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@FifthConcerto The Chineses had campaign against sparrows to increase the grain harvest where the peasants killed them by chasing them into the air the result was a terrible famine caused by locust swarms that normally would have normally been eaten by sparrows.
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For about 6 cents you can go to a Cuban Baseball game. The stadiums are also full. From $50 to over $1,000 for a MLB game. No luxury air conditioned boxes in Cuban games though.
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@shuheihisagi7851 Some one who needs to shout and kick like a little baby says nothing worth listening to.
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She has already rejected first the corrupt Chinese Communist (Revisionist) Party and now the US Republican Party and two party system itself by declaring herself to be a candidate of a third party.
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This is the way a capitalist government works they only care about INDUSTRIAL and COMMERCIAL property. Farmers, workers and even middle class homeowners come last. Its all about the money for them and their corrupt two party politicians. When they talk private property they mean THEIR PROPERTY not your personal property, your home or farmland. They will promise a job today and fire a whole factories workers tomorrow. Their promises aren't worth the paper they print them on.
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@AldrichCarrasco The US Army has been engaged in gun control for years now. They get real practice when they go to war in foreign countries like Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Foxconn is known for treating their workers such that some actually committed suicide by jumping off buildings. They have had successful strikes by Chinese workers outside of the official Communist Party unions which have won better conditions and pay. Many are young workers who come from the countryside and live in dormitories.
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@livefree316 How about one person dying of dehydration in the Milwaukee Jail or the Chicago torture cops of John Burge's midnight crew. Even Che Guevara did not get one of your "Bourgeois Justice" trials. Instead the execution order was to shoot from the neck down to make it look like Che died in battle.
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They were "deterred" by the US Coast Guard. What you mean to say is blockaded. These are libertarians who don't know how to feed themselves and can't get anyone to do anything without payment. This is why the need to use paid smugglers. Now if you think like the typical libertarian would you the smuggler sell the product once inside Cuba or would you just give it away? You do remember Pharma bro. If protest are evidence of Dictatorship then certainly the US is a dictatorship. US officials have arrested hundreds for a failed insurrection on January 6th.
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Harry Moobs Why do we need over 800 foreign military bases? Why do we need to build 22 billion dollars worth of nuclear powered submarines along with the nuclear tipped missiles to launch from them. Gov't shouldn't be about the war business but the peace business. We are entering a crisis that will NOT go away in a few weeks. Thousands are losing their jobs and thousands of small businesses are being ordered closed.
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@joebouret747 That's a really stupid remark since Havana probably looked like LA does today before the revolution in 1959. Kennedy, a Democrat, was the one who ordered the invasion and bombing of Cuba so why should we like the "lesser evil"? When both parties are evil? Even Kim Jong Un understands that Trump like Obama is the representative of the US ruling class. Somehow all these fools think voting DemoPublican is a solution. We say that the working people need to stand up to the bosses attacks on our wages and living standards. To rebuild the unions as a fight force on the job and a new labor party built out of the coming union battles with the capitalists.
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@dancing4bears When I grew up you knew enough not to eat lead but we used it without giving it a thought not just in gasoline but fishing sinkers, paint, electronics solder, car batteries and pipe solder. Older homes and cities still have lead pipes and copper pipes soldered with 50/50 leal/tin. The whole water scandal in Flint, MI involved water not properly treated flowing in lead pipes. After all you burned gasoline you didn't eat it like cheerios. When it was initial put in gasoline it was as compound of lead and like I said people were initially lied to about its safety by the oil bosses. It wasn't a "consumer choice." It was quite believable as a lie because after all sodium and chlorine are in table salt which actually a necessary for life yet both atomic chlorine and sodium are highly corrosive and dangerous to both the skin and lung tissue.
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@Porelcaminitoyotellevare Like J F Kennedy who got and accepted a pulitzer prize for a book he never wrote. The only talents real capitalist have is the ability to hire lawyers and give orders.
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Unions are the working people's organizations. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was founded in the Carpenters Union hall. We aren't the bosses slaves without rights to act and bargain collectively. Money doesn't make you the King.
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Build protests outside of the county buildings.
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@alexstewart8097 Lets stop using communist as swear word in the liberal conservatives category of political oppositions. Who is this guy Brennan anyhow? If the guys a communist how come I've never heard of the guy? CIA is a US capitalist police, dirty tricks, assassination and coup planning team. It severs the US Empire.
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@alexstewart8097 The Cuban people are not afraid to resist which is why the Imperialist are afraid of them. The'd have Yankee boots in Havana by now if they though that Fidel or Raul was like Hussein in Iraq. Yet even in Iraq they are facing a people insistent upon their departure. More protests against the current Iraqi government and the US occupation. One way or another Uncle Sam has had to wave goodbye to places he thought were his after WW2. China was the biggest loss handed to Congress with each party blaming the other for the loss. Who lost China they would cry. Then Korea here the Imperialist suggested that they and Stalin temporality evacuate Japanese Troops.
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@Reality Lives Onward Always Cuban communism is saving lives that would otherwise be taken by capitalist negelet. Ten Thousand foreign students are training to be Doctors in Havana all at no direct cost to the students. The Russian Bolsheviks signed the first peace treaty to end WW1. A war fought to redivide the world between the two different blocks of Imperialists nations. No one in Cuba was shot for being rich. Those who were shot were either engaging in terrorism or engaged in recognized war crimes. They all received trials open to the foreign media which is more than the captured Che Guevara got from the US CIA and the Military dictatorship in Bolivia. I suppose you want to live next to eye gougers and people who hung bodies from lamp posts and left them in the streets. Does the US government hand out death sentences for terrorist like Tim McVeigh and the Boston Bomber or not? Why were Cuban CIA terrorists like Orlando Boshe and Luis Posada go untried for the bombing of a civilian aircraft Cubana 455. You've got your Cuban political prisoners like "Scarface" and you put them in the Atlanta penitentiary were they rioted to protest your dungeon like conditions. Your recent Cuban "dissident" artist El Sexto is awaiting trial without bail in Miami for Stocking and Death Threats.
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@arkadycaca Other reasons for having a permanent organization is to more quickly organize a response along with getting contracts that can be made and enforced company and industry wide. Your shop steward is always the first line of defense.
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@RebelofIreland This is a result in the general decline of the middle class layers. As the capitalist slash jobs in social service replacing them with fewer paper pushers. I wouldn't be surprised if Strossels childern don't join in.
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Capitalism and Cronyism a marriage and match made in heaven.
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Cuban Americans were going to bring supplies in their own boats but were deterred by the US Coast Guard. The correct term would be blockaded.
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@FREEMAYKELOSORBO I've done voluntary labor if that's what you mean. I suppose you only do something because some one pays you too? Don't you want to cry about how the billionaire could take a big loss of millions? You do realize that US paper money in dollars is created by the government printing office and electronic money is numbers in a computer overseen by the US Federal Reserve Bank?
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@joebouret747 Where's the pictures of the homeless living in tents and under tarps in Havana like in Los Angeles?
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@joebouret747 "...And, nobody has enough to do more than survive..." Hay that sounds like 30% of all American families.
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If they don't employee that number for some reason or another their lawyer`s will get them out of it. They'll claim adverse business conditions. They basically steam rolled this thing through. Trump Walker and Ryan will take credit. Afterall you don't think it's just a coincidence that it's going in Speaker Ryan's district. Who knows what kind of arm twisting and secret deals we'll never even hear about that went into this thing. Maybe Trump told Silicon Valley Foxconn and others you can't have all the electronics manufacturing in the far east (China, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia.) if they actually do build this plant it will be one of the largest if not the largest manufacturing facility in the US and the Western Hemisphere by number of workers
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It's hard to believe they'd build a single plant with that many workers just to make flat screens.
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The Russian revolution of October 1917 was the second workers revolution after the Paris commune. It came about in Russia after 3 years of world war. The Bolsheviks slogan was all power to the Soviets. In Russian Soviet means council. These councils were formed by Soldiers, Sailors, Workers, and Peasants. The Bolsheviks negotiated a separate peace with Germany without regards to previous Imperialist alliances. They weren't really sure they could hold out without help from a German revolution that never materialized. Trotsky as Ist Commissar of War with his armored train defeated white counterrevolutionaries and 14 invading armies.
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@dancing4bears First the producers of leaded gasoline lied about its safety. If it had NOT been rushed into the market than alternatives would have been used and while the automobile industry may not have developed as quickly we lived for 1,000's of years without automobiles. An estimated 100 million people died early deaths due to leaded gasoline. Just because someone can buy something or puts a label on it does mean it should be built, sold or used in the first place. Leaded gasoline was taken out of the marketplace because it was poisoning the air that all of life depends on.
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The idea is to put everything off by planning to do everything ten years latter.
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That's what Imperialism is. The movement of capital to foreign nations for greater profits where it can more easily defended by military force. USMC Major General Smedley Butler explained it in "War is a Racket" as did Lenin in "Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism."
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Raymond Babcock Right as if other capitalist politicians don't do that also. Most of them hire book "ghost" writers like J F Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. The actual writer Ted Sorensen is not mentioned as author. It's the only known case where the person who did write a book got a pulitzer prize for it.
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@samgamblewhite8600 Look I'm not signing on to some theory about how the bosses just want to treat us like individuals and pay us what we are worth. What the bosses want is a divided workforce bickering over stupid things. Their idea of individuality is to get you to cut corners unless you go to far, get caught, which is when you will get the blame.
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@samgamblewhite8600 Your already an individual just in case you haven't figured that out yet. Your also a social animal like the rest of us. Our species has to labor together to make a life for ourselves. Our ancestors used simple tools and fire. They were organized into small independent groups that new little about what the rest of us were doing. Today you live in a world where communications to the most obscure places is almost instantaneous. A world where people still living in the remote conditions of tribal societies are connected by world trade wearing T shirts with slogans on them.
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@samgamblewhite8600 Over all you only have to pay dues if you have a contract that has a dues checkoff clause. You have no other obligation to the union. Just cross picket lines at your own pearl. The dues checkoff was something added during WW2 to get union officials on board with the war effort and the unpopular FDR no strike during the Imperialist war. After the war the largest strike wave in history occurred. The bosses passed the Taft Hartley slave labor act in Congress. It among other things allowed states to forbid union dues check offs. Janus is part of the state apparatus for represion. AFSCME should have never taken his job category into the labor movement. He like the cops and other bosses should be excluded. The industrial unions of the CIO were built without dues check offs since the workers collected dues without boss approval.
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@samgamblewhite8600 On the one hand dues checkoff makes collecting dues easier. On the other hand it allows less democratic control by the members of the union. A union that consistently fights for its members will have no problem collecting dues. Freeloaders will be asked to pay or find work elsewhere. With a checkoff the boss will take out dues with or without your permission. Instead of it being called dues it is called an agency fee for those with religious objections and it can not be used to support candidates for elections.
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@samgamblewhite8600 The reason for collecting dues is it cost money to run an organization. If you need picket signs, a meeting hall, strike headquarters or a lawyer you have expenses that have to be paid even if you can run an organization on a shoestring. Teamsters usually get a monthly union button that shows they have paid their dues.
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@samgamblewhite8600 You only have to pay the dues or agency fees. If you don't want a union contract with dues check off all you have to do is hold a representation election and than all of you slackers can go and get paid what you are really worth or if you want to be an individual slacker you can always find a boss job or open a lemonade stand. That way you can claim to be true blue and a renaissance era thinker.
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@samgamblewhite8600 Right now the unions are at a low ebb so the bosses want to further weaken them by denying dues money where possible. Now if the are on the upswing then you'll be bitching about how the bosses aren't allowed to join or go to union meetings. .
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@samgamblewhite8600 You don't have to join just pay dues. You will be told when your hired if you will be required to pay union dues. If you don't think it's worth your money just move on and go look for another job. Seems simple to me. If they tell you to bring your own tools or buy them from the company can you just wine about that, have a temper tantrum and get away with telling the boss I don't want to buy the tools but you must give me the job even though I refuse to buy or provide the tools. Do you think you can have a union apprenticeship in the construction trades and say hey I want the apprenticeship but I don't want to pay union dues? You live in a society where everything is bought and sold so why the big deal about paying union dues?
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@bobjacobson858 The basic response to any emergency in the US is for the Chief of Police to appear on TV and annonce "YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN". They were no better prepared for the Corona virus then they were for hurricane Katrina. We are now basically "On Our Own" at this point.
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@invictusdude3881 It will slow automation because automation requires profits to invests. Automation raise capital value and reduces living labor time. However the profits come out of the surplus value we create less labor time ends up lowering the price. Now you have a lower rate of return on investment. No capitalist wants a lower rate of return on investment. He must automate or prices will fall to the cost of production leaving him without a profit. Also profits shift to the capitalist industries or firms that can take advantage of automation vs those which can't do much automating.
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If there's one thing these corrupt politicians of both parties fear it's working people coming together and protesting in front of government buildings. No Rambo or hollywood hero is coming to save these people from this obvious injustice.
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@Johnjackjack At business school they teach the prospective bosses that unions cost the bosses in overall profits,.That's why bosses oppose unions unless they are faced with no other choice. They agreed to accept unions because of strikes and protest demanding union representation.
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@Max Wylde Since only about 9% of workers belong to unions there is plenty of non union jobs for you. That gives you plenty of say to work elsewhere. In fact what's keeping you from opening up another Microsoft and being another Bill Gates?
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The whole community should have had the ability to decide for themselves first not being subjected to a we the state and federal government are going to do this regardless of what you want or say. They don't even need all the property for the factory. A lot of it will be used to build a company town to the liking of the Foxconn Bosses. Plus the giveaway of tax revenue to Foxconn. Down the road the same politicians will be talking about how the government is broke and can't keep schools open five days a week.
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@landonpowell6296 You're seeing how well for profit Insurance company healthcare works right now.
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@donlebo6824 This is the typical two party way of choosing a president. In Nixon vs JFK it was said afterwards that Nixon's 5 o'clock shadow lost to Kennedy's youthful appearance after the debate in which issues don't matter but make up for the camera does.
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gnbutler First if the company had their way you wouldn't get any hearing whatsoever. You be an "employee at will" on the outside looking in. That said arbitration always favors the bosses and the unions need to use union power to negotiate not arbitrate.
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@timpoolsbeanie2296 Libertarians start with assumptions like voluntary trade being free, private property being necessary due to limited resources and a state being only necessary to defend property rights. The when their assumptions which are at the core of modern capitalism don't produce a good outcome they blame it on state intervention. So in essence their reasoning is circular. The choose the axioms for their ideal system and when it doesn't produce a desired result blame the state but who is the state if not the executive committee of the property owners.
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@stephenparry6811 Cuba ended segregation in 1959 it took another 5 years to pass the US 1964 civil rights act. The US had no official diplomatic relations for over 50 years. Yet they had a US interests section where they decided to create a phoney dissident movement of independent librarians and media. These people were paid for doing this from the interests section along with being supplied books which were not on any censorship list to begin with. Other parties are not illegal but they don't use a party system in elections like in the US. In the US people are arrested and imprisoned for planning to bomb political activities even when the FBI plans them but the Cuban government should give people planning bombings a free pass? How many plans did the CIA hatch in its drive to assassinate Fidel Castro. Did the Cuban government repaint bombers with US markings to bomb Miami like Kennedy did with US Alabama National Guard bombers. For years the US denied this and the bodies of the dead airman were not returned until the US families demanded that Washington tell the truth which is when the bodies were returned.
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@stephenparry6811 In the US the FBI acts as a political police force which you call democracy. They set up former FBI head Muller to search for connections between the Trump campaign and Russia. The had nothing but hot air to begin with. Nevertheless Muller is able to arrest and prosecute based upon lying to the FBI men who already knew the answers to questions asked. They dredge up a witch hunt era law requiring agents of foreign powers to register with this the imprison a known Russian women for discussing politics with Washington big shots. The claim that Russia Today and Sputnik interfered in the US election as if it was a state secret that those are Russian Media outlets.
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@stephenparry6811 Go look up The Legless Veteran, Citizens to Investigate the FBI, the Cointel Program and Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General. At one time the FBI had one informer in every union local in the US. Not did they just spy on political opponents considered dangerous they engaged in disruption programs designed to create a paranoia of an FBI agent behind every mailbox. Efforts to Blackmail ML King into committing suicide. Getting different groups to fight with each other by writing poison pen letters. Providing the Chicago police with the layout of Fred Hampton apartment who they assassinated. Spying on any kind of new left group form antiwar, black rights, women's rights and earth day.
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Nospam Spamisham Your problem is western journalists have never been banned from Cuba and such a claim is completely baseless unless you buy into the standard conspiracy theories. Are you guys still trying to get Fluoride out of the drinking water or accusing Eisenhower of being a communist dupe?
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@makeromaniagreatagain9697 The average US trained Doctor has debt of $100,000. Doctors who graduate from Cuban medical schools have no debt. The difference is in Cuba they are building a society based in Human Solidarity. In the US the ruling class is building a society where Billionaires can be President.
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Her is a self confession from a capitalist economist that educated workers are not needed only those who can follow the orders of a corrupt and lazy runling class that believes it was born to rule.
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Cuban Archive run by a former Cuban American VP of Chase Manhattan Bank who got her "Human Rights" education in Chile as a University Student during the Pinochet years who has relatives that were US CIA trained US mercenaries at Giron (Bay of Pigs). Basically the Human Rights activities in Cuba are sponsored by the US Government along with a campaign of lies and propaganda from Radio and TV Marti broadcast and paid by the US Gov't. A fake twitter war was launched from the US on the internet along with wild claims by Marco Rubio that Cubans were being murdered by the Regime. The violations of Human Rights in Cuba take place at the US prison and Torture facility at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. What this should real be titled is "Once again the US Media and Gov't are lying through heir teeth about Cuba."
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I wonder if she would have felt the same way if she arrived after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 but before the 1964 civil rights act?
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@uzefulvideos3440 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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@geoh7777 It confession that capitalism has no need for anyone but people who follow orders of a corrupt ruling class that thinks it was born to rule.
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In 1944 Trachtenberg was a representative of Stalinism. Stalin and Roosevelt were buddy buddy at the time. The Stalinist CPUSA went so far as to declare the class struggle over and permanent victory of the Soviet Union at the end of WW2. Only a few years later with the Korean war and the execution of the Rosenberg's. About 100+ Stalinists would be doing 5 year stretches in the Federal Pen.
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Liberalism is what brought you the computer? And all this time I thought it was technological advances that did?
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@Deborahtunes Cry me a river. Bosses don't pay union dues and there are always plenty of jobs that don't require union membership. Don't want to pay dues just quit and go work elsewhere.
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"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." Karl Marx 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program. Does that sound like creating completely equal human beings? It recognizes different human beings with different needs and having different abilities.
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@francescomorales7812 The capitalist seeks to maximize profits. To do so he seeks to pay the lowest wages and work us the longest hours in a pay period and charge the highest prices. The capitalist seeks to pay only the social minimum for the reproduction of our labor in a pay period yet get back the total value of what we produce in that same pay period. .
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@flyinghighagain7712 Six months ago if someone told you there would be a possible food shortage or 30,000,000 out of work would you believe them? The virus has set off a panic in the upper class. Things are not going to be the same. Their politicians haven't got the slightest idea of what to do next. One thing is certain they will try and foist the cost of this crisis onto the backs of working people, farmers and whatever is left of real not fake small business.
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@flyinghighagain7712 Actually we do spend a lot of time writing, reading, publishing and selling books and a newspaper. Almost every Saturday is spent going door to door doing so. TheMilitant.com and PathfinderPress.com
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Ya that water in Flint, MI was real clean. I really enjoyed living in a California homeless shelter. The Cuban revolution was made with all American arms. Keep selling those guns because we know which way to point them.
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@robertlehman9411 Ya like Canada has no controls or taxes on anything. If there is one thing peasant farmers and slaves know it how to do it is to produce food. Maybe as a philanthropist you should concentrate on saving Canadians dying of Drug abuse on the streets of Toronto or maybe helping those Canadian farmers being pushed off the land by capitalist farming. At the time of the revolution Cuba had 3 million people it has about 12 million today that's a factor of 4 Where as the population of Canada went from 18 million to 38 million about double. Canada has much more arable land and is not blockaded by the USA. .
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@FREEMAYKELOSORBO Maybe we should just abolish private property here like what was done in Cuba. What do we need billionaires for?
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You can always follow the male orangutan into the jungle and swing from tree to tree eating low hanging fruit.
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@WarningStrangerDanger Its only natural that some things be centralized and other decentralized. Time is an example of centralization. Is it the same time everywhere on Earth? How about the way people think about time and how that has changed. .
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The human species is collectivist by nature. You don't see any libertarians going out in the jungle and living like male orangutans swinging from tree to tree eating low hanging fruit do you?.Each individual is somewhat different do to sexual reproduction, the division of labor and where and when they lived. What distinguishes man from animal is the use of labor to make a life for ourselves and our species. For to enable the creation of all culture Science, Art and even Religion man must first be able to eat drink and have shelter. The change from the animalist life and the primitive communism of the hunter gathers to the agricultural peoples required the creation of a small ruling class to make decisions on how to use the surplus agriculture created and defend it from war by war. They abolished cannibalism and replaced it with slavery. The agricultural peoples created the domestic animals and domestic plants out of the nature itself. One half of the plant food we eat today was created by the Native Americans. So when some says they created a new GMO well you can say that Native peoples created Corn and Potatoes. The problem with the neoliberal theories of private individuals doing the work of the gods in their individual pursuit of profits is that it is completely historically inaccurate. The Internet, GPS and even the moon landing were all developed and paid for with tax money allocated for the cold war with the Soviet Union. With the loss of the monopoly on the atom bomb which itself required a vast government paid for and directed industrial complex money would pore into education, universities and industry like water to gain a first strike capability in an insane arms race right up to Reagan's presidency and the implosion of the Soviet Union.
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@StudyQubic "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." It's as true today as when it was written.
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@chadasonmcgraw Capitalism has its own "built in" contradictions that drive it into depression and then war. The capitalists are divided into competing trading blocs. The blocs come into competition for cheap labor and markets. If the world were infinite than capitalism could continue but in fact it is finite. The workers can not buy back all that we can produce. The decline in the industrial profit rate sends the capitalist into investing in to fictitious capital while cutting real wages and increasing exploitation as ways to shore up profit rates. The crisis of 2008 showed the world that capitalism lacks stability when 1/3 of the world value of capital disappeared. Trump is already playing with the fire of trade war.
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@chadasonmcgraw I guess you never worked in a factory otherwise you'd realize that the workers run and repair the machines necessary to produce all those products. The only role the top capitalists plays is to go to the mailbox to collect the dividend check. With capitalism every new production time savings advancement means a layoff and back to being in the army of the unemployed. While the bosses toast each other for the temporary rise in profits they will see at the expense of their competition.
