speak with her?
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@danielmacmaster5822 Ayn Rand? Who do you think her followers were? Read up on the 2008 implosion of global finance, from which we never recovered. See who its architects followed, and in some cases actually knew when they were young. (BTW, during the pandemic, we lowered the fractional reserve requirement to zero percent. Where is it now?)
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@LibertarianGalt I wish you had written that more clearly. I'm getting an impression that it was good. No, I mean it. I wasn't making an argument. I was making an observation about tactics that are roundly condemned on this channel by Dad.
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@danielmacmaster5822 So in other words, frank criticism didn't cause a rupture. Quite different from what usually happens to, say, "whistleblowers," innit? (See, for example, Carl Elliott.)
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@danielmacmaster5822 Oh, following me around now, are you? So, it turns out you don't know history.
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😂😂😂😂😂
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Memento mori.
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@C_R_O_M________ Most of my posts are gone. Dad can't handle them? LOL
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@C_R_O_M________ Boom and bust is inherent in capitalism. No economist will say anything different. Adam Smith's free market would be heaven compared to what we have, but concentrations of capital that proceed to distort that free market are inevitable. That's what Marx demonstrated. He appreciated Smith and Ricardo. They were great economists compared with the lackeys to big business-big government you see today, or the dreamers who think we can return to Smith's time. But yeah, I have nothing against Smith. He would be a vast improvement. You'd have small grocers in every neighborhood selling the freshest, most wholesome food and no inflation, instead of having to hope self-interest keeps Jeff Bezos marginally ethical. Go for it, please.
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 @C_R_O_M________ Why did you think I was a guy?
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Anyone who can make money putting out stuff like this has got to love the system. Most people in the world work. It's starting to show, too.
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Or, you could close this app and read real books, in more languages than just English. Then you might know stuff
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@martindenham2207 That's true, but "the system" does breed them, doesn't it? I know that's vague. We don't know what aspects of the cultural context is doing this. All we know is that contemporary capitalism isn't curbing it, obviously -- though knowledge of Adam Smith and John Locke should, actually!
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@martindenham2207 Yes there is. There is a system of rewards and punishments that is in no way simply "natural" or "spontaneous."
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@albertchurchill4845 In fact, this guy and countless others on YouTube are profiting, too. It's a symbiotic relationship. If you look at videos from Africa or the BRICS, a lot of them are about stuff like piano or mathematics. Get a clue, will you?
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So, you've read them? Or you take Savior Dad's word? 😂
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@daveouterspace "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Hey, pretty good writing.
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@sdrc92126 In the meantime, we have debt and the threat of foreclosure and ruin. But someone will pocket that change.
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@sdrc92126 I'm not, personally. Most Americans are. The country as a whole is.
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@sdrc92126 I don't live an American lifestyle. I have a flip phone, no television, a 20-year-old Volvo S80 (my much loved Fjord . . . Ford had to sell it, now I don't want a new one 😢), mortgage paid in the last century, new roof and furnace/AC but all remodeling delayed (bad idea), eat out no more than a few times per year, because friends want to, cook from scratch (too bad inflation is ruining that plan). Who knows what's next, though?
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This is the same tactic used to discredit Thomas Jefferson. 😂😂😂
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@Individual_Lives_Matter Well, this truncated "biography" just happens to use the same tactics as those denouncing Thomas Jefferson (he owned slaves, had children with a slave who were not recognized, put together his own Deist Bible by literally cutting up the Bible and pasting it into a commonplace book, etc.). Does any of that have a direct bearing on his role in founding the United States or the Constitution? These are not easy questions, actually. In fact, Marx, like Jefferson, read Latin and Greek --- only Marx went further by completing a doctorate in ancient Greek philosophy, and a thesis on several presocratic philosophers. That wasn't included, was it? Raoul Peck did a nice film on it, if reading is not your thing.
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@C_R_O_M______ First, you've misstated the theory: the worker himself and society must value the task. Mere activity is not labor any more than passing gas is art. Second, is any audio or video of your debate available? Have you read Technofeudalism? Have you sat in on his classes? Third, I'm being scents oared too much, including from saying so. I wasn't planning to engage this much. I guess the much-vaunted market values scents or ship; if intermittent reinforcement schedules draw us in, cha-ching. Thus, a measure of s or s has greater value than free speech -- but only is money = value. It should be obvious that you can't refute anything I said with ad hominem against Varoufakis. You also conflated my theoretical point with my examples. And I just gave you one more. Private entities that are allowed to assert ownership over what operates like a commons (like a modern-day public square) will make more money without free speech than with it, by operation of intermittent reinforcement, which creates much stronger habits. This leads to cents err sheep, astutely applied, having the greater value by far.
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@C_R_O_M______ Well, I'm glad you could see it. I can't anymore. I suppose that means others can't, either. My example of speech occasionally curtailed bringing in more money made PERFECT sense. (The euphemism is that intermittent reinforcement makes apps and platforms "sticky." See, if every post appeared, then the platform would have less "value" because people would not strive to use it quite as much. Similar to engineered scarcity.) I think you do know exactly what I mean. Based on everything else you've said, you certainly do. You can read and you can think. You just prefer to retreat from that for the moment, and you might even have good reasons of your own. I'm really done here now.