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Robert Slackware If I don't have toilet paper I have scrap T shirts as rags that can be washed. The thinking that everyone needs to be a survivalist is just more capitalistic individualistic thinking. Ever social crisis that happens under capitalism can be described as 'Your On Your Own". That's because profits come first and keeping the working people divided is the source of all profits. Your free education ends at 18 any more education you must pay for or be lucky enough to get otherwise your worth minimum wage. Capitalism and the capitalist government needs to go in a socialist revolution not the election of a fake Burnie "Our Revolution" election as President. A Fidel Castro type of revolution where the building human solidarity comes first is what we need. Not the elections of more corrupt two party politicians.
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@Bruno Pereira The one problem for the libertarians is capitalism has never worked according to libertarian principles like a non aggression principle that denies class struggle of any kind is real. Then since capitalism already exists whatever the libertarians propose is only attainable by the reform of capitalism as it already exists. For the librarians the government sands above classes that don't exist and only becomes involved when violence occurs. Since private property is the highest expression of human freedom a small class of capitalist owners always maintains the right to break strikes using the police. The workers may strike but not defend their picket lines since private property demands the right to hire and discipline by starvation without question. According to the libertarian the rights of the property of billionaire capitalists exceeds any number of workers and unemployed should they want to defend their own property from repossession by banks or the company with foreclosure, reposition or eviction orders.
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Capitalism is such a system. They need workers who follow orders not workers who can think for themselves.
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Well no it didn't just originate with the protests against capitalism at the World Trade organization. But it actual dates back before Lenin wrote, " Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism" with the English author and economist Hobbs in his book on Imperialism detailing how the advanced capitalist countries were exploiting their colonies. Post world war two the Imperialist capitalist nations were no longer in the same military position to impose their will in the colonial world. Just like the end of World War one they found themselves facing revolutions and losing control. .
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@austinbosh7402 Before WW2 it was called the War department. After WW2 the name had to be changed because the NAZI's had been charged with fighting an aggressive war. So the name "War Department" was politically incorrect and was eventually changed to "Defense department". The US wasn't waging war in Korea it was just a "Police Action" also because waging war was politically incorrect. The tyrannical nature of the US government was exposed after the "The Citizens Committee to Investigate the FBI" took documents from the Media, PA sub office. Direct evidence of the FBI as a secret political police force was exposed along with the secret COINTELPRO programs and methods.
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@yodaguy6956 LOL Like the bosses never passed the Taft Hartley Act requiring unions certify themselves to be free of "Communist Party" members.
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@TheRisky9 Insurance companies are an example of finance capitalism like the banks. They were formed by the need to spread risk across the ownership class.
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Telling people that the bosses need to lower wages is the worst thing you can do. Let the asshole in the video go tell his boss at the University that he wants lower pay. The fact that they call themselves the Empire and Golden state shows they got the dough.
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Still 13,000 could be with 3 shifts or 4 rotating turns. From pictures I've seen of electronic assembly workers they all sit next to each other compared to heavy industry or machine shop metal working and assembly. Also is the 13.000 only Foxconn workers or is that an estimate of the total number of all the jobs the plant will create. The plant could be multi story and parking garages instead of lots could be used. Also if your FOXCONN and your getting it for free why not overestimate and take as much as you can get. What you can't use could be sold for a tidy profit.
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@Wesley Buirkle Capitalism at its best one again. Only instead of New Orleans and Katrina we are now seeing how great insurance company healthcare works. Imagine how much better a Libertarian Party guy like Dr Ron Paul would do. He'd be talking about how healthcare works best for those who can pay. That government can't help because to do so would be immoral. He'd say the best solution for the poor was to seek help getting a tax free burial plot otherwise mass graves would half to do.
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Mark my words once this crisis is over it will be revealed that top CDC Doctors treated and empty beds were reserved for Wall Street Bankers, the President, big shot CEO's, Congress, The Supreme Court, and anyone with cash and connections. The poor will be treated under outdoor tents in cots by nurse practitioners at best.
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Primitive communism is when there is just enough to go around. This was the case for tribal people who were hunters and gatherers before developing agriculture. (The planned raising of crops and animals for food.) This lead to an agricultural surplus, a division of labor and a hereditary class that had made decisions. Abundant communism is where the need for a state to defend socialist property property forms from counter revolution has disappeared. It can only be had after a world socialist revolution and further development in the poor nations. The state withers away because there is no longer a need to protect the ruling class, the working class, from itself. Until the final victory of world socialism its is necessary to protect socialist states from capitalist restoration. Mismanagement and corruption by a small bureaucratic layer lead to the demise of socialism in the USSR and China not any kind of superiority by capitalist production methods. Capitalism can not outrun its own internal contradictions. This is seen today in the results of the 2000 recession, 2008 recession, the election of Trump, Brexit, middle eastern wars, refugee crisis, talk of war with China and the tensions within the EU member states.
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Now as to the free speech in Cuba if their was a decline in free speech it occurred when copying the Eastern bloc. Since the rectification period and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc free speech has certainly expanded. Mostly this seems to be generated around foreign journalist being expelled. The Cuban's are quite sensitive to foreign journalist coming in and writing lies or looking for things to justify a condemnation of the revolution which would then justify some kind of attack from the very hostile power ninety miles to the north. Cuba has had numerous terrorists attacks with origins connected to the United States and the disident movement which receive money from US sources has little if any internal support. For a long time the US government broadcast Radio and TV Marti specifically to Cuba and medium wave commercial broadcasts from Miami have always been available in Cuba. Free speech has not been all that safe in the US these days either. After 9/11 the Patriot Act was passed and more recently the Democrats proposed a constitutional amendment which in the name of fighting big money contributors would have gutted the first Amendment. President Trump has called for the firing of sports players for 'taking a knee' to protest police brutality and the first amendment does not apply on your employer's property unless you have a contract that says otherwise.
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@Max Wylde Some people don't belong in the labor movement Janus is one of those. His job was to get workers who could not pay their child support arrested. Like AFSCME Prison guards they should be thrown out. He belongs in one of those Police Blue gangster unions.
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@justinruiz5054 Real wages in the US have stagnated since 1973 with the shift to fiat currency and the end of the Post war (1945) capitalist nations Bretton Woods agreements. As far as rising living standards this is just a mantra repeated ad nauseum by the neo liberals based on inflation and penetration of the world economy by the US dollar. While home and transport in Europe and North America are powered by modern energy sources. The poor are still burning wood from forests and using animals for transportation. They talk of renewables and taxing fossil fuels. While third world emissions by two billion people burning wood and charcoal could be cut with natural gas used just for cooking alone. That of course would require an actual will to do something serious rather than posture and talk about the pros and cons of who pays for what with the taxes and incentives.
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You heard her admit the US Coast Guard is enforcing the blockade.
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@StageWatcher We've shot ourselves in the foot before with DDT and leaded gasoline so I'd rather know more than less.
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@dancing4bears The numbers don't really mean anything besides that it affected huge numbers of people who lived in cities where leaded gasoline was burned as a motor fuel. You'd have to ask a medical scientist and statistician to explain the actual impact. Its is generally thought that any exposure to lead has a negative impact on human and biological health. So in general the practice has been to try to contain and limit its use. Lead car batteries are recycled, and no leaded gasoline except in Aviation fuel.
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@russetwolf13 The teach the bosses to be anti union in business schools because they explain that when a union is established bosses no longer have a free hand and profits suffer such that any advantage the union might provide the bosses like a more stable wrkforce isn't worth the added expense.
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@Lord_Volkner Libertarians dream of a world with no class struggle. It's really as crazy as Mao making steel in every village or Ghandi home spinning cotton only on a mass scale. Basically it's a doctrine to justify capitalist exploitation. It's holy priests are developing it much like a new religion. The love a "free market". Everyone is going to sit cross legged outside their home with something to sell while their mate goes shopping.
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@jabrokneetoeknee6448 Workers power is weakened by the class collaborationist leadership of the unions. Support for the Democratic Party in the US and the reformist social democrats in the so called Nordic countries where monarchs still rein. These Social Democratic gentleman keep the workers chained to the capitalist bosses despite winning elections. Their cheif role is to protect the bosses profits and property as the caretakers of capitalism. Their chief role is to negotiate away wages and increase givebacks to the bosses.
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@uno9331 A union is what you make of it. The bosses would much rather deal with you as an individual because then they can more easily fire you and set you wages and time worked.
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@samgamblewhite8600 I don't like paying for the cops or for rotten politicians in the state house do I then get to refuse to pay sales taxes?
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@VidkunQL Ode To A Scab After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which He made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a waterlogged brain, and a combination backbone made of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles. When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out. No man has a right to scab as long as there is a pool of water deep enough to drown his body in, or a rope long enough to hang his carcass with. Judas Iscariot was a gentleman compared with a scab. For betraying his Master, he had character enough to hang himself. A scab hasn't. Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas Iscariot sold his savior for thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commission in the British Army. The modern strikebreaker sells his birthright, his country, his wife, his children, and his fellow men for an unfulfilled promise from his employer, trust, or corporation Solidarity wins By Jack London
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@samgamblewhite8600 To have union representation the workers vote in a secret ballot election to decide if they want union representation after a card check petition of at least 50% of the proposed bargaining unit has been filed with the NLRB. If the majority votes yes then the union is certified as the exclusive bargaining agent for that bargaining unit. Making freeloaders pay dues or a payment in lieu of dues after the vote is taken is majority rule. You are not required to have union representation in any dispute with the boss. If you come along later and don't want to pay dues or payment in lue of dues then don't take the job. If 30% of the workers in a certified bargaining submit a card check petition wanting a different union or no union at all another secret ballot election will be held to determine if that bargaining unit wants the current union, a different union or no union at all.
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@samgamblewhite8600 This is the system already in place in the US. The argument by the oppositions is their claim that they should be allowed not to pay union dues as a contractual deduction from their paycheck. The Taft Hartley law allowed individual states to outlaw dues check off contracts. Those states with large numbers of union members like the Northeast, MidWestern and Pacific Coasts have dues checkoff while the less organized states like the Southern States and Texas passed antiunion "Right to Work" anti dues check off laws. The American auto assembly GM, Ford, Chrysler plants are all union no matter what state they are located in. The same goes for the big class one RailRoad companies. Boeing in Washington state is union as are many oil refiners. Most of the landline telephone companies are union while the cell tower and cell stores depend on the carriers and lots of cell work is contracted out.
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@Max Wylde The first amendment makes Unions legal. You beng a monarchists whats keeping you from moving to Sweden?
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@Max Wylde Hitler and Stalin both tried that and failed. Bourgeois Democracy is the best type of capitalist government because its the cheapest. It's only when the capitalist class see's itself being kicked off the stage of history that they turn from fascist methods to a fascist government.
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"...Yes, a union can exist, but it's illegal to use extortion both on members and on management to achieve their aims, ..." and you a member of the American Arbitration Association who's bourgeois legal education at the finest of elite Bourgeois universities qualifies you as the ultimate judge for "fairness".
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jhan bass Its an admission that the capitalist don't need anyone anymore since they've got plenty of maids and pool boys.
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@amity 150 I'm voting Socialist Workers Party not for a renegade riding on a Democratic Party white horse.
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The problem for the bosses is the union movemnet is an international movement of workers.
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If Clinton had done it all the hard ass Clinton supporters would be talking and explaining how necessary it is.
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LMAO.
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Yup hire people to do the dirt work of smuggling because you can't find volunteers. When you have to pay people to do the smuggling why won't they just become you ordinary libertarians and sell the medecene for whatever the market demands? She doesn't send in a Container ship because the US Coast Gurad wouldn't permit it. She has sent 800 lbs so far that's not even the dry weight of a single container.
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@chucklindenberg1093 The bosses had their chance to provide a secure retirement by capitalism before the Great Depression. You can't do it no matter how much you and Milton Friedman talk. You want a system where the bosses do nothing but own, inherit and manage. While we do nothing but work for your convenience.
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@brianjones7660 People actually own their homes or pay a percentage of their income in rent in Cuba unlike the US where the bankers and landlords own and can kick you out. No one is kicked out of their home and made homeless like in the US. Neo liberal capitalism with its markets only has homes for those who can pay. A home is something to be used as an investment for the wealth of the property owners. in other words its a commodity to be bought and sold for the benefit of the buyers and sellers making profits in a market.
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@Redmanticore You can not reform the capitalist state. You can demand that criminal cops be jailed and win a demand like that but civilian review boards and more training will not change the real sources of violence the underlying irreconcilable class conflict. Only a socialist revolution like that lead by Fidel Castro can change and bring about a new man, new women and build a society based upon human solidarity.
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@Max Wylde Blah Blah Blah you real worry is not getting to keep a big bag of gold all to yourself. Your a capitalist cry baby. Probably lost all your money in a stock market swindle.
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szililolabu I've read your statement a dozen times it just as pointlessly as the first time. You hate communism? Slow to understand? Understand what? That you hate communism?
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@Johnjackjack The successful teachers strike wave was conducted in mostly right to work states ans state which forbid teachers strikes.
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@empressbisbee219 They need to put more lawyers in jail for having a mouth without a permit.
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@landonpowell6296 Has anyone in the US Media said a word about an actual antiviral treatment? http://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/nacionales/216780-cuba-biotech-industry-has-enough-antivirals-to-treat-covid-19
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There's only one problem for Strossel and others like him. How do you explain the two red scares in America? The first after the Russian revolution with deportation of suspected revolutionaries. The three 1934 general strikes being lead by different factions of the Communist Party two were lead by the faction that was saying Stalin wasn't getting it right. The second 1948 red scare where a hunt for communists was organized by Congress with use of subpoena power and contempt of Congress citation to send people to jail without a trial! Remember everyone could be a witting, unwitting, knowing or unknowing communist or communist supporter. If you didn't talk you must be guilty and if you did talk then you must be able to point your fingers at someone else otherwise you weren't being truthful. Big lists were drawn up to investigate and halt the spread of this menacing ideology. It reached a point where even protestant ministers were under investigation and the inventor of the atomic bomb Robert Oppenheimer had his security clearance revoked.
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Capitalism with its national boundaries also creates national ruling classes the richest of these states export capital to the poorest creating oligarchies in them . The competition between the richest over who gets the markets in the poorest combined with the decline in the industrial rate of return results in creation of fictitious capital and creation of crisis like 2008 that affect the whole world. The squabbling can only lead to world war making socialism the only way out. Some in the US are demanding China buy more or face tariffs and war.
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@ThunderAppeal Capitalism is the reason the US has a pile of 7.500 nuclear weapons.
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@SgtJoeSmith Where are they in CA on home golf courses?
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@Vextos1 No the bosses just don't hire without a seeing profits ahead. They replace skilled labor with unskilled labor first. They don't need people who can think. They need people who will do what they are told and like it. If they needed thinkers they'd have the government paying for more education. They want everyone to be a wage slave. Once you wake up and realize your a human being with self worth you become an enemy of the state.
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@Brilliant Chaos Lets take things into our own hands and fight back with union power. They problem is letting the rich have everything. They are always going to fix the system for themslves as long as we don't start speaking up for ourselves and demand we get instead of taking the asshole in this video's advice and go begging for lower pay.
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Kali Southpaw We can fight back against the law of value by organizing unions with all workers included. Sure the Walton family and Jeff Bezo's won't like it
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762 Goat You "... make 60 k a year and am about to pay off".. your..."250k house." So that proves you worked more than four years. Maybe you'd like a 'hero of capitalist labor' badge?
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Chris Ammar All that shows is that capitalism is a failed system. Nor enough work cut the work week with no cut in pay. Close foreign military bases and build homes and schools with the money saved.
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Ann Linley Yea anyone willing to climb over bodies to the top can be a President and a war criminal at the same time. Steve Jobs start as a thief making blue boxes and he became a very rich one.
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Ann Linley I don't care if they started with only a pair of a underpants in Alaska. How about that great Idea called an artificial satellite (Sputnik) and the National Defense Education Act that followed? Off all the people you named how many hold at least one patent or copyright that started their business? Not two or three but just one? What they all hold in common is the ability to manipulate people and climb over bodies in a psychopathic race to be the biggest profiteer.
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Apple company? An exploiter of child labor and other labor law violations in its Chinese partners factories. A company started by an admitted law breaker Steve Jobs. A man who manufactured blue boxes for the purpose of fraud. He stopped because he was afraid of being caught by the police. His blue boxes allowed for the theft of AT&T Long distance toll service. I don't really care about how he broke laws but at least be honesty about your hero's. In Jobs case his best skill was obviously learning how to cheat others.
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Ann Linley Are goods imported from the European countries made with cheap labor compared to US labor costs? Like a German Porsche or Swiss watches? So a Utopian boycott of Apple iPhones is the answer? You should think before typing.
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"Throw out every modern convince you use... cell phone, computer... wear Levi jeans? Burn them. They are all produced by capitalism." They were produced under the capitalist system for private profit. Before capitalism people wore cloths. Should capitalism have been halted because clothes were invented and used in both slave and feudal times? After all no need to build textile factories when home spinning will do. That was the economic theory of the British Imperialist war collaborator Mahatma Gandhi. Humanity has only had a peak at what can be accomplished with socialism. We have also seen what happens when capitalists are allowed the freedom to do whatever will produce a profit. Like WW1, WW2 and the atom bomb.
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Ann Linley I've had to buck the system since 8th grade. It's easy to give a student a low grade when its something very subjective like English. There a student can write a book report on an imaginary book and can get an A. They taught us how to read using phonics and then wonder why we can't spell. You have poor hand writing. We will take off for that. Use a pen but don't be sloppy and cross out words because we will take off for that. Things and concepts like imaginary numbers can't be faked. Teachers said I did sloppy work but they couldn't argue that I didn't get the right answer.
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Ann Linley Study money? Like how the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank works to replace wage cuts with inflation or why the creation of a huge Social Security trust fund is completely unnecessary and how money earmarked for social security goes into the general fund? In about 1934 the federal reserve bough up all gold on the orders of Roosevelt at about $24 an once. After WW2 the price was changed to $35 dollars an once. In about 1972 Nixon closed the door on the $35 an once exchange rate making it a fiat currency. Today's gold price is $1284.00 an once. Now which would you rather own Federal Reserve stock available only to the banks and the ruling class or federal reserve notes (US money)? This is why when I hear arguments for lemonade stand capitalism I can't help laughing.
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Ann Linley My problems stem from reading to many books in the library and on the internet which has made me into an even greater intellectual junkie. The second part is getting into to many arguments with authorities. I will continue on with my jousting pole approach towards capitalism because its simply what I was meant to do.
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@jpg7616 High wage jobs which are mostly skilled are replaced first. This is what drove the auto industry to robotics. This is also why the general level of education is what many jobs are reduced to. So if you don't understand numbers you can't be a cashier. The same with being a truck driver if you haven't learned to drive a car how can you start driving a truck?
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niki wiki Seems to me he hit the nail on the head. You are just unhappy because he pointed to all the recent policies of the two parties. I would go further and say we need a socialist revolution.
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@i Draw Systems that reward merit and skill. Like the old mafia Don said. "The only difference between them and us is they have a license to steal." The most successful company in the world Apple Computer was lead by a fraud named Steve Jobs. Who started his business career building blue boxes to defraud Ma Bell of her toll charges. The most important skill in business is how to cheat and steal without getting caught.
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@johnc.8298 Blah Blah Blah. The system is in crisis. That's why socialism is on the agenda. You can't control your greed and that will be your downfall.
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@joelsherrer8784 Well if your a Brit, Canadian or Aussy you think that socialism is the Labour Party, NDP or Aus Labour Party. In the US the social democrats are still working on a Democratic (Capitalist) Party takeover. The best organized and most serious group in the US is the Socialist Workers Party. TheMilitant.com
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@AbsitInvidea You talking about Jeff Bezos (owner of Washington Post), George Soros and Warren Buffet. Liberalism the ideology of reformists.
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@Diabolical05 Your talking about the lemonade stand capitalist not the big monopolists like AT&T, GE, GM, Ford and the rest of the big companies. So we should all feel sorry for the Pizza shop owners who are being driven out of business by Domino's? Capitalism works toward creating monopoly not more small business. If you are allowed special minimum wage exceptions what would prevent other companies from getting them? A small businessman should welcome a national government paid healthcare system because it would give him a known cost instead of having to deal with insurance companies looking to extract as much as possible from him with a yearly contract or not being able to offer healthcare while bigger companies can do so leaving him at a disadvantage in the labor market.
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@Spartacus547 Unlike MAGA there is no trademark on the word socialist. Conservatives use the word socialist as a swear word like liberals use Fascist in their battles over how best to save capitalism.
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@dt6692 We are seeing how US capitalism is a failure. Libertarianism is just an invented capitalist utopia that has absolutely no chance of ever being adopted.
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@Bourikii2992 The American Imperialist system requires a standing military to enforce the foreign investment contracts of American corporations. The military and police spending is considered essential to protecting profits while education is neglected because skilled labor is replaced with unskilled labor and machines first in the hopes of boosting profits. The private school education Bill Gates received as a child included access to a computer when only elite universities had computers for general usage. Naturally if you pay the teachers more assure that the students have breakfast and give them a small class size of half a dozen a better outcome is achieved compared to classrooms of twenty five to thirty. Its called private because you aren't invited except by invitation only. The sole purpose of Charter Schools is to de unionize the public schools. The idea is to convince the workers that the inability to fire teachers is the problem and not a system that has less and less need for education and especially an educated working class. The bosses want order takers not on the job thinkers.
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@Bourikii2992 American Imperialism is based in private investment in foreign countries. All one needs to do is see that the US is the world's leading Imperialist power is to look at the size of its Imperialist Army, Navy, Air and Space force. It stands at the ready to defend US Imperialist interests worldwide. Capitalism is intrinsically epolitive of the working class and the capitalist seek to fight it out for profits in the world market because capitalism was born in nation states which makes it impossible for the ruling capitalist classes to arbtrate trade desputes amongst themelves except through world Imperialist war. The Soviet Union ended in 1991 when the counterfeit communists of Stalin's making turn to Bill Clinton and the American Imperialist for economic advices. Lenin and Trotsky were among the first Social Democrats to advocate for national Independence of the colonial nations oppressed by Imperialism. The leaders of the Imperialist Empires that went to war in world war one and two had no interests in freeing the colonial slaves. .
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@Bourikii2992 Ron Reagan was an FBI informer and one time President of the Screen Actors Guild does that make him a "secret" communist also? As a young person Stalin trained as a Priest in the Orthodox church. Stalin had all the "old bolsheviks" who were Lenin's closest comrades murdered after the frame up Moscow trials of 1936 to 1938. All of them were accused of Trotskyism and conspiring with Hitler to return capitalism to the Soviet Union. All you have is a fixation on the secret police. Saudi Arabia has both feudal/capitalism and dictatorship. Yeltsin forced though all his free market reforms for shock therapy on advice from Milton Freedman and the American Imperialists. Bill Clinton gave him an "attaboy" for using tanks to shell the Russian White House (Supreme Soviet). Yet that is supposedly communist Imperialism and the US war in Afghanistan was just an exercise in "Nation Building" Democracy. Sure the US only goes to war to secure peace not a piece of the action in the game of capitalist exploitation.
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@Bourikii2992 That's all tax money that the working class will be expected to pay back with interest because government is too big to fail. The two parties which are really just a single capitalist party with two factions have been in power since the American civil war. Putin like the Chinese leadership was trained in the Stalinist school of falsification and privilege for bureaucrats. Those who wanted to continue the Leninist communist course in the Soviet Union were expelled from the Communist Party and Communist International and founded a new communist movement. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara came along and showed in practice that none of what Stalin did was necessary.for the success of a socialist revolution. The US has Troops station on 800 military bases world wide they make Putin look like a Jr Achievement Imperialist compared to them.
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They want to create a DMZ on the Mexican border.
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@JK-ip5zc That makes no difference. It just means he has a different ass to kiss.
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Maybe you should run on a Yang Gang program of free monthly haircuts.
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@donlebo6824 I'm not a Democrat, Bernie Bro., Our revolution or DSA (Democratic Socialists of America). My Party the Socialist Workers Party runs our own candidates in every Presidential election since 1948. We don't withdraw in favor of one or other candidates either. TheMilitant.com and PathfinderPress.com reflect our politics. Two party politics is filled with hypocrisy including the Tipper Gore attempt to protect sensitive ears.
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@saralopezgarcia4883 We object to being slandered by Republicans as Democrats. The Democrats are your loyal opposition. We are not the slightest way loyal to you and your Democratic Party friends,
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@mikehawk302 If you don't care why do you waste you time saying so? No one cares that you don't care because that makes you neutral unless you seeking to recruit cynics for some stupid reason.
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@mikehawk302 A guy "who doesn't care" is getting all worried about someone without a life? It's a video about communism not how to make pumpkin pies in which commentators would comment on pies. Except for those who don't care about making pumpkin pies.
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@robfromvan Bosses say education is best when teachers are paid less.
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Basically this is nothing more than a rightist attack on public schools to push the goal of private for profit schools. In other words children learn best when teachers are paid less.
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@Khajiidaro The is because the government is the executive committee of the ruling class.
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@Johnjackjack Bosses want us working the longest hours for the lowest wages to make the biggest profits. They only want to pay what you will accept to come back to work for the next pay period.
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@Artcore103 The unions are defensive organizations of the working class what the unions need to do is organize a labor party and use that party as way to make gains for the working class as a whole. Since the Democrats and Republicans are the parties of the bosses.
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@Artcore103 Its the bosses and their government that are short sighted. Their world system of production and trade is crisis ridden because of the natural way in which capitalism works.
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@Artcore103 The weakness in capitalism is that the capitalist seek to make profits and that does not necessarily coincide with the creation of value. The capitalist are the involuntary promoters of modern industry. In doing so capital becomes ever more concentrated and monopolistic. Capitalism generates no wealth in and of itself which why all the modern capitalist economists must deny that the profits are created by labor. This is why the must mystify the creation of wealth. All the early classical economist including adam smith agreed with the labor theory of value. All this talk of how the government is interfering with the smart bosses is just so much nonsense designed to mystify how value is created. Anyone can play the role of the bosses fighting to make the biggest profits with the other industries. What they can't do escape the decline of industry when you run out of markets for products you can't sell at a profit and the international competition between the bosses of different capitalist seeking to make profits for their ruling class. You can't escape the creation of crisis and the drive to make the biggest profits until you end up in a situation like what the world economic forum cries about. All people like you talk about is how we need to give another bunch of capitalist the new opportunity to do the same thing those who proceed them did. How does going bankrupt help when you create an economic crisis like 2008? Sure lets all lock the doors send everyone home and wait for federal judges to decide whose fault the crisis was. Bezos took advantage of the possibility to centralise the search for products beginning with books using internet communications and computer technology. His ability to act as a middleman of gigantic proportions was made possible by the falling costs of computer technology. People such as yourself as easily mystified by numbers and machines.
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@Artcore103 The real problem is that capitalism, trade and money don't produce a damn thing. Capitalism success is based in modern industry and change from the division of labor into a division of machines tasks with the use of generalized social labor in its place.
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@Artcore103 It's not a coincidence that when capitalist overproduce for markets that can't buy back all that can be produced and that they then use their profits to drive up the value of fictitious capital until it collapses creating an economic crisis. Nor is it a coincidence that unlimited competition leads to war between the capitalist classes orgainized into nation states. World War one was the result of Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism as was world war two. Had the stalinist and social democratic labor leaders not betrayed the world revolution capitalism would not have received a new lease on life after world war two. This however is the era of war and revolution with the lesson of the Russian and Cuban Revolution still making an impact upon world history. The era of fascism was defeated at great cost by the Soviet Workers. The final battle between labor and capital will take place in the United States as once the American capitalist ruling class is defeated the rest of the world will stand up and cheer.
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Trainrhys The whole history of American capitalism is that when a strike is effective the bosses turned to state and military violence to break strikes. Starting with the great railway strike of 1877. The same year Republican's betrayed Southern Reconstruction governments with the compromise of 1877. They also throw Constitutional rights out the window when they face a militant labor leadership. In 1940 FDR began the second witch hunt with the Smith "gag" Act prosecution of 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters for opposition to the coming Imperialist war.
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America is a two stooge party capitalist dictatorship. Stooges rotate in and out of office and nothing ever changes.
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I don't vote for the two stooge parties so I am not the cause of price fixing. Keeping up the price of milk for the mostly family farmer dairy farmer is a good thing because it guarantees that milk will be there. Keeping up the price of milk in the supermarket is price fixing for profit only. What is Trump really independent of? His elite education at U Penn? Or how about Congress? Is he independent of them? He can issue presidential orders and directives but for most of the rest of his ideas or plans he is required to get legislation passed by Congress. Republicans in the Congress don't pass anything because they are caught between campaign donors and voters just like their Democratic opponents. Most of our lives are spent at work where we have no say in much of anything. Isn't that the definition of dictatorship? If you don't like something your choose is to follow that order or quit. Don't contradict your boss or risk being fired. He can yell at you but if yell back out the door you go. Now every two years you get to vote for someone who will do little to nothing to change anything in your daily life. Is that democracy?
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"Democracy is the fairest way people have found to take shit from each other. Everyone gets an equal say in what gets taken from who!" Is that true in the United States? Wages adjusted for inflation have been stagnate for the last 25 years and the minimum wage when adjusted for inflation has declined. The cries for a increase in the minimum wage are meet with scorn and fake concern for the mismanaging cockroach capitalist who will discharge his employees. The private pensions based in unionized industry have disappeared with the unions as well as the private company paid insurance plans and other perks. Productivity is up and so the value of stocks has skyrocketed and big companies were bailed out of problems caused by their own greed and now you have the nerve to say something as repugnant as that? Golden parachutes go to mismangers while workers are thrown on the streets. By your definition of democracy that can't be what we have it can only be dictatorship because obviously the riches are rising for the richest of the ruling class.
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If that's you answer Johnson I rest my case. The boy who cried zombie That's right socialism raises the working class up to be the ruling class. It gets rid of the problems of the continuous need for cheaper labor and a decline in return on industrial investment that leads to the rise of fictitious capital and financial collapse. War and the battle between different Imperialist nation states for colonies, cheap labor and natural resources also becomes unnecessary. When the next socialist revolution breaks out the revolutionaries will not be stuck with the cobwebs of Stalinism and be much clearer on the question of a privileged bureaucracy. The Stalinist have lost their battle with Trotsky. Since they no longer control one third of the earth they can't act as sellouts with their Socialism in one country theory. Which meant that everybody was supposed give up every struggle as a defense of the Soviet Union's bureaucracy and detente with Imperialism was the most important struggle everywhere. The Chinese Stalinist learned early on that the could do detente without a following of officially recognized parties and that's why the Maoist movement has always been small despite the revolution in China and the Sino Soviet split.
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The original intent was correct but the founders could not conceive of an industrial society. They were also dreamers which is the same thing you cause me of. The English Republic had failed so why didn't the framers just set up another kingdom? Marxism doesn't rely on utopian ideas to bring about a revolution. Instead Marx saw a class struggle originating out of capitalism itself as the motive force for a new society. It's not about building a massive bureaucracy like capitalist America which requires them in an effort by the capitalist to control their own greed. They don't trust the workers which is why the don't allow our unions to do the regulation with scientific advice. It's not about building massive prisons for the mentally ill and those who have become demoralized by a system that can not use all the labor available and instead must imprison it so it can be exploited for sub minimum wages. This is a system that becomes more irrational and makes less sense each day it is allowed to continue.
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There you have it embedding in the Constitution itself the right to revolution amendments. No matter how much things get messed up in Congress and the rest of government you have the right to argue about it, protest it and if necessary change it by force of arms as a last resort. If you compare our Bill of Rights to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms you will see that ours written over 200 years ago is much more radical while there's written in the 2nd half of the 20th century contains a limitations clause. In fact the ultimate power in Canada still belongs to the English Monarchy in the form of the Governor General of Canada who is appointed and serves at the pleasure of the English Monarchy not the elected parliament or Governor general's life appointmented members of the Canadian Senate who must be property owners and do exercise their veto power.
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Once a revolutionary government comes to power we will institute a currency change which will make your horded money worthless.
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The decline in health care is the natural result of capitalism and the bosses greed. Lots of workers belonged to unions and union contracts had healthcare included. Many non union bosses had healthcare included as a way to both keep out the unions and make themselves competitive with union jobs. Starting in the late 1970's the bosses have been on takeback anti union drives. Healthcare was a fixed cost they wanted to reduce and eliminate. They have done this in a number of ways. First by breaking unions and declaring bankruptcy so they can then reopen nonunion elsewhere. This is why so little coal comes from union mines today. In other areas they now hire through temp labor agencies without benefits which can be shut down should any on the job union talk be heard. They have added waiting periods along with increased rules so that they can dangle benefits in front of your face for a year latter in which time they will fire you for some reason or other.
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According to the World Bank as of 2015 the average life expectancy in Cuba is slightly higher than the US and the infant mortality rate is lower than the US. What this proves is that Cuban Communism works and American capitalism doesn't. If you have money and go to the Doctor they will fall all over you in treatment. If you're from the working class and go to the clinic they say you're at the wrong clinic go elsewhere. Then you call and get an answering machine saying they will call back which they never do. You're just a nobody that they don't really have any time for or somebody to fill the schedule time that is open.
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"In fact, every other country in the world that has no communism, has better health care than Cuba and they are all democratic free market economies. So there you go, you are proven wrong. " Look anybody can repeat propaganda mantras so where are you figures and statistics? That's not what the world bank says when using life expectancy and infant mortality of course they're not real capitalists and of course their are no real capitalists in America. Bill Gates is just a self employed guy worth billions. Actually Cuban communism has everything to do with healthcare since they have the Latin American School of Medicine. They train foreign Doctors worldwide all on Cuba's dime. The US health care system relies on the immigration of foreign Doctors. Keep beating the same old drum for Clinton, Trump, Reagan and Bush. The Soviet Union has been gone for over twenty five years now so how is capitalism doing their now? Improving life for Putin no doubt. While everybody is fighting against even worse corruption. People have been yelling about how free markets are solving all problems and when they don't then obviously there are no free markets or the whole thing is just more capitalist bullshit utopia talk.
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Right keep telling everybody there is no capitalism here or anywhere. Sooner later you should be able to convince somebody else. I guess you've never worked anywhere otherwise you'd know most place require you to get permission to piss. You backed down from your original propaganda mantra concerning Cuban Healthcare why should anybody believe anything else you say? They have already come up with new and innovative treatments for Lung Cancer and Diabetes. Keep repeating that 50 year old mantra that Cuba is going to fail next week. Why should I leave? You realize without people like me you wouldn't be able to turn on a light bulb or connect to the internet.
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Your essential problem is you think the human history is bloodless and that capitalisms return to Russia and China without war and destruction was a victory and not a defeat. If real war had broken out you would have been able to reset the capital accumulation clock like after WW2. Nor can you escape the built in contradictions of capitalism which caused the 2008 crisis of greed. The ideological sellouts in Moscow and Peking have lost almost all influence in the workers movement. Meaning you can't turn to them and offer detente in return for imposing counterrevolutionary defeat. You see idea's have a life of their own and the barriers once in place around China, Russia and Eastern Europe are lower than ever before. Now the revolutionary ideas forced out of the Soviet Union by Stalin himself were kept alive within the United States are now free to recirculate back into the old Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China.
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In the US 8 out of 10 small businesses fail within 18 months. Most professions or trades require licences. Licenses usually require some kind of additional apprenticeship in addition to education. Still think everybody can be whatever they fucking want to be?
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Stossel fails to tell the whole truth concerning the hanging order. It was a response to the rich hording grain during the civil war that would have cost many more lives in the cities should the grain shortage result in starvation in the cities. There was a debate in the area concerned over should grain only be sought through revolutionary propaganda or should force be used. While Lenin clearly favored force 'hanging' in his first order. His second order a few days later appears to be a less forceful demand that action be taken which implies the first order wasn't carried out.
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@stephenparry6811 I guess as long as its wearing Made in America cloths any action by Congress is OKay in the battle against Godless Communism. Don't get caught reading those bad books in the public library. In fact don't be the librarian who puts a bad book back on the shelf. J Edgar has his men watching for those who check out the bad books. In fact I discovered I was a Hard Core Communist being labeled as such by a University Dean before I even knew a Communist Party member.
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@thefreeman8791 You going to twist everything such that the US is a Guiltless victim in all cases anyway. The central opposition to the Cuban Revolution from the Bastia coup to today has always been based in Washington, DC. The opposition wither from the terrorists or the so called disedents is always paid by and under control of Washington. They decided what provocations are the best to use in any situation.
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@stephenparry6811 Hypocrisy is when US policy claims to care about democracy. When are you going to admit that what they do is totalitarian instead of theses claims of shame on both houses. Did China or the Soviet Union use carpet bombing, supply or use Napalm, Agent Orange, or Cluster Bombs in either Korea or Vietnam? Did they threaten Nuclear war if they didn't get their way? Yet somehow a new US Election created a world "Human Rights" leader from the US Military James "Human Rights" Carter. The same "Human Rights" leader who supported and supplied Pol Pot in the UN and with supplies funneled through the Royal Dictatorship of Thailand. You always want to talk about a dead Stalin (d.1953) and a past Soviet Union (1991). Somehow this past is an excuse for current US wars and violations of "Human Rights".
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@scottricklaroque7428 For a Cuban to get that US Green card you needed to claim political repression. If you change your mind than you can be subjected to deportation and stripped of US citizenship. They had a Cuban Quilt of Genocide why has it and those names disappeared? People have left Cuba for a number of reasons.
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@scottricklaroque7428 The first group consisted of the Batista cronys, then people frighten of a US invasion, and those who want to be part of the consumer culture. You read all the stories about millions of political prisoners and thousands executed but when asked who these people are and what their names are they seem to not have a name.
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@scottricklaroque7428 These so called dissidents are paid by the US Embassy (Interests section) who then come up with incidents for a natural provocation. Yoni Sanchez was a big deal however she is old news now so no more "Human Rights" Journalist awards for her. Even she has decided to condemn the US Blockade. El Sexto he was another big name as a graffiti artists. Now he's sitting in a Miami Jail with out Bail because of Stalking and Death Threats.
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@scottricklaroque7428 In Cuba they don't let in US NGO Human Rights groups because they are considered a National Insult. The message to is to clean your own backyard before asking to look at ours.The Cuban people know much more about the justice provided by the US including the celebrations of Adolf Hitler's birthday by the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. Gerald Reed is still rotting away in jail a victim of Chicago Police's John Burge's Midnight Torture squad. The Cuban Five are considered National Hero's.
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@scottricklaroque7428 A few years ago donated computers were being sent from here to Cuba via the Mexican border. The US CBP attempted to stop them by confiscating them at the border. Now you understand the US attitude towards technology being allowed into the island.
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@Bear Foxtrot I don't need a trip to the USS Kirk in one of the last choppers to leave Vietnam.
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@scottricklaroque7428 As usual it becomes necessary to equate Fidel with Stalin and Mao. Stalin ran his great Purge starting in 1936 while Mao had his Cultural Revolution Purge. Nothing like that happened in Cuba. Fidel and his brother Raul were founders of the July 26th Movement not members of the old Popular Socialist Party. Koreans like Vietnamese were the victims of US Imperialism and all kinds of US war crimes. Heavy bombers were used to "Bomb them back into the stone age." Truman had no right to divide Korea with Stalin. MacArthur threatened to use nuclear weapons on Chinese cities and create a nuclear no man's territory.on the Yalu river. These great bombing campaigns for Democracy were never used on Mississippi or Alabama.
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@scottricklaroque7428 The American civil war is not at issue. US conduct in Vietnam and Korea was one of an Imperialist power. Voting rights were denied to Black Americans in Alabama and Mississippi while the US was bringing democracy with fake elections, out right military dictatorships and War Crimes committed by US Troops and Bombers. The Puppet Diem brothers in Vietnam weren't doing as told by the Great Liberal Democrat Kennedy so he order an ARVN Military coup. The "Made in America" Korean Dictator Syngman Rhee had to be saved by a special CIA flight to Hawaii where he drank Coca Cola for the rest of his miserable life.
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@makeromaniagreatagain9697 ".. the students aren't trained for free. They still pay for their training though taxes..." I see we have an economist here. In US universities the number of Doctors trained is limited by the AMA along with the number of immigrant doctors being limited by the CBP cops. This is done because otherwise the salaries of Doctors would decline meaning even worse health for the people. While no such limits are placed upon engineers. The engineers are needed to increase profits by cutting labor time. Healthcare is limited to those who can afford to hire doctors like maids and butlers, those who can afford health insurance and for those who have nothing they must rely on charity or extended families.
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@scottricklaroque7428 You're the one who's ignorance of world and US history is unfathomable. The US/UK Democratic Imperialist invaded and fought with the forces of the old Czar against the new Soviet Union. Churchill said. "Bolshevism must be strangled in its cradle." The Bolshevik slogan was that of Land Bread and Peace. Meanwhile the Democrat Wilson who promised to keep us out of World War joined in to the Imperialist slaughter. The Bolsheviks signed the first peace treaty with Germany along with making public the treaties of the Czar and the Democratic Imperialist plans for world domination. That was the original sin committed by the Soviet leadership. In the US Eugene Debs was railroaded to prison for denouncing this act of the US capitalist class seeking colonial expansion and world domination at the cost of the working class.
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@scottricklaroque7428 The US made itself into the World's Policeman in Korea. US immigration policy with Cuba is like the rest of its policy designed to make things as difficult as possible. Hundreds of so called Cuban Freedom Lovers are being deported back to Cuba under Trump. Same with the flotilla once they arrived it took no time for them to be arrested and sent to the Atlanta Penitentiary where they then rioted over dungeon like conditions. US diplomats then pleaded to have them deported.
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@scottricklaroque7428 Need to fight what? A bull who has no idea in which way he is going? The US always enters its wars of aggression and imperialist conquest with flowery language about how it stands for Democracy. It is always necessary to play the role of both the victim and the savior. This kind of playbook comes straight from the Christian Bible as the story of Christ. They need to put out lies to gain support. Like the "Gulf of Tonkin incident" and the false story of the "Baby in the incubator" Kuwaiti/Iraq war story. Do you remember when Saudi Hussein was the "New Hitler".
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@scottricklaroque7428 I guess I have exhausted the Good Professors love and excuses for capitalism.
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@alexstewart8097 Can we be sure you're not Alex Jones?
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@spec24 I don't need go to Venezuela to see shelves without toilet paper. All I need to do is get into my pick up and go to the San Benito, TX Walmart its been that way for three weeks now. What do you think now? Should we call this "Trump Socialism"?
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@spec24 So your a smart guy who understands economics? Where does the profit come from in a private industrial enterprise? Who owns the Federal Reserve bank?
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@alexstewart8097 Socialism requires a new kind of state with a new kind of democracy not a bourgeois multi party democracy where the biggest liars with the most campaign resources win.
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@alexstewart8097 That's a basic slander of Fidel or whoever Forbes magazine wants to slander. They do nothing but talk about the greatness of capitalism but then claim to be the friends of the poor. Fidel challenged them to show a single foreign bank account in his name. Did they ever find one?
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@alexstewart8097 I am not a disinformation agent of any country. Go ask Comey and Brennan if they been "communist since their youth" if anyone knows the answer to that question it is them. After all J Edgar Hoover claimed to have plenty of stooges in the CPUSA.
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@alexstewart8097 Obvious it's personal vendetta for you. You and Forbes readers of course love the poor and like General Batista drop a quarter in the poor box after Church on Sunday.
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@roosterboy7357 Not only did the American people know about Stalin's purge frame up trials in 1936 to 1938 a Committee of American Intellectuals lead by John Dewey investigated the charges and found them to be frame up charges. Watch the first few minutes of this official US propaganda film about the Soviet Union in WW2 before the end of the honeymoon in 1945. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo94Q_vGi6k You see they needed the Soviet Union to fight their battle with their Imperialist competitors Italy and Germany. The last thing they wanted was for Stalin to stop early at the Soviet or German border. The war ended when Soviet Troops took Berlin in May 1945. In about a year and a day Churchill would give the Iron Curtain speech announcing the beginning of the cold war with Truman sitting on the stage.
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ghosttrain2066 Like most of the boss class you have nothing to contribute but personal insults. Since you can't argue with facts you resort to personal insults because you are a phony who's total political educations consists of how to use politically correct name calling.
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Biao Long Segregation ended with the 1959 Cuba revolution. Cuba has given political asylum to Black people fighting US racial segregation. Including Radio Free Dixie broadcast by Robert F Williams from Cuban Transmitters which could be heard all along the East Coast. Nelson Mandela first out of the country visit was to meet with and thank Fidel Castro and the Cuban people for their help in freeing him and South Africa from the Apartheid government. Represion of gays goes back long before the Cuban Revolution to biblical times. Being Gay is not the same as being Black. Black people can't hide their Blackness while Gays can easily hide their being gay. Cuba reversed that past policy. Plus Spanish culture is much more sexualy then English cultures.
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@willo1345 I never claimed that all people who left for the US were terrorists. That doesn't mean they weren't a lot of terrorist who did. I live in the US and I comment on that relationship since it's the one that I am involved in. You want to claim whatever from another country fine. Just don't expect me to play guessing games with you as to what your problems with the US are and how that makes you as pure as the driven snow.
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@willo1345 Sure the Cuban's should put down all their arms and go all Martin Luther King so all the "Good European" Social Democrats in the name of Ebert traitors to the working class can take over and run it like Sweden or the Capitalist Banking State Monopoly of Switzerland.
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@willo1345 The US has always used immigration from Cuba as a weapon against the revolution. It's just part of their overall strategy to create hunger and desperation in Cuba. You realize they find dead bodies in the US Rio Grande/ Mexican Rio Bravo river and in the Texas desert and along with the rest of the US Mexican border. Life is not easy in for those who live in poverty. Cuba cannot be allowed to succeed because it will encourage others to follow. What follows is an official declassified US State Department document. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1.The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2.There is no effective political opposition. 3.Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4.Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5.Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6.The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2
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Biao Long So now you are the moral leader of humanity!!! No US Doctors were ever flown in for Fidel Castro's surgery. That's just another lie told by people like yourself. Those who need a stone to grind because of their own shortcomings.