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@C_R_O_M______ In a global scheme in which countless governments were involved, bonuses of tens upon tens of millions were shoved into the pockets of investment bankers who were screaming, "NO, NO, we don't WANT bonuses," but those governments FORCED THEM to take the money. The bankers were so sad to be set up for life after a year or two of "work," and several generations after them in a few more years of running the scheme, I mean working so hard. I saw one crying. They got their wish in 2008-2009, when some of those bonuses were temporarily cut. Alas, that didn't last.
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@C_R_O_M________ The true risk profile of certain mortgaged-backed securities and the exotic derivatives based on them proved to be very, very bad, and paper that was deemed to be worth billions (perhaps trillions?) suddenly became worthless in the market (that is, literally no one would buy it). Think of it as very sophisticated, complex counterfeiting, and what happens when the veil is suddenly lifted from many eyes at once. Game over. In the meantime, vast fortunes were made, and kept. Principals and agents of corporations are not personally liable, and if they all did the same thing, they can cover for one another, find experts to testify on their behalf that these were business decisions, etc. No way to make them disgorge.
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 @C_R_O_M________ My careful answer to your question went the way of the smile on the Cheshire cat. Might still be there if you sort under the Newest tab. EDIT: it is.
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@Individual_Lives_Matter There is no free market. If you actually read Adam Smith, you'd know that. (Smith would be bliss compared to the rent extraction we live under, with an ever diminishing arena for actual freedom of choice.) In fact, Yanis Varoufakis just wrote about it in Technofeudalism. He explains the difference between profits and rents very well, and shows how rentiers are increasing in power and act as parasites on productive activity. They literally make vast fortunes while they sleep.
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@Individual_Lives_Matter First, I hope you can see my real answer. This is an aside: how come the videos from Africa or the BRICS are so often about mathematics or piano, and stuff like that, while "natural selection" operates to give us this? Yikes.
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@Individual_Lives_Matter I'll take Adam Smith over monopoly capital any day. The minute they have you believing free markets and monopoly capital are the same, know that you've been lied to. Adam Smith would mean fresh, wholesome, organic food from green grocers in every neighborhood and near-zero inflation, and a robust, sacrosanct commons (clean air, water, grazing land where possible). Please let's advance to Smith. I'll sign up right now.
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@C_R_O_M______ Irrelevant, how? It responds to the fake biography presented here -- which just happens to use the same tactics as those denouncing Thomas Jefferson (he owned slaves, had children with a slave who were not recognized, put together his own Deist Bible by literally cutting up the Bible and pasting it into a commonplace book, etc.)
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@C_R_O_M________ Irrelevant, how? It responds to the fake biography presented here -- which just happens to use the same tactics as those denouncing Thomas Jefferson (he owned sl*ves, had children with a sl*ve who were not recognized, put together his own Deist Bible by literally cutting up the Bible and pasting it into a commonplace book, etc.) None of that has any bearing on his role in founding the United States and the Constitution.
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@C_R_O_M________ It's so bad that my cogent reply is . . . A free country with choices and markets and everything, and yet . . . Endless scents err ship.
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@bevo65 Autocorrect thinks it knows better. Soon, AI will know better and none of us will having any idea how to tell the difference between reality and manipulation. If you thought the "mainstream" lying during the pandemic was bad . . . Brace yourself.
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@C_R_O_M________ "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Hey, pretty good writing.
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Yeah, nice work if you can get it.
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OH NO 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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@danielmacmaster5822 True, but consider what he said.
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You think this was sound? You can't be serious.
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Try reading real books. This bowing to nonsense is becoming serious. No one has any critical faculty.
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@C_R_O_M________ And lots of conservatives in America today started out as leftists. Jordan Peterson and Candace Owens come to mind immediately. This is because they tested the waters and figured out what sort of rap would bring them more money or power, and they like money and they like power. It's not that tough.
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@C_R_O_M________ Apart from the fact that a philosophy grounded on universals was suddenly deprived of any semblance of universality, in other words. But you just echoed my point: they saw the lay of the land and figured out how to gain power quickly under those conditions, which was their sole aim. They certainly did have to kill a lot of leftists to do it, who then ultimately defeated them. Red Army (75%+ of all casualties inflicted on the Wehrmacht, i.e., the actual Nazi fighting forces), the Resistance in France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, etc.
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@meganmcdaniel6568 My arguments are so poor that You Tube kindly prevents you from suffering the pain of seeing them.
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The fake biography of Marx just happens to use the same tactics as those denouncing Thomas Jefferson (he owned slaves, he had children with a slave who were not recognized, he put together his own Deist Bible by literally cutting up the Bible and pasting it into a commonplace book, etc.). So. What's the difference -- besides the fact that Jefferson became incredibly wealthy from slave labor and Marx always lived on the edge of poverty, just like the workers he aspired to lead?
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But he can make an easy buck. At this juncture, expect nothing better.
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This was nonsense.
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 @C_R_O_M________ No, because I read. It's a choice. You don't have to.
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@danielmacmaster5822 I read three languages fluently, and have read thousands upon thousands of pages of history in two of them. But tell yourself something different.
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 @albertchurchill4845 This arose HERE, and the further you move from NW Europe and the English-speaking West, the less of it you see. Also, note who is profitting.
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@albertchurchill4845 Of course. And I just bought a lotto ticket.
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@albertchurchill4845 More honest money than this. Zipless money, lol.
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