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Biao Long The US Gov't doesn't care about anyone except the rich and powerful US Citizens. Why should I support of a US Government of the Capitalist class? You go ahead and if your lucky you might get the Bone Saw and Sulfuric acid contact with Saudi Arabia. After all Trump says, "We need the jobs." Go ahead and support the greedy assholes who only got 50,000 US Soldiers killed in Vietnam. They were fighting for the democracy of a US Created Military Dictatorship in South Vietnam. A Black soldier couldn't vote in Mississippi or Alabama but they were sent to fight and die for democracy in Vietnam. You either think I am stupid or you are or maybe you get something extra out of the system or at least you think so.
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Biao Long I'm sure a couple of US counter revolutionary Doctors like Dr. Orlando Boshe in Miami made the announcement that they were hired but then canceled. If i'm arguing about why Cuban Doctors are better its because they became Doctors for the right reasons and aren't hacks who can't afford to quit and do something else. Since Cuban Doctors aren't collecting US Medicare/Medicaid and Private Insurance piece rate pay they aren't finding problems that don't need to be treated either.
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Biao Long End the MF Blockade and then Cuba will be able to buy medical equipment.
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@sanniepstein4835 Maybe you should ask Bezos and Musk where they plan to hide out after the revolution?
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@sanniepstein4835 Why do you think the Communist Manifesto ends with? The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working Men of All Countries, Unite!
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@stephenparry6811 The didn't put anybody in front of a firing squad for being rich. The put criminals who had been using torture and assassination in front of squads. Most of the old police force were told to go home and stay out of trouble. Those who began a rebellion with US support were defeated. The US CIA organized rich Cuban's into a a brigade that were landed by the US NAVY and supported by US Alabama National Guard bombers painted with Cuban colors. Those captured were trade back to the US for medivene.
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@RealMTBAddict Bosses can find the money in those big profit statements. Put the bosses on a diet go on strike now.
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@RealMTBAddict What's keeping you from taking up a collection for the bosses crys of poverty?
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@dailyrant4068 Small business is gobbled up by big business as a general law of capitalism. Raising the minimum wage will push up all wages. Rents are high in the cities if anything it will work to increase economic activity in the rural areas.
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@Joe Crawford I can and have read a number of economic texts online at Marxsits.org, I've also read, Che Guevara: Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism. Capitalism has its own built in economic contradictions that the ruling classes can not escape that will send it into first trade war and then real world war. Just like it did in the 20th Century.
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@crossman3940 First of all anyone doesn't mean everyone for the simple reason that capitalism doesn't work that way. Anyone can win the lottery also but not everyone. So you have proved nothing because capitalism works by socially paying the workers only that needed to reproduce their social labor for the next pay period. The special property of labor is that it can produce more in a pay period than it costs.
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You can build protests against injustice legally in front of the county courthouse. Use the rights we have to peacefully protest and build a movement against this kind of injustice.
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Againo your story makes little sense. $20 of PV will probably run a total of two 60 watt light bulbs at best. You have to meet NEC not what someone printed in an installation manual. Obviously you tried to undersize the ground with larger conductors. Most likely you picked the conduit size by what you could fit inside not the minimum size required. Also a real electrician knows better than using the minimum when having a long run with multiple turns, pull boxes and heavy gauge wire. It must have been a bitch getting it in, pulling it back out and back in again. Did you use plenty of wire grease? I beat you had to move something because the wires were to short to easily pull back in after trimming them for the first install. I screwed up at least once when I installed a service entrance panel upside down on a supply house workers advice. We put some red nail polish on the main breaker to indicate down was on.
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The bosses like Stossel say education is best when teachers are paid less.
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The capitalists are not going to hand over basic industry to their employees without a socialist revolution. Such a thought lies only in the minds of idiots. Every capitalist loves government contracts because they are guaranteed a profit on cost plus basis with virtually no risk involved. If they bid wrong they merely declare or threaten to declare bankruptcy and government will bail them out. We have also seen when they have a too big to fail Bank or Industrial company they bail out first ask questions latter. The apologists for capitalism always have a theory that is devoid of reality. Gee wouldn't it be nice if capitalism was able to continue development without Imperialist war which is nothing more than cold blooded murder. How wonderful a world we created by murdering people halfway around the world to save power for the national collaborators of the Japanese Imperialist war criminals.
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Space X is just another waste of capital by the capitalists. It show their complete indifference to the rest of humanity. That money could go into clean drinking water in the third world but instead it's being wasted because a few ultra rich would like to be space explorers.
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We don't need 'greedy capitalists' to begin with CEO's are way overpaid. Stocks, bonds, commercial paper and mortgage contrast are just ways for the do nothing capitalist to suck value out of the economy. DMV is just another case of two stooge democracy bureaucracy. At a big company they treat you the same way as at a big DMV. There is no need for the greedy capitalist with economic planning. What did Bill Gates do other than start with a million dollar trust fund, business connections, the ability to hire, legal manipulation, business manipulation and market manipulation.
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Internet and GPS was conceived of and built first by ARPA Advanced Research Projects Administration. US Military funded. In fact almost all basic science and engineering research is paid for by government funds because the capitalist lack the vision to see past the next quarter. Even the capitalist constantly discuss the problem but have never been able to find a solution other than having their government do the funding.
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How about we give the military and police red buckets and let them raise all funds voluntarily outside of shopping malls?
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"...The capitalists don't use government funding as the solution..." The provide the campaign funds that get Congress elected. They pay the piper they choose the tune. In 1958 they passed the National Defense Education Act. A whole generation of us got to go to college that would have been unavailable otherwise because of the fear of the 'red menace'. The general way capitalism works is to have what can't be done profitable be the task of government. Then they attack the government for doing things that are unprofitable as socialistic. How about we close the Post Office and let UPS and FedEx do all the letter carrying? Why not have private sidewalks and streets with toll barriers starting with Wall Street. You realize Congress is talking about putting up Toll Gantries across the Interstate system to fund infrastructure. Like the say on the Mass Pike "No Transponder. No Problem. Pay by Mail."
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The US government limited communication networks for the advantages they provided to AT&T. They provided a mound of data to back up their rate charges to the FCC and the FCC rubber stamped them. The original internet and long distance internet communications (digital techniques) took advantage of old and noisy analogue lines as a way to get more out of an investment that wasn't worth much anymore. In fact I remember reading one day that the internet business had become so big that they were now building new lines instead of just using old ones. AT&T refused to allow anything that didn't belong to them to be attached to their local lines. So you had to use hand set cradles for acoustic coupling to their network or buy a direct connection from them. Their local switching equipment could tell how many ringers were attached so if you were using more ring current than what your bill of rented devices used Ma Bell knew you were cheating them. Once radio shack began selling ITT brand phones those days of the AT&T monopoly over everything possible came to an end.
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You're just not old enough to remember the AT&T monopoly. Every out of state call in the US went over AT&T long lines. AT&T was the majority stockholder in every operating company across the country except for SNET (Connecticut) and Cincinnati Bell. Only rural area's that AT&T didn't want and a few other places were served locally by non AT&T companies.
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Was it just a coincidence that the Soviet Union built the first artificial satellite and beat the US when they put Yuri Gagarin in space? Unlike the US they suffered a lot of destruction from WW2. Twenty Million Dead Yet they put a satellite in orbit scaring the shit out of America. Congress then passed the National Defense Education Act. Government paid education and research like never seen before.
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I guess you never heard of Leon Trotsky. You certainly know nothing about either the Russian or Cuban revolution. Keep up your bourgeois insults is always shows how smart you are.
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We are Trotsky's heirs. In 1928 they said we had 3 Generals without an Army. In 1934 we lead the Minneapolis Teamsters General Strike. Nothing goes on in the class struggle in the United States that we don't become involved in. Fidel Castro had a subscription to our paper The Militant. We publish books in eleven languages and more than twenty subjects. By Pathfinderpress. The Communist Party USA well they still have a website and a lack of Generals.
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I think I've wasted enough time with you. Bye Bye.
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@oceania2385 The Retail Clerks were at one time considered a skilled and white collar workers because it was a clean and relatively safe job compared to jobs in industries like auto, steal, rail, coal and meatpacking. Clerks actually had to do math or operate a cash register. .
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@oceania2385 Right and if you look at the federal Reserve stats it will show that wages rose with productivity from 1945 until about 1973. The long retreat by labor is over. Strikes and protests are on the rise. Workers at UPS are "just practicing" to picket.
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@oceania2385 Actual workers don't move the needle? Okay don't keep me in suspense what did comrade Gramsci say that you believe is so important? Since he sided with Stalin against Trotsky only to die in prison and have his relatives latter accuse Stalin of letting him die there that outcome in life certainly doesn't say much for him. Trotsky didn't die alone in prison. He left the nucleus of a Leninist working class party in the United States. Fidel Castro came along and lead a revolution that is still making history and that the American Imperialist have not been able to extinguish. The economic crisis of world capitalism is having the same kind of effect on the American workers it did the British just before the British General Strike and the rise of the labor party. Wages stagnated in Britain for years and the reformists said the British workers would never go into class struggle, Post war capitalist prosperity in the developed world ended with the crisis of 2008. Go to Pathfinder Press and order some books.
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@oceania2385 Zero defaulted and paid off years ago. Why?
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@oceania2385 No because to default only means you didn't pay on time.
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@oceania2385 My loans were a small part of an education never completed. I think what you are referring to is the long term tendency of profit rates to decline as capital replaces labor. That is what to Social Democratic leaders like Edward Bernstein began to question because the lives of the German workers and middle class before the war saw an improvement. It was Lenin who came to the conclusion this was possible for a few because of opportunism and Imperialism that for a small part of the working class to be bought off with improvements. This was made possible he concluded because of the super profits generated by Imperialism and the opportunism of the trade union leaders in getting better conditions for a few skilled workers.
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@oceania2385 The point is that the material gains made with the trade unions are always temporary because as soon as the workers return to work under capitalist rule they are placed back in competition with each other. The real gains are made in the ever greater and larger organization and confidence of the proletariat.
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@oceania2385 I'm retired but been a past member of Hotel workers, Teamsters, IUE, USWA, IBEW, and CWA.
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@oceania2385 The liberal FDR put 18 of our leaders of the Minneapolis Teamsters and the Socialist Workers Party on trial in 1940 with the Smith "gag" Act. During the trial the question of the Workers Defense Guards that drilled in Minneapolis after the fascist sliver shirts had been invited by the bosses was raised for violence baiting. Jim Cannon rose in the federal Court room and testified, "We say the workers have a right to defend themselves and if that is treason so be it." The whole trial testimony of Jim Cannon was printed as a pamphlet called "Socialism on Trial." Everyone says its one of the most convincing arguments for socialism ever made. We later put the FBI on trial in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General. A capitalist Federal Judge in New York held Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter's Attorney General in contempt of court for refusing to turn over informer files that revealed a forty year war on political rights guaranteed in the US Constitution.
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@Deborahtunes You only pay union dues when you belong to a union. Only about 9% of workers belong to unions If you don't want the union or a different union you can get a decertification election by collecting 30% of the bargaining unit signatures. If you want a union you need to begin collective actions against the bosses and bring in a union with an election. Any union worth belonging to will have no problem collecting dues even from freeloaders. The unions were built during the Great Depression with militant strikes like the UAW sit down strikes at GM and the Minneapolis Teamsters who waged a general strike against the bosses Citizens Alliance making Minneaplis a union town.
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@jerseyhere8941 Why should we move. When we can make you miserable? You think your loyal opposition the Liberal Democrats are bad? Well you ain't seen nothing yet. So far you've thrown 35 million out of their jobs over a virus. How happy do you think that's going to make them? Comrade (I use to be a socialist.) Peterson is going to be fully blasted out of his chair over what's coming next.
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Nelson is just a bossman talking down and dirty. They made him forman and gave him a head transplant to reduce the cost of language training.for board of directors meetings.
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Dear Stossel, I don't want to pay for your policemen, your military, its cash of nuclear weapons, and you capitalist judge system. Think I can get a Supreme Court ruling saying I don't have to pay taxes to support those aspects of the capitalist government that I don't want? I feel that paying for a US Empire world military command structure is tyranny don't you? Why should we have to pay for that? Why not demand the closure of all 800 US Military foreign bases?
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The inevitable downside of capitalism is Nuclear World War 3 fought with Nuclear ICBM's.
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@nonyadamnbusiness9887 Unions provide the workers with the experience of running their own organizations without the bosses. They learn how to use solidarity to defeat the bosses in the class struggle.
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Panakeje I don't remember him using his name but his real political attacks are aimed at Trotsky. After all few people see nothing good about Stalin since the end of the Soviet Union. This is why talks about if only I were the Marxist Dictator I'd ussure in the damn utopia. Of course if he attacked Trotsky directly it would lead to much more interesting discussions.
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@flyinghighagain7712 In Cuba they had a revolution where the peasants were taught to read reducing illiteracy. They would like you to believe communism is a dangerous ideology because protection of their ideology requires carpet bombing, napalm, agent orange and cluster bombs. The US couldn't stand losing Cuba to the Cubans. The spend their time writing some of the most outrageous lies about Cuba. Do they say anything about how they bombed the island with B-26 Alabama National Guard Bombers painted with Cuban markings? Do they tell you about the 20, 000 who died in the struggle to oust General Batista? All they want to talk about is how his police who engaged in monstrous torture were tried and executed. A trial that most of their victims never got. How a US CIA agents Luis Posada and Orlando Boshe admitted planning the downing of a Cubana civilian airliner killing all 73 people aboard. These terrorist were protected by the Bush family even though Bush claimed no country had the right to harbor terrorist. Bush Sr. was once CIA head but now that they are dead they took the rest of their secrets to the grave.
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@flyinghighagain7712 it's still difficult for most Americans to understand how a society could be based not on free markets but human solidarity. How working people could handle issues like safety and pollution through trade unions rather than government officials easily bribed and based in a state bureaucracy protecting profits based in a capitalist government in DC. How organization could replace hiring and firing where you left on your own with education being a right as necessary for life itself.
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@flyinghighagain7712 No you won't get to socialism by changing faces in DC with a Bernie Sanders creating a fairer capitalism. Only the working people can change the system through their own struggles to end the abuses of a system that puts lawyers who are protecting capitalist thieves in charge who know little other than how to play a game with each other in a rigged system.
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@flyinghighagain7712 I'm sure more US capitalist politicians will provide you with all the necessary "Happy horseshit."
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@flyinghighagain7712 "Fake small business" is when the law is written such that a businesses held by holding company, large franchise company or say a business with a very high capital to labor ratio can fit into the small business category. How would you classify a small business? Number of workers, capitalization, ownership? Shack shack qualified (later returning its money) as having less than 500 employees per physical business location. Some other guy complained with 310 employees and six locations saying he didn't get anything at all. I tend to think of a small business as less than 15 full time or no more than 25 full and part time workers with a total capitalization of less than a million dollars own by a family. I think that is more than generous. Not a company traded on the stock exchange or a holding company run by a dozen people with a billion dollars in capitalization, people owning multiple franchises each viewed as a single business and a 100 worker cleaning or building trades contractor.
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@flyinghighagain7712 Let me try and explain it this way. Most recessions are set off by an economic problem in capital markets what Marx called, fictitious capital which causes a contraction in production and trade. These crisis are cyclical meaning the happen about every ten years or so. They've been hoping to stave off this one with cheap money loans by central banks. This one was technically set off by the virus. That doesn't mean it's not an economic crisis like all crisis before it. The capitalist can't avoid doing what they've done in all past crisis making us pay for their systems crisis.
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Jose C To bad all you millionaires lost the Cuban revolution. Defeated in 72 hours at Giron. Waiting for an invasion by US Marines so you can reopen your gambling casinos, your bordellos, the big haciendas with plenty of maids, a butler, driver and pool boy. Those days when Batista's cronies lived like kings while the peasants had empty bellies and their children had no clothes with bellies full of parasites. The days when the country was run from the US Embassy.
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Jose C You shouldn't expose your lack of knowledge. I don't know who is worse the Maoist or foolish people like you who think the Maoist are Leninists. Lenin's April 1917 theis agreed with Trotsky's Permanent Revolution an alliance with workers and peasant farmers. Stalin was forced to retreat from the alliance with bourgeois liberals which he later revived as a theory with Lenin's death. This can easily seen in Mao's bloc of four classes. Mao had to found The Peoples Republic of China without the National Bourgeois since their rep General Chang refused to join a coalition government a recipe for disaster (Spain, France, in the 30's and China in 1929). After Mao died the CCP welcomed back the National Bourgois making the bloc of four classes complete. Look at the Chinese flag those four stars are for the four classes. Workers, Peasants, petti bourgeois and national bourgeois. Landlords and Warlords were left out.
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Jose C A casino is a clearly a case of capitalist parasitism like the lottery tickets. You get nothing but the fetish of possibly winning money. You actually get something tangible which has a purpose when you buy most commodities or you trade you labor for money the universal commodity.
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Jose C Your the ones who have decided to spend 1.2 trillion or more on new nuclear weapons. The American capitalist are already in a crisis bigger than 2008. 33.5 million unemployed. We will all see how long the supposed non aggression principle lasts. You won't be able to keep your greed from attacking us in the name of austerity to solve you profit crisis and the decline in the rate of return on investment. It's up to us to begin the fight back against austerity. Those protests might look like support for Trump (Who has been smart enough to get ahead of the curve.) but with no end in sight they will grow larger with less support for your politicians. UI promises to the 1099ers are empty since they don't get reported until January. Many of those in tourism bus drivers , B&B, and guides won't see work until next spring. Predatory banks will be foreclosing on homes and small business. With that kind of unemployment bosses will be cutting wages down to the minimum pleading poverty as the usual excuse and how we must all sacrfice.
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Jose C I'm a gas station coffee guy. All that talk about drivers carrying pistols is just not true.
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Jose C Why don't you just code you way out of this depression or have you reached the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?
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Jose C You want me to Code Neanderthal? Char Jose_C Jose_C= Neanderthal Print Jose_C
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Jose C Will you marry the New Chineses Emperor of the New Tang Dynasty?
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Jose C I'm sure with your millions you will have no problem making a purchase or maybe a rent to own relationship.
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Jose C Sure you are. You're on you way to being the next billionary.
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Jose C Where's you proof that I'm richer than you? You claim to have more knowledge so time to spill the beans.
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Jose C Your going to be a billionaire because you a genius who can code and lives in the greatest world Empire/Meritocracy. Your going to be famous on TV Radio and Screen door. Everyone will say their goes the most educated genius of a man in the world Jose C and not only will he be a billionaire but the first world trillionary.
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Jose C What the hell are you babbling about you need to buy more lottery tickets or bet on the ponies if you can't play the stock market. How else are you going to be the next trillionaire. Get to work and stop wining about not being a millionaire. For Christ sakes people are going to think you some kind of communist.
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Jose C A guy like you who gives up so easily is never going to make it to "Shark Tank". I do your coding. job. I give you all this inspiration and now you say your not planning to be filthy rich?
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Jose C I seem to remember some "inferior minds" making a some big bucks off the Mass Lottery. https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/09/30/frequent-cashers-policy-one-year-winners https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/how-mit-students-gamed-the-lottery/470349/
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Soren G Tool? I left MIT over 45 years ago. I had lots of fun sending Jose C to the wood shed. He's really busy now looking out for the rich like any other dumb cop.
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Soren G Sorry but I left the tool production factory (MIT) before I could be indoctrinated. I don't have a university degree. Comrade (I use to be a socialist) Peterson is the actual elitist. Running around talking about all his university "post modernist comrades" as if they are the really important Marxists.Those us who are both Marxists and actual workers don't count. I've never actually had a white collar or supervisory job.
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Donny Danko Screw you since the left opposition are the workers who wanted to continue the path of Lenin and Trotsky. The Oct 1917 Politburo had seven members only Lenin and Stalin died natural deaths. Stalin accused all the rest of being part of a Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center in the Moscow Trials with the beginning of the murder machine. Four of the seven were ethnic Jews. That's one of the reason Hitler was always yelling about Jewish communism. Hitler was a darling of world capitalism including in the US and Britain until he began threatening the French and British Empires. Hitler praised Henry Ford republishing his antisemitic rant "The International Jew" first published in Ford's Dearborn Independent. Ford received the Nazi awarded Grand Cross of the German Eagle just before the Imperialist war broke out. American Intellectuals including John Dewey investigated Stalin's 1936 to 1938 frame up trials and declared them frame ups.
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Donny Danko When the Nuremberg Trials were held the NAZI's argued that they took their Nuremberg racial laws from the American Souths segregation laws. They also cited a popular American theory of Social Darwinism that predated today's American capitalist ruling class theory of meritocracy.
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@basil7292 The Cuban revolution was made with all American arms. All attempts to overthrow the Cuban government originated in Washington, DC because the contras lack a just cause to defend. This is why they always call for US intervention.
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@lrodriguez6691 You just a supporter of American Imperialism injustice and Bourgeois nationalism. The educated loose their privileges when education is no longer a privilege. This is what people like you fear most.
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The basic reason capitalism will eventually fail is because the size of the world is finite. Once new markets, resources and cheap labor are no longer available on the planet the national capitalist ruling classes will begin fighting amongst themselves for markets and raw materials. Without successful socialist revolutions in the nuclear weapon holding states we are doomed to nuclear war and the end of our race caused by capitalist greed.
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Ok you just said two exactly opposite things first that micro capitalism will take over and then you talk about extra terrestrial investment. So you talking about going where? Some place beyond the moon or the moon? By micro capitalists your talking about what? Basket weavers? Micro business going to the Moon? You got to be kidding? The natural way capitalism works leads to combination and monopoly not micro business. You can't just switch over either. Mao tried making steel in villages and he didn't have to worry about competition. It didn't work out economically either. Steel is made in large mills because of what's called an economy of scale. The same goes for automobile production and assembly. Do you think you can buy all the parts to an automobile and make it at home cheaper than buying one at a car dealership? and even if you could do you than think you could sell it at a competitive price?
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@jjkrayenhagen It never fails where they decided to get rid of something and then some economist comes in with supply and demand curves to prove how incentives can solve the problem. The libertarians just want a private tyranny which they pretty much have in the US today. The two parties are funded by corp donors whose K street lobbyist write the only bills that get passed. No one except the lobbyist knows what's in the bills because thing like tax cuts and deductions are cryptically written by describing help needed for specified industries in specified locations so even if you read the bill you would need to find out what firm was making that product in the area. They military is told what it needs to buy and what to pay for it just as the drug companies tell medicare how much to pay for drugs. Business doesn't want to pay any taxes and so everything is being funded by debt except even that is becoming unsustainable and everyone knows it but either ignores it or crys for cut to Social Security.
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It is the same thing although sometimes corporatism is taken to mean a capitalist fascist dictatorship like Hitler or Generalissimo Franco. In general it means corporate or capitalist rule.
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Socialism won't come about through the capitalist government reformation. Instead it will be through class struggle against the companies and their government. As we go into struggle we will change the way we look at each other and the whole world will stand up and cheer with the end of American Imperialism and the beginning of a new United Socialist States of America. In essence a Soviet America.
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@kwannp6141 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!! 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington , April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2
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Those are basically greed regulation laws passed by the executive committee of the ruling class. Naturally they fail because they are placed under corp. control.
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@Kitkat-986 The workers waged militant strikes. In Minneapolis the Teamsters had flying picket squads that stopped all the truck traffic in the city. In Flint, MI the Auto Workers took over a whole GM fisher body plant told the bosses to go home and fought off the cops with chevy door hinges.
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@Kitkat-986 Don't join then. Union membership is voluntary.
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@Kitkat-986 You know what I'd like a custom set of rules for myself also. People went to prison under the Smith Gsg Act in 1940 because they were leaders of the Minneapolis Teamsters union and Socialist Workers Party. To the best knowledge the government never put anyone in jail for not paying union dues unlike paying taxes including the telephone tax that was passed specifically to pay for Vietnam. You want a state issued gov. licence you pay a fee and if you try and practice without one you'll find out the penalties can be harsh. See if you can get away with being a lawyer without a law degree and license. They lock people up for practicing medicine without a license. .
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@Kitkat-986 No see we don't agree on the free market theology. Because then you'd want to pay the lowest wages for the longest hours at the fastest pace to make the biggest profits. As it is now workers can't afford to start a family and have children because you neo liberals have created a world of poverty economic crisis and insecurity for those without property. If capitalism can't pay the social wages to replace the current generation with a new one than the ruling class no longer has a right to rule. You've run everyone and everything into the ground with your ruling classes neoliberal supply and demand limited resource nonsense theories about everything.
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@Kitkat-986 Bosses compete for capital investment based upon rate of return. That's out of our control. You like to move as much labor into fly by night contracting and away from the actual industrial capital. Capitalism works to replace higher paid skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor. That's why "getting a skill" is not a real solution. The problem this also poses is the one of a declining rate of return on capital investment since labor is the source of profit while capital value rises and the labor time to produce goes down. These slumping profit rates in highly capitalised industries discourage profit driven needed investment. We can't fix a fact of life under capitalism. Second your politicians write these greed and not in my backyard regulations then enforce them with your cops. You don't want to spend any tax money building housing because it would interfere in the Real Estate Tycoons ability to profit. What was it 2.3 Trillion for that exercise in "Nation Building War" in Afghanistan. How many trillions do you plan on spending to maintain a nuclear posture? Milton Freedman and others like Thomas Sowell have been telling you what you want to believe about your system for years and now much like the lies told by the Stalinists the chickens have come home to roost. Instead of the "Ownership Society" you have a "Debtors Society" instead of instead of a rising tide lifting all boats the tide went out and beached all the small craft. Instead of a "New World Order" where the rule of law replaces the rule of the jungle you have a "New World Disorder" Where other players see a "rule based order" as a "fixed game". People like college degreed real estate lawyers and professional babysitters in social work have been crying about the pay of electricians and plumbers for since Genesis. Wages not keeping up with inflation is what happens when you disconnect the value of currency with either labor time or a commodity like gold that can be relatively stable in the labor cost of production. You have a system that all but lets you print free money for loans to the biggest banks in the country. So instead of issuing the old fashion wage cut you have the inflatable currency that raises the value of property vs wages.
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@Kitkat-986 When they build new machinery or set up a new assembly line its always done with the object of using less skill and less labor time to produce. The idea that they will hire more skilled workers overall just isn't true. They'd had backhoes for at least 50 years now machine operation like a backhoe is like driving a car you learn the basics and the rest is practice.They don't pay the backhoe operator ten times the wage because the wage payment is based upon the cost to reproduce the workers labor for the next pay period. The 10 guys you say would dig the same hole in the same time would each need to be paid the cost of their time to reproduce their labor for the pay period. The bosses pay you the wages to reproduce your labor power for the next pay period. They can make a profit by you creating more value than your wages paid. The backhoe contractor could not change more than the price the hand shoveler did. Over time the price he can change sinks towards the actual cost. Painting and plastering is a better example because the skill and time needed to pain with a brush and put plaster on lathe has been replaced with spray/roller and sheet rock. They got rid of lots of draftsmen, clerical workers telephone operators replacing them with computers. Lots of machine shop equipment is computer controlled. They have gotten rid of as many things that will need repair or regular replacement as possible. If they decide they need a lot people (labor shortage) with a certain skill for a new factory the bosses get the government to run a training program. The investors want the highest rate of profit (profits/capital invested). They invest both in fixed capital (machinery, tools) that depreciates over time and circulating capital (wages, material and rents) that returns directly after the product is sold.
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@Kitkat-986 Look I'm not going to argue with you You believe whatever you like. No a skilled worker is not worth several unskilled workers since like I said the bosses pay based upon the cost to reproduce your labor. When the productivity increase you wage no longer even follows. That was true from 1945 and ended in 1973. Since then almost all productivity gains go to the bosses. The Federal Reserve Bank Stats show that. The average backhoe operator makes $27.02/hr. You go ahead and see who you can get to dig holes 10 hours a day 6 days a week. If backhoe operator can do the work of ten. If they give you a machine that ups your productivity by 10 they aren't going to up your pay by 2 never mind 10. You don't believe me? Well you find out the hard way.
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@WarningStrangerDanger Time and the concept of time has changed. The British were the first to build clocks accurate enough such that could be carried in sea going vessels giving the British navy the ability to map the world. Newton's idea of time was that it passed at the same rate for all observers. Einstein changed the whole we we think about time incorporating it into space and passing at different rates depending the quantity of matter located nearby. Obviously time is extremely important for travel, transport and in everything we build or measure. The GPS system was originally built to be able to successful launch guided missiles from submarines and hit targets. GPS relies on Einstein's Theory of General Relativity in order to properly calculate location on the planet. The modern world would not be possible without clocks and the ability to measure time. I quess you never heard the phrase "Time is money." Time is intimately bound up with change and information. Ignore time at your own peril.
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@WarningStrangerDanger Maybe not but show me one that can either ignore time or not argue about time. Labor Tools Education Organization and Time are all central to human life on earth. Workers organize and join unions because we want a say over how work is done and our lives at work. The first unions were based on trades, then on industry, the next step is to build s labor party based upon the unions as a whole to battle the bosses in the political sphere of the government.
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No he doesn't because he fails to say that a higher minimum wage means a shift in production away from luxury goods towards things workers need as a social class. People like him will pay higher prices for Lincoln Continentals and advertising budgets will get cut as waste as will talking heads like Strossel himself. His investments will yield lower rates as capitalism is unable to halt declining profit rates in industrial production. .
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Always attacking the unions while billionaires blast off rockets at government expense.
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The most expensive war in terms of war dead in American history was the civil war. The dominance of the Northern and later American Industrialists was made possible by that war. Now Lincoln didn't have to wage that war. He could have acceded to succession and moved the Capital to Philadelphia or New York and allowed the end of the United States. The South could have kept slavery and grabbed up some of the West. Then California could have added the Oregon Territory and made itself an Independent nation. Al so that blood shed, something always found to be so horrible and completely unnesssay by the middle class, could be averted. So was the war worth it? If it was than arguing that blood shed in a communist revolution is wrong implies hypocrisy. England went through a revolution and became a republic. Then England went through monarchical restoration. Anyone think we should become a Dominion like Canada and make the English Monarch the ultimate authority?
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No this is propaganda for big business. They benefit most by a low minimum wage. Bosses replace labor with machines because that's the way capitalism works. That happens in every industry where it is possible not just car washes. They use to have attendants pump gas. So called "Progressives" should stay out. They are unneeded. They should go unionize their own jobs. Capitalism has its own internal contradictions that drive it into war and depression.
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@dantesebastianespinolaorti4378 What's Venezuela have to do with the minimum wage in New York?
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@dantesebastianespinolaorti4378 Inflation of the Bolivar compared to the dollar is much worse in Venezuela.
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@amraceway Orwell left the anti Stalinist communist movement to become a British Social Democrat working as a censor for the British Empire during WW2.
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@jebemtigolaz We have what dead people including Karl Marx wrote and said on paper.
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@charlesbarnard4667 It a shame you can argue any point but have to resort to your ignorance as an oldster for logic.
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@joemarz2264 I suppose only those who's purpose in life is to accumulate a huge bag of gold are not rabid dogs?
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Jake Shattuck Not really all that fun because Engels wrote about "Primitive Communism" in The Origins of Family, Private Property and the State. " ..but the transition to communism is only possible on a micro scale... " "No because socialism, the dictatorship of the proletariat, must take hold first in the most developed countries." Opening a Food Coop or going back to a farming culture of primitive communism is not a step towards socialism or communism.
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@donrutter6765 With in the Bill of Rights are the weapons to take down capitalism and the capitalist government.
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@amraceway It was a very tough time to be a Trotskyist as WW2 was approaching. The war fever was rising in the UK/US. Trotsky was murdered in Mexico by Stalin's NKVD. FDR's AG Biddle arrested 18 leaders of the SWP and Minneapolis Teamsters and convicted them under the Smith Act. The Stalinist flipped back to supporting FDR along with what was left of the Socialist Party. The SWP lost almost 1/2 of the Party to those who now saw the Soviet Union as state capitalism not a degenerated workers state. James Burnham went all the way to becoming a founder of American Conservatism with William Buckley. You can read about that in TheMilitant.com and on Marxists.org in Trotsky's In Defense of Marxism and Jim Cannon's The Struggle for a Proletarian Party.
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@amraceway Cool Dude.
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@chriskelley7979 So if the poor decide to just take from stores or pay a lower price the rich will just accept that?
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To drive profits their way bosses seek to replace higher paid skilled labor with machines and unskilled labor. The Capitalist drive for profits means they seek to pay the lowest wages, work you the longest hours and at the fastest pace.
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@BobDingus-bh3pd Nor does it mean the exaggeration of individual interests like the goal of trying to turn everything into individual private property when even the capitalist have and act with collective interests. Many corporations have multiple owners. Just as we have class and individual interest so do they. Their small group needs to keep their crisis wracked system from getting out of control which history shows them unable to do. The set up the Federal Reserve after a private banking crisis that required JP Morgan to bail others out. The Federal Reserve is a privately owned federally chartered Bank. The Paris commune was the first workers state. It was produced by the Franco Prussia war. It lasted about 70 days before the workers were slaughtered by counter revolutionary forces. The capitalist need an ever growing state to arbitrate every dispute and grievance in their favor. The favor of an ever shrinking minority. Their sole concern is profits as seen in accounting books. It's relatively easy to show that the profit is just surplus value produced by labor in an industrial company. The taxes collected by the capitalist for their government are also part of the system that recognizes that all things can not simple be turned into commodities and sold in a market. If your going to use the police and army its been decided that its much better to put a democratic facade on their actions. As for things like education and healthcare the capitalist view those not as something upon which humanity builds and creates for itself but things to be monopolized and minimized into the hands of a few since their are either an overhead cost or an indirect drag on profits though taxes. Then you have a combination of the bank, the landlord and the government all demanding that tribute be paid for housing and farmland regardless of income to them as if we were still serfs from the middle ages.
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@jimwerther Labor produces more than the cost to reproduce it for another pay period that is the secret to capital accumulation. This is why the bosses seek to get us to work the longest hours at the lowest wages and at the fastest rate.
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@jimwerther So I don't use the English of the American ruling class. As far as economics goes I can run rings around most of your so called scholars. Who aren't scholars at all but collections of different groups of fools arguing on how to keep capitalism going or pretending that it can just self regulate and fix its problems. The capitalist all crave what they can't have a world for their stable exploitation.
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@johnc.8298 Lets not forget the newest reason is they went to these elite universities where they are now a meritocracy who rule based upon IQ.
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@Irishhound Socialism is not long term welfare but the reordering of production under workers control of industrial production with planing. The capitalist already plan many aspects of production they however plan production based upon profits for themselves as opposed to the needs of everyone else.
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@theodorebear6714 You don't need a bump stock for anything but being a showoff or a war. If you think they're so valuable but to stupid to hide them and advertise them like your doing now than you deserve to go to jail for being to stupid for your own good.
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Bosses chasing bigger profits closed down Detroit.
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@sten260 The debt is owned to the bosses who should be paying taxes instead of getting tax money to pay off loans.
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EPLURiBusUNUM Before they could leave the farm. Farm productivity had to rise. Now that millions of poor peasants are now workers that just make the working class all that much stronger. The capitalist are greedy. Their greed can't help to create class struggle. Just remember you need us but we don't need you. We are a class of people who produce everything while you do nothing. Steve Jobs who you worship began his business career as an industrial thief. He build and sold blue boxes to defraud AT&T of their long distance toll charges.
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@chadasonmcgraw Like most bosses you can talk about much with us without bringing up bodily functions as a way to explain everything.
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@Rat-Builder Right both parties are doing so well with the coronavirus. Afterall Rush Limbaugh Medal of Freedom winner said it was just another Get Trump scam. by using the CCP as late as March 13 to combat nothing but a common cold virus. The Chinese were supposedly laughing at us. Now Congress is passing "Trump Socialism". Since they have had the dickens scared out of them.
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Robert Slackware No Congress spent its time in its fake impeachment activity and people like you and Tump Medal of Freedom Winner Rush Limbaugh was calling it just a cold virus. I'm in Red State Texas I haven't seen toilet paper for 3 weeks now are the orders issued from Republican Gov Gregg Abbott fake? So you're still calling this a cold virus hoax. I'm wondering if people like those with the screen name Slackware aren't playing with their pud.
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Robert Slackware State, Local, and Federal gov't is completely worthless. They come on TV and tell you to make you own mask and stay home. If you don't the say the cops are giving you a $1,000 dollar ticket.
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Robert Slackware Childern belong in school not making money for some big bag of cash.
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Robert Slackware If I can steal the bosses big bag of cash before I'm 25 and not get caught yes I will be better off in capitalist society.
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Robert Slackware Obviously the Democrats are the capitalist social reformers. Vote for Bernie Sanders and he'll make Billionaires pay their fair share. Like what? Let's set a maximum income tax and a 100% tax on capitals gains made by corporations because they aren't people who need an incentive.
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Robert Slackware We were talking about child labor. No I think you want to make a billion dollar business shoveling horse manure online. If you feel your child is old enough to cut the neighbors lawn on the weekend that's not the same as letting him take a job for some sweatshop boss in a factory. I've seen the White House and it's too big to cut a lawn that size in a reasonable time by a child. I graduated at age 17 from HS and worked in a factory with saws, nail guns and a fork lift. My uncle was the forman and I wasn't allowed to work with any of the saws, nail guns or the fork lift. That was before OSHA.
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Robert Slackware You do see the avatar I chose. I put it there so people see that I'm not a Democrat or Republican. If the kid who mowed Trumps lawn didn't mow the lawn would he be starved and beaten to death? We've had a federal law prohibiting child labor since 1938 how many cases of children being starved and beaten to death have occurred since because they were blocked from working by the 1938 law or other child labor laws?
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@michaelvol8922 The answer is right there in TheMilitant.com newspaper. To rebuild the unions and organize a new labor party.
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@Anne O'NymousYou mean the 30% legacy admissions in the "Poison" Ivy schools like Harvard. There all part of the capitalist elite who were born to rule. That Ivy League degree proves it. Just as Trump who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
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@anthonyhenry9383 Obviously no one wants the cops or FBI at the door except the strikebreaker Reagan and the rest of the ruling class (including the Democrats) who call on them for defense of private property. No one wants the US Marines or National Guard on the street corners like in Berkley when Reagan sent in the National Guard to fix the mess he created by when he sent the Cops to People's Park in Berkeley with shotguns killing one and blinding a second person against the wishes of the UC Berkeley president.
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@Bruno Pereira I am not Stalinist nor have I engaged in Mass murder or voted for mass murderers like a long series of US Presidents from both parties in the 20th Century. We don't preach we are merely the living tacticians of mass class struggle. Communism is a movement that starts with facts and proceeds to draw conclusions from those facts be they triumphs or defeats. Those like Stalin and Mao created new religions out of Marx and Lenin making themselves into living gods with cults of personality. Having political cults of personalities was first pioneered by the English merchants and Feudal landowners who restored the power of the monarchy and the peerage ending the 1649 English Republic or Commonwealth.
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@Bruno Pereira When the American Imperialist want a war they start with a big propaganda campaign because they've always had trouble getting the American People as a whole to sign on to foreign wars starting with the Imperialist Spanish American war in 1898. They don't create poverty except when they are actually attacking another country or they announces sanctions where they act to twist the arms of 3rd party countries to go along with their economic attacks. They also have no problem with any kind of military, economic or political attack no matter how heinous or unjust that kind of arrack it is if its Good for American Big Business then It's automatically good for both parties.
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@Bruno Pereira If the US were to lead a successful global agreement to destroy all nuclear weapons then the 2.1 trillion earmarked for new atomic weapons could be put to work creating things that are economically useful not just here but in the whole world. The US Imperialist won't do that because they need the nuclear threat to maintain world military domination. They need that to guarantee US capitalisms rights in foreign countries. That's why they need 800 foreign Military Bases and a World Military Command structure. One in which oligarchies are more than too happy to join for the access to military weapons to suppress their own people that such agreements provide.
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@Bruno Pereira It's traject that you think that dead people are funny. I wonder how funny you would think being a peasant or worker drafted into the CZAR's army would be? Do you think a lot of young people in the US thought going to Vietnam as a grunt was a barrel of laughs?
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@Bruno Pereira How hilarious JImmy "Human Rights" Carter must of been when he ordered his UN ambassador to vote for Pol Pot keeping his UN seat.
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@Bruno Pereira Well if your with us on ending interventionist actions we are happy to have your support on that issue.
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@Bruno Pereira Trump and Mike Pompeo don't laugh at Cuba now though do they? The murder of a single black man by the police sets off protests by hundreds of all races in the US and beyond and you say there is no class struggle? You guys actually have more in common with the so called Democratic Socialist who also want a reform of capitalism. You say elections are important but your party thinks a fat guy doing a striptease is important? I guess you got a little bit infected with Cultural Marxism. The US government is attacking small business as not essential in its method of fighting the coronavirus. If you're Jeff Bezos does Bezos want to negotiate with Bezos' own government or a real union of Bezos' workers? A wage increase is much easier to deal with because a union will want things like safety and work rules that are much more costly to the billionaire class. If you can't speed us up!!! You can't slow us down either!!!
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@Bruno Pereira For supporting the workers in their class struggle we plead guilty and you can make the most of that as Anti American Anti Business or Anti whatever you like.
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@Bruno Pereira "..Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia laugh at you..." Maybe they laugh at me but no one in the White House has laughed at Cuba since 1959. In 1928 the Stalinists said, "We had three generals without an army." Well today we have many more "Generals" then the CPUSA and the Stalinist don't have an army outside of North Korea.
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i don't know where you get the idea I accused you of racism unless you have a guilty consensens. Most likely you think I'm a supporter of cultural marxism and these Professional SJW's with their 501c organizations who are winning the revolution one food coop member at a time. LMAO
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@tonipernar8745 It comes about by mass movements demanding change.
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@tonipernar8745 They may start that way but the will both broaden out and become more focused. That is the lesson of that last big radicalization of the 1960's. Black working people brought others like young people of all colors into their fight changing a whole generation in the process. The battles against colonialism result in a major defeats for US Imperialism in both Cuba and Vietnam. Fidel Castro gave a big microphone called Radio Free Dixie heard across the East Coast to black rights fighter Robert F. Williams. The FBI who had planned to frame and jail Williams in their campaign to prevent the rise of a Black Messiah failed.
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@BrainRottVFX Why is it that so many of you think that the capitalist politicians of both parties sifted by elections and campaign donations in the most powerful capitalist empire in human history would not "..kown(s) how business works?" They all know how business works. They just don't know how to save capitalism from its own self destruction and its own demise.
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@machinist7230 And you of course as a machinist want a wage cut to support your bosses profit margin. A rise in the minimum wage helps boost all wages. It will not boost skilled wages above a profit level since if that was to happen all skilled contract work would stop.
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@stanwolenski9541 "How does Business work?" Pay the lowest wages and charge the highest prices. Keep incumbents in the market and prevent anyone else from entering with licenses. Go for more of those cost plus government contracts. Get some special tax breaks. I know I must have missed something haven't I?
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@machinist7230 It helps boost all wages which are set from the bottom up. The argument that the bosses can just automate or raise prices or close down is wrong because automation has its costs for new investment and raising prices if possible would already been done. Some on the edge of failure will close anyway. Those already earning $15 /hr will be encouraged to ask for a raise not become resentful of others. Why is it you don't take your own advice and remove your nose out of other people's wages. The class struggle ultimately decides the question of wages anyway not voting Democrat. Clubbing together for better conditions and wages is a step forward against the bosses and towards a fighting union movement that takes all workers into the struggle against almost 50 years of no wage growth compared to productivity.
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@stanwolenski9541 I understand that some people enter small business with hopes and dreams of doing something good but unfortunately the good guy always loses.
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@pierdolio Trump supporters were calling the whole thing a "Get Trump Hoax" right up to March. It just accidently fits into his anti immigration and protectionist trade war policies. Trump and Biden will run for the title of dumbest guy ever born.
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@pierdolio Trump proves that even the mentally challenged can graduate from an Ivy League business school, become a billionaire and President of the United States. Horatio Algers lives in Donald Trump. If Biden wins he will show how even alzheimer's need not stand in the way of Presidential greatness.
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@pierdolio Sure he has done some things that go against what the establishment politicians desired and made things better in some ways and if Biden is elected he will probably also do a few things. Just as Bush passed Medicare D. They will also respond to a certain amount disciplined mass pressure and we will get a negative response when real riots and looting break out. Overall though they can only go so far because each party accepts that private property and capitalism is the only way things can be done.
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@pierdolio Considering we have more prisoners both numerically and percentage wise than any other country yes we need change. My party TheMilitant.com the Socialist Workers Party will get my vote. Our Party says we need to rely on our own abilities to bring about change and not a White Knight or the bosses to make things better.
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greg mccarter Inflation is caused by bosses raising prices. They raise prices to capture more value from our labor with the banks lending more money they get from the federal reserve which creates money out of thin air by a trade of bonds and cash both printed by the Bureau of Printing and Engraving and electronic money. The Federal Reserve is a privately owned bank that pays its owners dividends. You can buy a share at a minimum price of $10,000 set by law. Inflation makes wages worth less and property worth more. Boss propaganda blames workers wages for rising prices. Just like the theory that boss respond by directly cutting jobs when the minimum wage goes up. They can't do that unless they want to cut their nose to spite their face. If they cut jobs work won't get done and they won't make a profit form our labor. If they raise prices they risk losing business to other bosses. If they replace labor with machines that costs them more investment and the reduction in labor time cuts into profits unless they can expand sales with increased production. Its not that easy for them to deal with a wage increase and still maintain the rate of profit. They measure sucess as a profit rate. Profits rates are profit's, what's left over after all the costs have been paid, divided by the capital value of the company.
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@Hello-zf5lq Your asking the fox to guard the henhouse.
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Profit hungry bosses move operations elsewhere. The blackmail you and if you agree to a wage cut they move anyway.
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@joanhuffman2166 The IRS collects you money at the point of a gun as you libertarian's love to say. The unions collect dues voluntarily. You don't have to join or go to meetings. No one has ever gone to jail for not paying union dues unlike taxes.
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The ruling class already has a monopolies on everything as it stands now.
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They are called convenience stores and they are monopolized into large corp like Circle K usually connected to the oil and gasoline company bosses.
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@TheDNAGroup Since the US is in no position to invade Cuba they use the blockade to try and starve the Cuban people into submission.
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Hitler was never elected to anything. The NAZI Party was bank rolled by big business for their pro business strike breaking and political violence. Hitler was appointed Chancellor of All Germany by President General Hindenburg. The Reichstag's fire indecent was the excuse used to round up all 81 Communists and 26 of the 120 Social Democrats deputies detaining them in Nazi-controlled camps. Only then was Hitler's NAZI Party able to pass the Enabling act with the help of other capitalist parties. All of the remaining Social Democrats voted NO "
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@austinbosh7402 How about James Burnham he was a hard core member and a founder of the Socialist Workers Party. Later on he became a founder of the modern Conservative movement with James Buckley. So are conservatives really underground communists?
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@THATMOFODIRT That claim of Fidel Castro being a Billionaire is based upon his position as leader of the Cuban revolution. Unlike other billionaire dictators he doesn't have off shore bank accounts nor do they want their people to read and write. A real example of a Billionaire dictatorship pretending to be a democracy is what's left of the British Empire. The Queen is the ultimate authority in England, Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Just in case you should forget that you will see pictures of a crown on police cars and almost anything to do with government. The prosecutor speaks in the name of the Crown the MP's swear allegiance to the Crown. The Queen's wealth must be measured in the trillions of Pounds Sterling. Yet you hear not a peep about her wealth and her dictatorships by US Democrats and Republicans. As Thomas Paine once remarked, "...the King need not speak when an act of parliament will do..."
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@austinbosh7402 The US is the most tyrannical and powerful Empire in Human history. What other country has nuclear weapons at the ready, 800 foreign military bases, a military command structure ready for war anywhere in the world, the most advanced weapon systems, and now is the first to announce the creation of a space force to fight war from space. Why all the so called democratic hatred against Cuba and not even the slightest of sanctions taken against Saudi Arabia for the outright murder of a Washington Post journalist?
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@austinbosh7402 That is why you should judge Bernie Sanders on what he says and not what he might have been or said in the past. I not going to vote for him because to do so means to endorse the Democratic Party. A party which has two billionaires as primary candidates. Why try and reform what is already no good? We need a new party not the election of a single renegade who has forgotten the meaning of the word socialism.
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@austinbosh7402 Who used carpet bombing, napalm, agent orange and cluster bombs dropped from heavy bombers in Vietnam while the north never had a single heavy bomber in the air. Kennedy ordered a military coup against his own puppets the Diem Brothers. The were murdered in South Vietnam. As long as you vote for one of the two good housekeeping approved capitalist stooges elections mean nothing.
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@livefree316 "...Freedom is a gift of GOD ..." which is why you will vote Canadian. The freedom we have is written in the blood of a revolutionary and civil war. The change form a Democratic Republic to a tyrannical Imperialist Empire began with the Spanish American war. All wars since, including the Spanish American war, have been fought to advance the interests of the American Capitalists foreign investment. To pull off these charades requires lies from the President himself and repression from the US government against ant-war forces.
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@austinbosh7402 "Countries have been waging wars for centuries even before the United States was a thing." So that's the best justification you can up with to defend the Empire? Others did bad shit so its ok for us to do more.
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@austinbosh7402 I only call the United States an Empire because the state of New York calls itself the "Empire State". New York even brags about it being the Empire State when you cross from Connecticut into New York on I 95 never mind all the other signs at New York state borders which say "Welcome to the Empire State" Even the states licence plates say "Empire State." So tell me who is the monarch the Governor of New York or the President of the United States?
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@austinbosh7402 The US currently has a system that can not treat all. If universal health care were enacted a inmeade shortage of medical personnel would occur as the formerly uninsured or underinsured seek help for their medical problems. As soon as you able if in the ambulance or at the emergency room the first thing you must show is your insurance card. The problem of triage occurs because the system is strained to the capacity now. The number of Doctors trained in the US is limited by the AMA and the rest come as immigrants that are allowed in by the CBP as permanent residents. If you are a Doctor are you going to seek work in a foreign country whose immigration laws are so arbitrary that taking a job in New York for work done in another country will be used as a reason for deportation and 30 years of exclusion.
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@austinbosh7402 (Respect Free Speech) If we aren't an Empire why have an Empire State building? You're the fool who said the US was not an Empire because an Empire needs a monarch. Boston has a Prudential building so I suppose Massachusetts should call itself the Prudential State? They two parties can't stop calling New York the Empire State without creating a big whoha. I sneaked into South Boston inside of a Bag of Potatoes from the Emerald Isle. CBP and ICE got their 30 pieces of silver which is all they and the rest of the cops want. Everyone who won't move in lock step must be an immigrant and ever immigrant must be watched to find out if the hold any Bank of UnAmerica views.
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@austinbosh7402 I didn't tell anyone to call a building the Empire State building but it just might have something to do with the Wall Street stock exchange and the biggest banks in the world being located in New York City. The world's largest cache of gold is not in Fort Knox but in the cellars of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Now who governs the country the voters or the biggest banks and industrial companies by use of campaign funds for corrupt two party politicians. The Republicans have the Billionaire Trump and the Democrats have the Billionaire's Steyer and Bloomberg. Seems like the Billionaires are unhappy since they are directly entering the Presidential elections.
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@austinbosh7402 Here's a list of the Empires military command structure just in case a colony gets out of control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_of_the_United_States_Armed_Forces.
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@austinbosh7402 (Respect Free Speech) Every past Empire has collapsed wither it be the Roman, British, French or Russian. The reason every capitalist/feudal Empire has ended is because the costs of Empire become unsustainable. The hopes of the American capitalists is that in some way the US is exceptional which prevents the ruling class from undermining themselves with their own rotten policies.
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William Loudermilk No the civil war was the last well know progressive act by the American capitalists. It extended the Bill of Rights from just a restriction on Federal Power into a restriction on state power also. It abolished slavery and defined natural citizenship from just unwritten English common law into constitutional law.
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@austinbosh7402 You think that they would just put out their battle plans online? If they do draw up a battle plan do you think they use a countries real name?
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@austinbosh7402 They had no where near the wealth and isolation of today's ruling class. No railroads, no telegraphs, and no cotton gin. They did have leisure time to read. Franklin was a printer's apprentice. Setting type requires you to read in mirror images for proofreading. No wonder he worked out to be an educated man even though his formal schooling end at age 10. Thomas Paine was never a successful business man yet his ideas and writings like "Common Sense" provided the justification for independence from England while Paine died later as a pauper. "They were educated men who knew what they were doing." For the most part they were working upon theories of government taken from the European era of enlightenment. The had the English Commonwealth and Dutch Republic as examples. Lots people at the time did not think they "knew want they were doing" hence the migration of Loyalist to Canada along with the need to "educate' the Crown (King and parliament) with musket balls.
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Luxury Bosses make bigger profits because luxury is a fetish that can be sold like trinkets the Dutch bought Manhattan with. Bosses naturally don't want to pay for education because it would cut into profits. If they are faced with having to pay a higher wage they can raise prices and lose customers or cut other expenses like advertising, boss bonuses or profits themselves. They make their decisions based upon maximizing profits for themselves come hell or high water. A higher minimum wage means those workers will be able to spend more on things they need. This results in a shift in production away from luxury goods to workers necessities. As far as hiring and training goes capitalism always works to replace higher skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines. Capitalist supervisors are paid to get the longest hours at the fastest pace at the lowest wage in a pay period from those they watch for a living. The fact that they system itself enter into crisis and can't match all the labor available with the capital equipment is due to the natural tendency of long term profit rates to decline.
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@Andy-Christian All your doing is making excuses for the bosses. They can't afford this and they can't afford that but they can afford CEO pay and who knows what else they are hiding in their budget. Bonus for bosses, stock buybacks, advertising, and diversity training, WalMart has money to buy new computer systems to replace people and they can cut the pay of other bosses and plans to buy or invest. They can cut their trips to Las Vegas and donations to their foundations. We aren't interested in subsidising bosses who can't make a profit with low wages. They run everything based upon profits, Their profit system is coming to an end because of the declining rate of industrial profit. That's why we say the workers can't accept this close everything down because we can't make a profit. They wasted 5 trillion dollars destroying Iraq and Afghanistan. You want to die and sacrifice for them and their profit system that's your decision but don't expect me to follow.
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@Andy-Christian Why do you want a bunch of slaves washing cars to begin with? Seems to me that's a luxury service and if it gets replaced by automatic car washing that's a good thing. We don't want jobs that are just those of digging a hole and filling it up again. Same with the neoliberal argument that John Lewis made coal expensive compared to oil. Does it not make more sense to burn oil and gas than coal? Is not oil drilling and extraction safer than coal mining. Coal will probably always be needed to make raw steel. We want a system where people can change jobs without economic hardship. We don't want this business where people are thrown out of work, ignored, and treated like dirt on a shoe.
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@Andy-Christian Does the boss guarantee a life time JOB either? From a sensible point of view and not one based upon a boss making a profit than on the job training fulls two functions it creates value as the worker trains and he isn't put in the position of being told he didn't get the right training or some other reasoning after he spent both time and money on outside of work education. The bosses want all the choke points in the economy so they can extract profits. The want the all the gains and make us take all the losses.
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@Andy-Christian If the bosses can no longer afford to hire personal servants like pool boys, landscapers and other kinds of luxuries that's just too bad. If the can't afford to build the next missile defense system or keep up with their nuclear weapons posture I'm not going to shed any tears.
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They can vote for whoever they want and the can almost always vote on either the contract or the leadership directly. Once every year they can vote the union itself either in or out.
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@lisashapiro4714 These libertarians want to create empires of private property.
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@User-54631 That's all the ruling class has for us now, school, prison and low paying factory job. If your a good boy they let you be a pool boy or maid.
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They know how to use monopoly power to make profits. The see money spent on education as profits better put into their wallets.
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@jonathanrichter4256 The monopoly bosses of the billionaire class run government.
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@Ninjaeule97 Friedman actually said a dictatorship like pinochet's was actually necessary to save capitalism. Like all the bourgeois economist whenever the workers are moving to take control from the capitalist class they respond by advising the bosses to drop the democratic pretense and move to direct dictatorship and a fascist massacre of the workers leadership. Which is what happened in Chile. Had the workers been properly prepared for section of military leaderships inevitable coup attempt they could have been defeated by the rank and file soldiers themselves. For a whole nation to enter the socialist road the workers must first defeat the capitalist in their own nation first.
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Clinton received four times the campaign contributions that Trump had. Go ahead and lie to us about how Clinton was the candidate of the working class and not big business? Clinton would have done it for the price of a contribution to the Clinton Foundation.
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Cuba would reject Trump and Ryan which is why the US government either liberal or conservative has lost every confrontation with the Cuban revolution. Kennedy lost at Playa Giron and Reagan at Cuito Cuanavale.
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That's because the liberation of the working class is the task of that class alone. Basically it's the world capitalist as a whole that isn't working. Cut throat competition is the rule for small business while too big too fail is the one for big business. Working class people don't have the time and the money to go to a restaurant or bar.
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Daniel von Strangle "von Strangle" That's you nickname in the Police Squad room right?
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@dr.lyleevans6915 I'm so glad we have a Doctor entering the discussion. Wealth inequality has always been a trait of capitalism. It has nothing to do with which of the two parties is in power. The Democrats hold most big city governments because of the "Tammy Hall" like patronage systems.
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jay dowd I guess you've never held a job more than one or two jobs before otherwise you'd understand that your money wage isn't everything.
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@IIBloodXLustII The US does everything possible to defeat the Cuban revolution. This has always been US policy. The US claims the right to decide what it wants for Cuba. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1.The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2.There is no effective political opposition. 3.Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4.Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5.Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6.The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2 https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06/d499
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@IIBloodXLustII The US Blockade is condemned by nearly every other country in the world. End your blockade and then no one can claim the US International blockade is an unjust act of war. The Soviet Union is long gone so why do you need to keep beating a dead horse? The US demands that Cuba end its free medical care and free education system as a gesture. The US government has shown its complete inability to meet the needs of its people for healthcare during the pandemic. Yet it writes laws on how the Cuban people should govern themselves. It just the sort of thing to be expected by a capitalist imperialist empire. Don't cross the bosses in Washington and New York City or you'll get the Cuban treatment. No one wants your help but an end to the unjust international blockade. Even the US population knows that without international trade the US would enter into another disaster. If International trade was cut off to the US tomorrow morning than the number of deaths due to just lack of medene bought in the world market would claim thousands of lives. You would not even be able to manufacture cars without foreign parts. Nor does the US manufacture a significant number of electronic parts to run its industrial robots.
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@IIBloodXLustII USSR failed because the Stalinist bureaucracy got control after the Moscow frame up trials of the Old Bolsheviks in 1938. If capitalism is such a great way of doing things why treat the Cuban people like the enemy and why blockade the country using the US Empires might against not just US companies and citizens but also those of third countries. Why are US Citizens prohibited from going and spending money there? Why is Cuba slandered as a state sponsor of terrorism which makes every world banking activity a challenge? US Treasury fines third party companies like Siemens for doing business with Cuba. You and the rest of the US ruling class aren't afraid of socialism failing but success. Trump expressed this by promising not to let the country become socialist.
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@IIBloodXLustII The US rulers are so afraid of socialism they accuse eachother of being socialists or communists.
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@warthunder9155 Am i suppose to be afraid of the bombs bursting in air?
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@smartyyoung7319 The welfare state is the last truly capitalists state. It is indicative of a capitalism that is no longer feed by his slave but must now feed his slave. It is indicative of a capitalism who's ruling class is no longer fit to rule.
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This could be just the Democrats po pooing the President but I heard Foxconn has 1.3 million workers in China. That the deal is only for an initial 3,000 workers with the possibility of adding 10,000. While Foxconn doesn't manufacture desktop computers you can buy all the parts except the software from them and assemble your own. While having a large industrial base is necessary to produce all kinds of modern commodities it is the natural workings of capitalism that drive it across all national boundaries in the quest for cheap labor and new markets.
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We once had a large commercial computer and computer chip manufacturing structure in Digital Equipment Corp in Maynard, Massachusetts. However most of the electronics manufacturing moved to 'greener pastures' Like Nogales, Mexico and the China because higher profits with cheaper labor was available elsewhere.
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@Patchuchan Not being able to get into a FoxConn Plant what makes you think that? Outside of military, specialty and government electronics what do they still build here? The greater the number of items to be made in a given time the more automated and the greater the division of labor you can use in the manufacturing the process. My understanding is Foxconn does mostly assembly meaning chips and parts are made elsewhere.
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@brians7181 That's the result of capitalism. A big profit low wage policy. The Saclar family became billionaries with the sale of oxy. In fact when the realized that the opiate crisis was booming they diversified into treatment of the crisis they initiated. Now they, their lawyers and the capitalist politicians are arguing over how much of their wealth they should be allowed to keep.
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@brians7181 First that 100 million includes a clearly made up figure for Cuba such that it brings up all the other claims into question. Second China has gone capitalist which your types have been gloating over for years. The bureaucratic bungling in China can only we compared to that in the US . Whatever China does in general is not good enough for those living in the Greatest Country on Earth anyway. In this case the US is doing much better at its bungling. The Chinese are already distributing anti virals including one invented in Cuba. In the US VP Pence comes on TV to announce plans. Cuba is prepared for the outbreak with antivirals while Pence is still trying to get Google to set up a web site of symptoms. The Cuban medical system is based in the neighborhood with one doctor per 150 people. The US system is based in insurance company profits where about 1/3 of the population forgoes medical treatmnt as to expensive. In Cuba no one will be left behind because of the neighborhood medical system. While the US builds its society of rich playboys and billionaire Presidential candidates. Cuba is building a society based in human solidarity. The typical US response to disaster is to unleash the cops, call out the national guard like Governor Cuomo has done and for the police chief to announce 'Your on Your Own". They've already announced a hierarchy of treatment in the US. Cops first then National Guard, Bankers and Big Phama bosses and workers last.
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F-35B LIGHTNING II fighter jet. #BlueLivesMatter Take a trip to Obama, Trump and Bush's favorite Kingdom. Saudi Arabia. Sell some bones saws and sulfuric acid. While you at it bring in a suitcase full of bibles. Enjoy the wonderful accommodations provided by the religious police. Just don't get to excited and lose your head over the holy world of the keeper of the two holy mosques.
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US government is elected by big money that makes it a capitalist government. Its purpose is to defend capitalist property rights. Who's going to buy a war? Ring Ring "Hi, This is General Powell." "This is Rex Tillerson over at Exxon." General Powell "Ok, what can I do for you?" Rex Tillerson "Saddam Hussein won't give me a good price on oil can you do an Iraqi war for me?" General Powell "Just a minute. That will be 10,000,000,000 dollars." Tellerson, "Do you take Mastercard?"
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ReeseL4D You assume that socialism means a state operated enterprise. What is most important is what property forms does the state defend. A state consists mainly of a police force and military. If it defends a stock market and a private industry it is a capitalist state. If it defends national economic planning without private ownership of industry then it is a workers state. The transition of one to the other is called a revolution. The old capitalist state can't just be reused because the old professional police force has most likely committed crimes to keep the capitalists in power and the officer coups can usually be expected to be unreliable for the same reason. That's why a new state must be built because the revolution can't easily just take over the old apparatus.
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I gave you a Marxist definition of a state not an English dictionary definition. You're talking about how the state is managed. A capitalist state can be managed by bourgeois democracy like the US which is a republic or a limited monarchy like the UK or Canada, an absolute monarchy like Saudi Arabia, or a dictatorship like Franco or Hitler. A workers state can be democratic like the early Soviet Union or Cuba or it can be be corrupt and lose democracy like the latter Soviet Union or China. A corrupt workers state is unstable it must either undergo a political revolution or return to capitalism. This was essentially Trotsky's explanation of what went on in the Soviet Union. In the US both parties are capitalist parties because they both defend capitalism and their candidates for office are overwhelming lawyers, other members of the middle class and members of the ruling capitalist class. The candidates and two parties rely on campaign donations from the wealthy for most offices. He who pays the piper plays the tune.
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The US has a system which encourages a two party electoral system since offices are winner take all. Workers never set up the two parties as historically the Republicans were founded by the wealthy Northern Industrialist just before the civil war and the Democrats were originally a southern party founded by Jefferson which became a capitalist party after the civil war. Normally elections are such that control oscillates back and forth between the two parties. The last election was different more people entered the process and the Republicans selected Trump despite the officials objections and Sanders was handed a defeat through undemocratic rules and wrangling in the Democratic party. Clinton was defeated despite her raising 4 times what Trump had. This resulted in immediate anger in the ruling class because they same workers who had chosen Obama now choose Trump because of his appeals to them. A large section of the ruling class is unhappy having an untested politician in the white house and has been behind an anybody but Trump movement. This is what happens when a candidate who is a member of the ruling class that they don't like gets elected can you imagine what would happen if the Socialist Workers Party candidate gets elected?
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Reesel4D If you believe what is most important is the state and not the political economics of a society than that is a non Marxist view. The state is determined by the needs of the ruling class (capitalist, feudal, slavocracy or workers) not the other way around. If you want to convict me of being a Marxist well then I plead guilty. The first part of a socialist revolution is when the workers gain political power. The next part is to nationalize and abolish private ownership of Industrial property. In the Cuban revolution no one was told they couldn't continue as an administrator. What they were told is they could no longer use their position to exploit others. The Cuban revolution also broke up the old plantations and made land available to all who wanted to work it. So far every socialist revolution after the workers gain political power has then faced counterrevolutionary violence from both internal and external enemies. If the workers and small farmers through their revolutionary party and governmental organization are to retain and hold power they have had to destroy the old state power, establish a new state power and create a revolutionary armed forces to defend the revolutionary power from external invasion. Will all socialist revolutions go on to become bureaucratic nightmares and then go back to capitalism because the rich run the world? The Cuban's have already answered that question and like Fidel said there will be a revolution in the United States before there will be a counter revolution in Cuba.
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The United States has had two revolutions. The first overthrew British colonial rule and established a national federal republican state. The second constitution of 1789 with its first ten amendments (Bill of Rights) also left intact slavery within individual states and the Bill of Rights was deemed binding upon the Federal government only before the civil war. The second revolution (the civil war 1861-1865) abolished slavery and added the civil war amendments that made slavery illegal (except as punishment for a crime), guaranteed voting rights for the former slaves, established due process of law for all under US jurisdiction, and made anyone born here and under US jurisdiction automatically citizens. Now all those rights look very good on paper but someone has always had to fight to keep those rights intact against a government that would like to ride roughshod over them. The alien and sedition act, the criminal syndicalism laws, the palmer raids, the smith (gag) act, the communist control act, the conitel programs, the attorney generals list and more are examples of government thought control laws and suppression of free speech and association. Now the battle between Stalin and Trotsky may have seemed irrelevant in the last years of the Eastern Bloc and China but the American Trotskyists have been much more relevant in the United States. Our political continuity goes back to before WW1 and the founding of the 2nd International. We have never had to go underground due to death squads, stalinism or fascism like the colonial world and Europe. While the Stalinist dominated the radicalization of the 1930's we pulled off the Minneapolis General Strike of 1934 which opened the road to creating the Teamster's Union the largest union in the United States today. Starting with the Cuban revolution and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee the Stalinists have never been able to keep us (Socialist Workers Party) out of any significant struggle in the United States. The days when they could raise and pass motions to eject the counter revolutionary Trotskyists and expel their members for talking to us are long gone. Today our movement publishes books on a wide range of subjects and a weekly newspaper. While the CPUSA is limited to a web page and recruitment based on nostalgia history rewritten to make themselves look good.
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If anyone has revised Marxism Leninism it was Stalin. Trotsky with his permanent revolution and Lenin with his April theis said that the capitalist class no longer had a component that was revolutionary. This is important. After the defeat the working class suffered in Germany having received the advice to battle the Social Democratic workers as social fascists that resulted with the Fascist taking power in 1934. Stalin's next advice was to form blocs with the patriotic bourgeois forces to prevent the rise of fascism. This was called Popular Frontism. It served up the workers in France and Spain to fascism and the same happened in Indonesia and Chile in 9/11/1973. Georgi Dimitrov was the author of the popular front. It makes the requirement to keep 'patriotic bourgeois' forces within the front a political necessity so it then serves up the revolutionary workers to a frightened bourgeois that turns to fascism for its class survival. The first Chinese revolution was also a victim of this strategy and the only reason the second one was successful was General Chiang Kai-shek refusal to join despite American advice otherwise.
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@zyklon562 This is a US propaganda piece by Cuban Archivo an organization of butt hurt losers who are relatives of the CIA paid mercenaries invasion at the Bay of Pigs. Their director is a former Chase Manhattan Bank VP educated under the Pinochet Dictatorship.
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Of course because dictators like Suharto and Pinochet were put in power by the US CIA.
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@Mitjitsu No it wasn't Bosses like Henry Ford who were racist to the very core. Hitler translated and republished "The International Jew." published by Fords paper the dearborn independent. The minimum wage law was passed after the Great Sit Down Strikes by the UAW at GM. Bosses in South Africa were behind the Apartheid including Ronald Reagan. If companies like Amazon are raising wages without a union its because like Henry Ford they can no longer get the work done with the social conditions they impose. Bosses line up together as a class punishing only renegades when absolutely necessary. That's why Trump is under fire and an occasional Boss goes to jail.
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@Cjnw The only place crypto is headed is into the toilet like the credit default swaps. You can't turn a record of trades into value by mining meaningless special numbers.
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@Mitjitsu Sure along comes some cockroach boss who wants to hire at lower wages so he can make himself bigger profits in the market. In trucking the Teamsters under Trotskyist leadership took in workers who owned their own Truck but not cockroaches owners of two or more trucks seeking a lower wage rate. You want to be a boss go play by their rules then.
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@Max Wylde Strosell and you don't like them because it cuts into profits period.
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@Max Wylde Capitalists don't break laws because they make them. The capitalist state grows as the need to regulate greed does. When e union official becomes corrupt its because the bosses got to his soul bought him off and than thew him away like an old pair of socks.
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@Max Wylde Because the Union officials may think like the capitalists especially those at the top who see themselves as labor statesmen in the union business but their income comes from dues not the sale of commodities. The workers can remove them from their posts the only way to remove the bosses is with a socialist revolution like the one Fidel Castro lead in Cuba. The capitalist state is the result of the irreconcilable nature of the two most important classes, the class struggle between them, the capitalist class and the working class. So any talk of "union thugs" is just propaganda. Henry Ford hired Harry Bennett a former boxer to head security at Ford. Bennett's skill was that of a professional company thug. Any talking at the River Rouge plant was punished by immediate dismissal. The bosses will always claim property rights supersede any other rights in the US Constitution. They've already gutted the Eminent Domain clause giving big company bosses rights to take your home as long as their rotten politicians give the okay to "help the community."
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@Max Wylde The union leaders are all elected either directly or indirectly and all contracts are either directly voted on or indirectly voted on. 99% of the time it's the employers who are the first to bring in violence using private cops, public cops, state police, national guard and federal troops. Bosses got authorization from judges to break strikes until the passage of the National Labor Relation act which temporarily ended picketing injunctions since they were being ignored anyway. In Pennsylvania they had the hated Iron and Coal Police backed by state law and paid for directly by the Iron and Coal companies. Time and time again cops fired first on unarmed strikers using pistols and shotguns.
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@Max Wylde You have some axe to grind against unions. Capitalism can only bring war and depression. It has no way out of the nation state and the competition enabled by the world market. The era of globalization is ending and an era of competing groups of capitalist nations is rising. As it continues it will move from trade war toward real war and if left to its own devices world war. The US Mainland won't be saved by geography as in the two preceding world wars. ICBMs guarantee that while Trump's Space Force can not prevent that.
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@Max Wylde Capitalism was responsible for WW1 and WW2 and it killed 100 million people in those wars alone. Capitalism came into the world dripping in blood and oozing dirt from every pore. All the non aggression principle talk about laissez faire capitalism sio just so much bullshit. It was never true when capitalism was born and the increasing size of state is due to the increasing need to suppress the class struggle. When the capitalist move production from the US or other countries where capitalism began they return to the old conditions of poverty wages, dangerous operations and destruction of the environment because that produces the biggest profits. You of course are the arbiter of all truth and belong to none of the oligaries you name. You no doubt believe you are superior because you read Animal Farm. The biggest of all differences of all trade unions and a Leninist party is the bosses are not allowed to be members. All those other organizations often have bosses as members and leaders and if they don't have no obstacle to boss membership or leadership. Now if wish to be a petti bourgeois critic and cynic well that's your choice. The writer of both Animal Farm and 1984 left the Trotskyist movement for Democratic Imperialism working for the British Empire's censorship department. Maybe he was writing about himself?
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@Max Wylde The Soviet Union was a result of WW1 not the cause. The NAZI's were financed by German big business's I.G. Farben and Krupp Steel. The NAZI's provided strike breaking service for German businessmen. The few workers in The NAZI Party who though Hitler would help them were quickly executed in the night of the long knives.
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I have credibility because I present facts that anyone can check. You have nothing but anti communism based in fear of Stalinism with its lies and historical rewrites. You'd like to paint me and others with that wide brush. Trotsky left a whole historical record against Stalinism. We are the real winners of the cold war because without those Stalinist Regimes in Moscow and Beijing you have nothing to either complain about or use against the world revolution. The've gone capitalist making them your problem now.
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@Max Wylde Do I need to argue with a committed monarchist when I have Thomas Paine who can argue for me? "Common Sense" It's a short pamphlet that sold 100,000 copies during the run up to the American Revolution. After the revolution 1,000s of loyalist left for parts elsewhere including what would become Canada, the West Indies and England. Is a "True Guild" like "True Capitalism"?https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/paine/works/common-sense/index.htm
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Did the Bolsheviks tell the CZAR to go to war? The CZAR and the capitalist liberals made their choices and we made ours. CZAR and capitalist liberals lost. Go ahead and shed some tears for the CZAR and Russian capitalist liberals because I won't.
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My advice to capitalist everywhere is if you don't want a revolution say out of wars. We don't play fair like Bernie Sanders and his promises to make billionaires pay their fare share. Being the unscrupulous thieves we are we'll take the whole shebang.
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@Max Wylde History is full of malcontents. I like Thomas Paine but I understand that Canadians and other monarchists don't. Paine was also a founder of the first antislavery society in Philadelphia and did an excellent job on organized religion in "Age of Reason." another prop for capitalism like monarchy.
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A dystopian wet dream of capitalist bosses.
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We have free speech in the United States because the labor and communist movement has fought for and defined it.
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@_Solaris The same corp. profit hungry bosses run the government into the ground as too expensive for them and their big profit low wages government policies.
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@alexgladstein5136 Capitalism rebuilding after the capitalist nations spent the first half of the 20th century in destructive wars over control of markets and resources. Naturally a resort to outright war is one way to win the battle of the market place and assure monopoly rights.
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In the modern era it falls upon the working class to uphold Constitutional rights because the capitalist government only uphold the rights of private property meaning Industrial and Commercial property not homeowners, farms or personal property.
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"The modern labourer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the process of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class. He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth. And here it becomes evident, that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society, and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state, that it has to feed him, instead of being fed by him. Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie, in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society." That's Karl Marx describing the welfare state in the Communist Manifesto.
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@Da__goat The profit drive of the greedy capitalist bosses leads to a working class struggle against them and their crisis ridden profit system. The first actions the workers take is to take to using union power against the bosses. The bosses respond by calling on their capitalist government to intervene against the workers. Then the workers union leaders will begin to take up the task of creating a new labor party independent of the bosses to win the battle of democracy in the government. Organization is the fruit of strikes and protests against the capitalist bosses and their system and the real road to a socialist world system without the greedy capitalist bosses.
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Don't worry "Trump Socialism" is passing with both parties now.
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Why not make healthcare a human right and pay for it like roads and education.
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I think we could use an amendment abolishing the use of property for purposes of economic exploitation.
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You missed the part where the libertain's raise the idea of property rights above all others and to be defended at all costs as the source of all rights and no interference allowed. .
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LOL you mean a public boss.
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Raytheon makes war profits for billionaires destroying other nations and producing high priced arms. Teachers unions are up against the capitalist bosses in government.
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@MaestroAlvis Unions came into being when workers decided it was necessary to have permanent organizations that could be used against the bosses when the need arrises. They are defensive organizations which make use of soildarity to battle dog eat dog capitalist competition in the workplace. .
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Basicly Janus and his bargaining unit should have never been part of the AFL-CIO to begin with he belonged in the Police Blue Gangsters Union.
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@libertyfive7241 Your full of shit no boss is s socialist unless he's a National Socialist like Hitler. Which is probably your goal.
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@libertyfive7241 Long live the 1919 Hungarian revolution down with the monarchy and the Habsburg scum. The arch Duke got what he deserved.
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I wonder how well she would have thrived under the Chinese exclusion act?
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@Lord_Volkner Libertarians have a cookie for you as an incentive.
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@dekippiesip Capitalism works to replace higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines. Their is nothing special about a business owner anyone can learn how profits are made by reading Karl Marx. Value Price and Profit, Wage Labor and Capital or Das Kapital. What the capitalist can't do is maintain their social system system of wage labor exploitation.
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@user-fs7dv3bq2v Capitalism internal workings lead to crisis after crisis each worse than the last. There own greed leads them into a dead end. This guy sold whole foods to Amazon. Workers control of industry not bosses controlling a market and a telling everybody what wage they will pay and what price we pay. Use collective union bargaining against boss greed. Wages have been stagnant since 1973 while bosses have been getting all the gains of increased productivity. They have been using the Central Bank to rob us blind.
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@Max Wylde Of course I can't be trusted. I'm an unabashed communist not a Bernie Sanders with his promise to make Billionaires pay their fair share. Their is no fairness in the class struggle. The workers can have anything their big enough to take and I think they should do just that.
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@Max Wylde I sleep well knowing that victory is ahead.
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@Max Wylde I no longer respond to people who start with personal insults. You want to live your life cowering in fear of a hell that's up to you.
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@56jklove They grow big and then they rate of profit goes down and then they need to use monopoly tactics to keep up the rate of profit. Each group of capitalist is in competition to try are raise profit rates. This is why they seek to drive down the cost of labor by working us the longest hours at the fastest rate and at the lowest wages. They seek to pay just enough to get you back for the next pay period. They want to control the price of labor the price of the commodity and money in circulation. Our labor produces a surplus which is the origin of both the profit and the taxes that that the bosses collect to fund the government. The bosses want to control what the government spends money on because they see taxes as money that could be going in their pockets.
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@dylantyt6654 What they charge today are sin taxes. Instead of making big companies and banks pay the government pays them and you get a sin tax or sales tax or some other kind of tax that neglects the income of big corp and the supper rich elite.
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@krystiankowalski7335 Pinochet like Franco was a murderer. When the capitalist fear the loss of private property they turn to fascist gangster's like Hitler and Franco.
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You need to be fired.
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This has absolutely nothing to do with Marxism and everything to do with maintaining capitalism. Many of these things are actually attacks upon the materialist conception of the world. The goal of course is to homogenize the middle class layers so as to better control the traditionally more rebellious people with in the working class those who are immigrants and non European. The ruling capitalist class itself is historically overwhelmingly White Anglo Saxon Protestant their wealth and family ties have been determined by the past history of capitalism. That is not going to be changed by homogenizing the more privledged layers. Marx points to capitalism creating it own grave diggers the industrial working class precisely because he understands the underling workings of the capitalist system, human history, why this leads to crisis, and who and how it can be changed. It can't be done by the some kind of fake reform like DEI. The fact that some of these people claim to be "trained Marxist" or following in Marx's footsteps shows their own ignorance or disagreement with the actual Marxist movement and the rich history that goes with it. .
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@eddyvideostar The production workers produce the actual value while the profits are result of unpaid wages for the surplus value produced by the production workers. This is why capitalism always produces class struggle between labor and capital. The bigger and more powerful capital becomes so also does the natural tendency of the rate of profit to decline. So to do the bosses become ever more petty more cruel and more condescending to the workers. This is why the workers struggle becomes one for justice in every sphere of society. For no sooner than do you bring home that wage until you are set upon by al manner of bill collectors, rent gougers, grocery bosses and tax collectors.
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@ceu160193 And when every market is full what happens then? Trade war and then comes world war all brought to you by capitalism.
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@austin7037 A full market is when nothing more can be sold at a profit. Every capitalist wants to make a profit but because of the way capitalism works every capitalist looks for signs that a market has reached the point where continued production will not result in creating more commodities than can be sold at a profit. To continue further would result in losses. So production halts despite needs.
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@austin7037 Considering the unions in New England had fought to keep the blue laws in place that prohibited non essential Sunday work until at least the late 1960's and early 1970's I'd say religion failed to halt the introduction of retail work on Sundays in Arkansas and other parts of the country first while the unions fought it until bosses filed law suites and made arguments claiming religion was interfering with business profits in the New England states.
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@austin7037 Ford Motor company in the 1930's. The same happens to thousands of businesses during a recession. Suddenly their is no market for their product. You might want to listen what Titan Gilroy of Titan CNC has to say about how the 2008 crisis affected him and his company. I don't agree with either his conclusions or his solutions but it is a look into the mind of a businessman who suddenly finds no market for his product.
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@norobbery I wonder where the innovations are in selling groceries? Most likely the ability to hire workers a close to minimum wage? Since the civil war the Industrialist and then eventually the finance capitalists have been in control of the US government. When FDR passed the acts and reforms in the 1930's it was to save capitalism not to usher in socialism/communism. FDR was often quoted as being the friend of the businessman. By setting a minimum wage and outlawing child labor this prevents the furthering of a class of exploited peons. When it was first passed in 1938 its secondary reason was to slow the growth of unionization by the CIO industrial union movement. This blaming of the intellectuals for the problems of capitalism is just an exposure of capitalism not needing educated workers but workers who follow orders which is what the school system is suppose to create.
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@norobbery Capitalism destroyed agricultural slavery in favor of the wage labor, tenant farming, free farmers and industrial farms. Tenant farming in the US has all but been totally destroyed by mechanization and small farmers are driven off the land by government policies favoring the industrial large scale farming and imported food.
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What days a worker gets off depend on the industry. Construction workers seldom work overtime, nights or weekends.
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Most of the cities are under Democratic control so why would you build a large warehouse outside of a city area? Would in make sense to put it in the sand hills of Nebraska or Somewhere in the middle of Nevada? You'd need a whole infrastructure to build a company town in the middle of no where.
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They can't export everything and we can organize foreign born workers into unions both here and abroad.
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@Teekey90 Its been managed based upon profit maximization. As long as the capitalist maintain control of private property they will do everything possible to maximize profits for themselves. That is why they have established the property owners government.
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The Minneapolis Teamsters kicked some butt called the Citizens Alliance in 1934.
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@rayr5950 "You're probably a pampered socialist who's never had to work long hours, that's beneath you I'm sure." I've worked in a number of Industrial jobs with overtime and turns where people like you would quit on the first day. Like climbing a utility pole 25 ft high, circling the pole and come down. Walking past red hot steel on a conveyor only for a coble to happen and see that steel become red ribbon candy in front of your eyes. Working on or with live wires at all kinds of voltages. Climbing ladders and scaffolding.
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@rayr5950 The NEW DEAL was a failure because you can't regulate greed out of capitalism. In order for world capitalism to escape its own demise it needed to destroy capital such that primitive accumulation could reappear. The capitalist though don't think that far ahead to realize that this is what must be done. The do understand competition for markets and resources. This is what drives them into trade pacts where they eventually line up into opposing groups that want what the others has and so world war is unleashed. So in essence it was FDR's WAR DEAL that saved most of world capitalism.
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Crony less capitalism? When was capitalism not a system of corruption legal and illegal? We had a system of unregulated capitalism before the 1929 stock market crash. After the crash the working class paid with untold misery which finally resulted in WW2. Because of the destruction of industrial Europe capitalism had a rebirth allowing the restart of primate capital accumulation. Capitalism is such that unemployment is a natural feature. We don't see it directly today like after the great depression because of all the social programs first instituted by the Roosevelt Administration meant to save capitalism from itself. Food stamps replaced some of the soup kitchens. Welfare replaced some of the begging and Medicare/Medicaid boosted life expectancy. Rather than have massive numbers of the unemployed appear at government offices they send checks in the mail, EBT cards, or to debit cards. Taking them away will make the capitalist richer and the working class poorer.
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@ericg4915 In the US you don't own the fridge and have to get into a big argument with the landlord to replace or fix a broken one.
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Right now n the US everyone is standing in line to buy out all the available groceries anticipating a Coronavirus pandemic.
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i can almost fart my ABCs Well I guess you are getting a good capitalist education. Did they forget to tell you that Adam Smith who coined the phrase "invisible hand" was older than Marx. That Adam Smith was the origin of the labor theory of labor. I would say capitalist ideology came before communism. Your ideas are older than ours.
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"..have no chance of moving up.." Well than you also have no chance of moving down either. I suppose the upper class likes taking the chance of moving down? Let me ask you this question is it easier to become destitute and homeless or a billionaire? If your in the upper class do you want more or fewer Horatio Algers? Certainly it keeps the caste and class structure more rigid to broadcast to the poor that you can become a Horatio Algers while at the same time blocking the road with educational requirements that poor don't have access too.
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sotojoe8 "Here you can own the fridge and the house its in if you want you can own several and then rent them out yourself but its going to take hard work and lots of effort." It takes little to no effort once you can move in the right social circles. In fact the effort lessens as the bigger your real estate business becomes otherwise it would deincentivise the reason for building a real estate empire like President Trump. You don't need to own a house or even a fridge. What need is housing and a fridge. There is no real reason to buy a home and a refrigerator and take on a mortgage except the system pushes you into it. You get to take on all the responsibilities while the bank has none. If you rent than you have to beware of what you are renting but moving is much easier. You may not realize it but the average family moves every five years.
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sotojoe8 Here a source although I read that years ago. https://www.mymovingreviews.com/move/how-often-and-why-americans-move/ If you live on a farm or ranch in Texas than you probably do move less often than people who live in big cities. I'm from New England and the The three Southern New England states are almost like city states. The price of land is higher with the demand for housing. Farm and orchids land is replaced with housing. Old factories in mill towns sit idle, are eventually torn down, or repurposed into apartments. If you can buy a piece of land you must live elsewhere until you home gets an occupancy permit. You wouldn't want to spoil your wealthy neighbors view of the town. Their are also zoning laws like how much land you need to build your home how many bedrooms are required and if a two car garage or carport is required.
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The biggest reason for moving is probably changing jobs or change in family size. The old cities of the east are built differently than the new cities of west. New York is probably the most different. I-10 and other Interstates through Houston 5 lanes each way with frontage roads. I-95 through New York squeezed into 3 lanes each way with pull off areas. The subway serves the city. NJ Transit , Long Island RR and Metro North trains are the commuter railroads. As far east as New Haven, CT as far south and west as Princeton Jct, NJ More often people live on top of each other rather than in urban sprawl. All roads tend to have curves no 75 mph secondary roads 45 usually the top secondary speeds. If you have to drive more than a 15 mile commute you probably unhappy about spending a half hour in traffic.
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sotojoe8 So you have a total of three apartments to rent and now you're a big real estate man like Trump. LOL. Going on strike and fighting for a higher wage is fighting It isn't begging like those who go hat in hand for middle class property tax cut like when you complain about property taxes to Governor Abbott in Austin. He's promising a no income tax amendment so he can raise the sales tax later on. You've got luxures like what? A new couch and sofa? A go to Church on Sunday suit? A new firearm made in the Connecticut river valley. My bet is when you get old you'll be going to Nuevo Progreso for dentures like everybody else who isn't part of the Bush family from Connecticut in Texas now.
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sotojoe8 Let's say I did have extra money to invest would I invest in real estate? No way? Why? Because all your doing is the banks job. Just as if you bought a home but now not only do you have to manage your own home now you have the responsible for the other homes you invested in. If the tenants do something stupid or lets say a fire happens your on the hook not the bank (you agreed to pay), not the insurance company (they never pay full value) and not the tenant (most are renting because the either don't want to own or can't buy). Would I buy stocks and bonds? Nope because now your giving other people the power to manage your money with no control unless you're the major shareholder. The best investment you can make is in yourself. Reading and learning which has never been easier since the development of the internet. Then maybe buying and making your own tools its almost always cheaper and more satisfying to make, do or fix something yourself.
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@bluesader8 IBEW journeymen electricians already average $36.83 an hour. Unlike the engineer the electrician often works outdoors in the cold and heat doing mechanical work. While the engineer tends to work at a desk and supervises others on the job. The IBEW apprentice electrician starts at 1/2 pay of the journeyman and usually spends one unpaid night a week in a classroom. He usually gets a raise every 6 months for four years until he becomes a journeyman by passing the state licensing exam.
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@bluesader8 You'll be much closer to the "recipe for disaster" while the US spends 1.2 trillion on new nuclear weapons. My father in law was a stationary engineer in a conventional plant. From what he told me he spent his time turning nob's to open and close steam valves and watching a for phase sync on startup. Do you need those four years of nuclear engineering to become an operator? Was it worth the debt? Aren't you going to be waiting a long time to be promoted to be a Professional Engineer or are you looking into management?
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@gamalalejandroabdulsalam904 Does that help?
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@bluesader8 I have the math talent to be an engineer but I'd never want to spend all day inside an office reading spec's, going over blue prints or calculating this or that every day. I've watched graduate engineers throw chairs across the room because they can't fix what we as technicians couldn't fix either.
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@allahbole Sure you are and if automation were taken to its logical conclusion you'd also be automated out of a job.
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@allahbole After watching the video I see that as just Karl Marx confirmed. Marx called it new machinery. He pointed out that skilled higher paid labor is the first to be replaced by lower cost labor and new machinery. That the jobs created making the new machines never replaced the jobs lost. Our solution is a sliding scale of wages and hours to spread work around. In other words no overtime while others have no job at all. That the workers should not sacrifice their wages if production time needed goes down in their branch of industry. There is a reason manufacturing buses and passengers trains is profitable and mass transit requires subsidies. You can continually cut labor time in bus and train manufacturing but you can't do the same with a train or bus route.
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Robert Slackware Why would a "living wage" bill lower the minimum wage? The capitalist no longer directly cut wages like they did in the earlier days of the 19th and 20th century.. Instead they use the central bank to inflate the money supply that then creates price inflation. Although the bosses claim inflation is created by the unions forcing them to raise prices. They do the actually price raising. The bosses will raise prices regardless as to whether you a union member or not. By having the central bank add money to the banking money supply inflation lowers wages while it makes property more valuable in terms of dollar value. As an added benefit they can point at workers saying we are causing inflation by trying to keep up with inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index. Even the CPI has been revised downward over time to reflect the general direction capitalism takes in creating more poverty. As for lies told by the two parties well my avatar screams "I am not a Democrat." and a section of the Republican Party has yet to decide creating a phone socialist label will help them in elections. The Democratic Socialist are basically Democrats afraid of being called communists. They and the Republican Party seek to "Save Capitalism" and its benefits for themselves. Not get rid of it once and for all time. Like the way capitalism got rid of the previous class systems of slavery and serfdom.
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@jonusjonus9271 Once none of us have a job then who is going to buy anything or are we all going to be on a stingy welfare check while the boss have swimming pools of cash? The number of highly skilled workers will always be small and their pay will have revolve around what it cost to create another highly skilled worker. Most likely they'll train lots of highly skilled workers on the workers dime with educational loans if they have their way.
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@jonusjonus9271 After thinking about it I'm not all that sure that worker is all that highly skilled because usually the engineers design something, technicians assemble it or direct the assemblers and operators use it. If it needs repair it goes back to the technicians and if they can't fix it back to the engineer.
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@jonusjonus9271 The problem with capitalism is it's based in nation states. These nation states produce first for a national market and then the world market if the world market was infinite than capitalism could keep going but the problem is the world market is finite and not every country can win the battle for market share and this leads to artificial ways to keep markets in the poorer countries the place for the more developed capitalist countries as a place that is their market. Thus contradiction can only lead to war over the markets because the capitalists who are based in nation states. You are seeing this breakup in the trade war developing between China and the US. When China dumped its somewhat socialist economy for capitalism the US capitalist rulers couldn't be more pleased. Now years later they are asking themselves why did they enable their own competition.
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@jonusjonus9271 They always go for the short term profits because that is the way their system works. They can't help themselves because for them profit is king. Sure they cry now but what did they say when the had lots of DEC plants in Massachusetts? They closed down with no concern for all those they threw on the UI line. It was all for the greater good of computer and electronics technology. Whenever I hear how they are crying about losses to China it gives me a sense of deep satisfaction that they are now taking a loss. They basically closed the whole US electronics industry except for defense, engineering and hard wired communications.
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@jonusjonus9271 Sure they are always talking about how they are going to automate everything but who will buy the products of the automated factories? Should they replace all the Taxi, Bus and Truck drivers with AI what are all of those of us who work as drivers going to do? They are building class hatred with all their automation and ever rising demands for productivity while we are told we are being overpaid. A ship of fools is running the system for their overarching need to be the first Trillionaire in history.
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Real communism works in Cuba.
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Because your experience is with corporate dictators called yes men and you just assume that a revolution is built out of socialist dictators like your yes men.
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The cops involved should all be fired at blacklisted from police employment.
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But they can be run for the benefit of the workers unlike a company based upon ownership of capital.
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@eddyvideostar They are all members of the working class and their pay depends on the workers voting for the union in an election. When the bosses had to begin negotiating with unions then they began looking for ways to choose the leaders of the unions and to turn them into toothless organizations.
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@metroidmayhem8463 Small business aren't entitled to a profit anymore than anyone else. If the can't make it that's the price of doing business. Workers shouldn't sacrifice so a boss can go home and live in a big house with maids while you live in a downtown rat trap run by his neighbor the landlord just another parasite like the bankers.
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@HaHa-kl3hx Do you shop at small business or do shop for lower prices at Walmart and Amazon. They've been driven out by big business like Olive Garden, Red Lobster and if you aren't shopping at WalMart your shopping at another big supermarket or regional chain store. Other than bars and liquor stores there is hardly a small business left. I buy my medicine from WalGreens, food and clothes from Walmart, Hardware Home Depot, electronics from Amazon or New Egg, gas from chains of convenience stores, and auto parts autozone. The only thing I buy from a small business is my campspot.
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They all talk about how the care about small business because they don't want to pay a decent wage. They will replace you if they think it can save your wage but the always replace the skilled labor first in any business. They have to raise the capital investment if they use more machines. Amazon doesn't pay taxes because they don't have to taxes for the rich are voluntary.
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You completely out of touch if you think lower abolishing the minimum wage is going to accomplish anything except create more misery. The local family farmer is squeezed out by prices. The owner passes away and then it's gone.Dead apple orchards and greenhouses covered with brush. Small town business your lucky to find a barbershop. I saw a new business open. Know what it is? A self serve automated car wash probably employees four people part time at minimum wage. .
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@HaHa-kl3hx The guy in the video advocates that. This video was made four years ago things are much worse today. Going to need some kind of government jobs program and a new union movement. Just raising them minimum wage isn't going to put enough people back to work. I'm on the old man's dole so we can survive as long as we don't get sick. My sister (divorced) was a tour guide. Luckily she was 1040 all her friends were 1099 so they are screwed. The bus drivers took the buses and drove around DC in a protest.
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@YourLocalMemeAndAnimeDealer Don't join then!!!
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@YourLocalMemeAndAnimeDealer Then go get a job as a boss since it looks like your already one as a dealer and stop being a cry baby. Plenty of jobs for bosses that don't pay union dues or are you really that dumb? That way you can get the top boss to pay you whatever it is he thinks you deserve.
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The neo liberals cut them down as too costly now cheap government functions by using K St lobbyist who write all legislation for the company bosses.
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@kenlompart9905 You have a mouth use it and ask if its a union job. Some times their is no other choice well sorry but the bosses are prohibited from even belonging so if they don't want to make you a boss hows that the unions fault?
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Like the Justice system itself the Police work for the capitalists. Lawa are all skewed for the benefit of the ruling rich.
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The Democrats want union votes and union leaders in their pockets but the Democratic Party is organized and paid for by the company bosses. The unions are organizations financed by the working class membership alone. The capitalist can help but fail in their pursuit of profits. That means they can help but provoke class struggle. Their system is failing world wide.
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@ThorDog81 Wages stopped rising with productivity in 1973.
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@leviboswell9510 They lay people off and then who's going to do the work? The bosses need us a lot more than we need them.
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@leviboswell9510 Workers need to be clubbing together. You get together decide what you want and tell the boss hey this is what we want. Once we start getting together they have to listen. The more the merrier. In retail the bosses need us now more than ever. Now is the time to strike while the iron is hot.
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@leviboswell9510 No you're either a boss or just afraid of the bosses. We struck Westinghouse Electric in 1976 and went back with a $1 hour raise. In 1934 Coal Truck drivers in Minneapolis struck and won against the bosses open shop paradise. Minneapolis communism put food on the table. You go look at where automobiles and trucks are assembled. Most including VW and Toyota are made here.
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@leviboswell9510 China is run by a corrupt communist party and is no more socialist than Sweden or Burnie "Sellout" Sanders. Cuba is the example of a living Socialist Revolution. There working people have been in control for six decades.
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That China story is also wrong the US has a bigger GDP than China. All that nonsense is meant to pit US workers against Chinese workers for boss benefits and make them think they can't make the bosses pay out of their profit bonanza.
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@leviboswell9510 British Imperialism was killing people form its very beginning with the Irish potato famine in 1847. The countries population never recovered. It's still smaller than it was in 1841. The British only finished their last religious war in Ireland in 1998 and the last famine in British India was in 1944. The British Opium wars against China to make money on addiction. The Kings ownership of the Royal Africa slave trading company. All this talk about a kind and gentle capitalism is nothing more than unadulterated horse shit.
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@valerianocuomo996 The United States government supported Batista until he became a liability. Then began a cruel blockade to try and destroy the revolution.
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Why not just come out and say we should all just become trailer trash? Move every few months when the bosses close up shop.
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These are the workings of capitalism. Liberalism and conservatism are capitalist ideology.
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What needs to be done is organizing independently of the two parties getting the truckers help is going down the right road building protests in front of the county courthouse is one way to put the spotlight on this injustice system.
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What free market? You got s gun pointed at everyones head demanding your price at Walmart there is no bargaining. You want to pay the lowest wages, work us the longest hours and charge the highest prices and claim its because your the owner.
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Bosses have been robbing us blind by using central bank generated inflation to cut wages. Bosses use to have to increase wages with productivity until about 1973 when Nixon "temporarily" ended the gold standard. Since then they have been in a war on the unions closing down shops and moving out of state and out of the country for lower wages.
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He go for it because your boss is going to have to rise what he pays you when he hires someone else.
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@evan4856 Your boss will make a decision as an individual. The only thing the rest of us can do is point out why he would raise, lower or leave your wage the same.
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@peanutbanjo It's just part of the decline of the middle class. The capitalists need fewer middle class paper pushers. First they were speed up with computer processing, then PC's with networking and now replaced with online self service. Ordinarily any kind of degree made them qualified to read and write was all that was needed to work in government positions to hold the power to hand out food stamps, do DMV work, work in child services and hand out unemployment Insurance. At one time food stamps were torn out of a ration book now their on a credit/debit type card. Edit: I hope I clarified my comment.
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@peanutbanjo Any reply becomes highlighted as far as I'm able to determine. I hope i made it more understandable.
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Most students are entering college on advice of adults. After arriving the see how capitalism "...where life will hit them like a train..." works when the seniors are looking for job placement. Those are the material forces that are driving the SJW craze not a conspiracy theory where teachers, professors, and college administrators have suddenly become communists.
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@dragonore2009 Capitalism also gives the world great economic crisis and two world wars. The ability to create great means of wealth also means the ability to create great destructive capacity.
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We have a small party the Socialist Workers Party in the United States. Themilitant.com and Pathfinderpress.com We've gotten into a few fights like the 1934 Minneapolis Teamster's General Strike, The Case of the Legless Veteran, Fair Play for Cuba, National Peace Action Coalition, Political Rights Defense Fund. Since 1948 we've ran a candidate for President in every election.
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@yashpatel261 The bosses only want you as long as the can squeeze the most out of you. The old, the sick, the infirm they just want to throw on a scrap pile The greed of the bosses and their system of private profits for them is whats causing most of the problems in the world today. The other is the delay in taking the industrial system of production away from their greedy hands and the workers taking control of production and distribution. .
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@eddyvideostar Ya all you clean office bosses such a bunch of lovely *****.
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@davidgill3356 In general with capitalism every increase in productivity is a curse upon the workers. Ford's River Rouge plant where on one side Ford Ships docked with Coal, Iron Ore and limestone docked employed 100,000 men and on the others side out came Ford vehicles. Today the Rouge employees 7,500 workers.
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@davidgill3356 As Union Steelworkers we got incentive pay based on the number of tons rolled. I doubt this guy increases pay in retails big season from Thanksgiving to Christmas. Instead they put on more bosses for speed up, hire part timers and micromanage everything. What he really should be saying is increases in productivity shift profits to that firm or industry. Pay is determined in the class struggle.
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@davidgill3356 In Retail it has to do with getting things off the truck and onto the sales floor. You can't buy that which isn't on the floor. Managers work in nonunion stores and their year end bonus is tied to total sales for the year. So its always push push push. In a rolling mill it depends on the type of steel your rolling. Steel destined for the pipe mill will go through the mill with seldom a problem. Any other kind of steel which has a different destination can have problems to much or not enough time in the furnace, coming out faster than it can be picked up by cranes afterwords or cobbles where steel goes up in the air like red hot ribbon candy. With a cobble they declare an emergency so foremen normally sleeping in offices somewhere can come out and clear it.
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@davidgill3356 Of course its about politics. This guy is a CEO and you think what? That he has no class bias? Sure like Walmart where everyone from the CEO to the guy working on the floor is an associate. One of the basic ideas of socialism is to spread any increases in productivity equally among all the workers. The capitalist pay more to union workers because a strike stops the flow of profits. The biggest profits flow through the industrial monopolies. Not someone running a lemonade stand.
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Fairness? There is absolutely nothing fair about capitalism what so ever.
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@Barskor1 Libertarian nonsense.
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@Barskor1 How about the 100,000,000 who died early deaths due to leaded gasoline? The 20,000 who died to get rid of your capitalist dictator General Batista The number of lives saved by Cuban medical solidarity? Hitler wanted to build a German capitalist Empire like the British. Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter armed and supported Pol Pot at the UN. The US/UK gave the Green light to the Indonesian military dictatorships murder of 1 million Communist suspects. All the libertarians want to do is delink capitalism from the capitalist government and its crimes.
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@Barskor1 The libertarians also talk about how capitalism could work instead of how it actual does like Karl Marx in Das Kapital. The sing hymns of romantic praise to he industrialist as the greatest of ever human beings. Their problem is the have no way to their dream world without crushing the industrial trade unions by use of fascist methods. .
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@Barskor1 No capitalism produces what will make a profit. Riles and nuclear weapons in addition to sliced bread and instant pudding and the capitalist government defends their profit system though the democratic dictatorship of capital. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism because capitalism is based in nation states which fight over the world market leading to the first Imperialist world war. The Russian revolution began by the strike action of women textile workers growing into a General strike and the creation of Soviets Russian for councils. The Bolsheviks proposed an armistice with no annexations which 14 Imperialist armies answered by invasion of the new workers Russian Soviet Republic. The class struggle is the road to socialism because the workers have no interest in these Imperialist wars for capitalist foreign investors profits or the making of a tiny ruling class super wealthy. Capitalism dead ends as machines replace labor the rate of profit must decline by which all capitalist measure success. To get around the need to issue wage cuts the capitalist created a central bank and fiat currency from which to use inflation to rob the working class of its wages value. . .
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@Barskor1 Capitalism is a social system where most production takes place in factories that are owned by capitalist. The stock market quickly corrupts any Democratic Republic. Cuban medical solitary is not only for Cubans but other people who live in third world nations who revive medical brigades of Cuban Doctors. 10,000 foreign medical students are studying in Havana at no direct cost to the student. The Cuban medical system is based on healthcare in the neighborhoods and towns where a Doctor is responsible for healthcare delivery to everyone in the neighborhood. Like the free educational system the US seeks to destroy it. The US has been calling Cuba a Dictatorship despite the fact that it has always know that to be untrue. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary
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Investors not wage earners should take the losses since they have money they don't need. You'll just run hat in hand to the government for another bailout anyway.
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Just more US propaganda. The US is an Empire hence the Empire State New York. It has over 800 foreign military bases.
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@RealMTBAddict Why would the bosses just give you that money you never see in your check? All you need to do is look at the homeless population to see the workings of BOSS charity.
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Daniel von Strangle Tankie going to bust down the gate on the gated community communities. No we want workers control of industry not a half dozen food coops.
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Daniel von Strangle Is "von Strangle" your police nickname?
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@hanamlchl A coop is not socialism. plus don't they pay something like 8x the lowest paid to the CEO. It's attempt to run another New Lanark by Robert Owen. It's not abolishing private property. It ends up competing in a capitalist market both within and without Spain for capital, customers and suppliers. At best its a mini Yugoslavia worker owned enterprise. It doesn't even control a whole geographic area which would necessarily include social costs. No reason to do voluntary labor with a 8:1 highest to lowest wage ratio. If anything it was set up as a sop to the defeated Spanish Republic which the Church had opposed.
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Drago Musevini Sounds like the stock market. Capitalism works like a casino the house always wins.
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So the should be anti social?
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The only thing increasing market competition brings is layoffs, consolidation, bailouts and the next war for bigger profits. The profit drive of the bosses runs up against the tendency of the long term profit rates to decline. While the bosses may be making record aggregate profits they can't escape the long term tendency of the rate of profit by which they judge success to decline. They are in a world crisis of their own making.
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@wayneyoung9061 No such thing. A market is a place of conflict. It always requires a eith a second pr third pasty to act as a regulator or controller. A market requires a policeman to contain conflict.
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@wayneyoung9061 Some things don't belong in markets. By abolishing private property you cloes down the stock and bond markets.
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@wayneyoung9061 No you don't because the production workers will decide to abolish it in the class struggle by creating a labor party. The capitalist are the ones who need an oppressive government to defend their crisis ridden profit system which can only lead to war and depression.
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@Vintagecoilylocks Billionaires don't create wealth the steal it from the creators of all wealth the working class.
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The way to fight back is to organize picketing and protest demonstrations in front of county government offices. Start bringing in others who are being ignored by county government getting the truckers help is a start and what about getting the unions involved? How many lost or lack county services and other people who the county hasn't got the time of day for protest the waste of 'police and sheriff services" and demand that they be cut back instead.
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Like no one ever starved or died to make America or the British Empires rich and capitalist. The World Wars closed the path of capitalist development in Russia and China. Imperialism remains the highest stage of capitalism because the capitalist are much to greedy to let the rest of the world share in their markets if that was even considered possible. .
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@yodaguy6956 Capitalism always works to replace higher paid skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines. Just look at the way jobs were done years ago in the construction industry. Before Drywall Plasterers use to plaster walls and painters used brushes instead of rollers and spray. Nail were struck with a hammer not with a nail gun.. A welder had to learn how raise and lower his mask constantly. PVC has replaced lots of electrical and plumbing pipe.
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A lawyer is speaking that's what you call a thief talking.
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@jabrokneetoeknee6448 Unions never lost their power the officials lost their willingness to fiigt. The bosses government is for them no matter which party is elected.
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The libertarians have a cookie for you as an incentive to be a good boy for your boss.
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@whitehavencpu6813 For the capitalist he believes only in motivation by incentive or the stick. He can't conceive of human beings as having moral motivations of collective survival.
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@whitehavencpu6813 Industrial capitalism gave way to finance capitalism and Imperialism. Finance capitalism is nothing more than gambling with the lives of million who work for the underlying industrial companies bought and sold on the stock market. This inevitably leads to economic crisis. Profitability of capitalist industry declines as new machinery which is necessary to drive profitability replace labor. As capital value increases the labor exploited declines without more markets than labor the origin of value and profits declines resulting in declining profitability. For capitalism to work best it must continually reinvest in exploiting more labor otherwise the workers can't buy back all that we produce driving unemployment and wages down to the level of just what is needed to come back to work next week. If the world were infinite than capitalism could continually develop however since it is finite capitalism eventually runs into a wall of economic decline. Capitalist don't work harder instead they become more parasitic. Finance capitalism is little more than den of gambling thieves.
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Don't forget the Judge is another attorney and the legislature along with their advisors. Naturally they don't have a conflict of interest their all attorneys and you can trust them right?
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What did American soldiers use to light peasant homes in Vietnam? Answer: Zippo lighters.
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"..Trading outside the boundaries of socialism..." What you really mean is hoarding or capturing a market and then raising prices for yourself like Pharma Bro did.
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The natural workings of capitalism work to end competition for the sale of commodities. Law's themselves are passed to end competition or control competition. You can purchase a tax break or other help by the use of campaign contributions. That's the natural way capitalism works by changing all human relationships into commodity relationships. Legal or illegal everything available is for sale.
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All's you have to do is stop all regulation of the automobile and healthcare insurance companies to see the rise of a huge number of frauds. Everyone will be selling policies and going bankrupt next week. Why not get rid of all government road building contracts to see how long it takes before we become the United States of Potholes. Free market? No such thing never was never will be. Government regulation is brought in to control greed by the rich and those wishing to become rich. Without government regulation coming in capitalists would have to deal with 'greedy workers' who are the real majority.
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Neighboring property owners taking care of roads? That's fine for dirt roads and horse traffic. Maybe you should consider living in an underdeveloped country and buying yams and rice at the market. Without those tractor trailers rolling across the Interstates you would be waiting for the arrival of railroad traffic being switch through multiple yards and carried on wagons drawn by horses to the mercantile in Walnut grove. Who will pay for Interstates? Most of the toll roads preceding the Interstates were paid for with bonds guaranteed by state governments. Obviously Congress decided that more roads were needed and building more toll roads was not the answer. Plus their are two types of toll roads. Those with closed ticket systems. These are fully maintained by the road owners. Those with toll barriers are only toll roads between the nearest entrance and exits. The rest of those roads are considered federal Interstates and eligible for federal funds. Texas built a toll road that went bankrupt. It was put up for sale on the courthouse steps without any suitable buyers John Hancock Insurance bought its investment back. Now consider a system of multiply toll roads and owners across the country going boom and bust.
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Without any regulation of Insurance anyone can become an insurance company. Set up your company write you contracts and then after a bit of time of selling enough contracts and paying out some claims announce bankruptcy. Oh and don't forget to pay yourself handsomely for writing those contracts until it's time to declare bankruptcy. You are some starry eyed individual who has never had a problem of trying to cash his check only to find out it bounces like a rubber ball or been told sorry payday has been changed to Monday.
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Reesel4D "Due to the limitations of physics, there is really nothing that can be done if it turns out that a company doesn't have the assets to satisfy agreements. They call that "bankrupt"." Unless you are AIG then you can go to Washington and get yourself bailed out. Physics covers everything to begin with so how about leaving that out. You and I both know the state insurance regulators aren't going to allow an undercapitalized firm into the insurance market. In fact the risk in flood insurance is such that capitalist abandoned the market in favor of the government taking on the claims and capital reserves while the insurance companies do the management and risk assessment only. So in essence flood insurance is single payer already something that 'wouldn't work' in health insurance.
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"I can have an expensive drug habit and lose millions every day to casinos, but as long as I own a giant gold mine, then my lifestyle is economically sustainable.' actually you sound like Howard Hughes. Actually building highways and airports with public money has always a complaint by the railroads. Then again the government issued charter for the Union Pacific Railroad with its land deal was quite lucrative. Also Georgia complained about government subsidies for lighthouses and other money for the subsiding of commerce for Northern Industrial and commercial interests as a secondary reason for succession from the Union. So I guess you would find good company in the slavocracy for you dream world of libertarianism. It's just to bad that you, Alan Greenspan and Ayn Rand weren't living back in during 1860's because than you could have made sure everything that was done by capitalism was done without massive corruption. Ah wouldn't be nice to be smelling that fresh horse manure on that private street in Manhattan called Wall Street because public road building was immoral.
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It is definitely problematic to have a nationalized oil industry providing social benefits while letting other oligarchy owners of capitalist firms continue operations and even more so with a mass movement that wants socialism. We've already seen one failed coup attempt and a decline in world oil prices is also creating problems. If the masses go back quietly to their shanty towns the oligarchy may let them live if not than a collision course lies ahead one class will win and the other will lose.
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You use the straw man argument of libertarianism when argue that the state is independent of class. This is the quote, 'statist' theory. It is little more than an argument that free market (an obvious misnomer) good and state operations bad. However without a state the owners of capital could not enforce their labor market and ownership relations on the proletariat. When you rail against statism you forget that your state acts to both enforce those relations and maintain the 'free market' system. A's George W Bush said, "I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system." The state must consciously intervene in big and small ways to prevent your greedy capitalist system from getting out of control and devouring itself. You propose no way to get to your fairytale world except by utopian idealism and moral imperative. Even then most of you realize it's a utopian dream because obviously the class interests of the majority are not served by either your state or free market principles. You will then go and say well Atlas Shrugged and so will I but let's not let the communists take over because then I would be losing not just my principles but my shirt, my wealth and my power.
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If a libertarian argues they're no classes than obviously the state is independent of them. But he has no problem with classifying anything done by the state other than enforcing his own set of rules as statist and therefore morally wrong. After listening to this kind of stuff one might wonder if in according to the libertarian mind man should end social labor and live better as a the male orangutans do by individually seeking the fruit produced in the jungle instead of laboring together.
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Their is nothing preventing the election of a communist party to power in the United States. As for a change in property relationships only the fifth amendment constrains the government from taking private property and passage of a constitutional amendment could solve that problem. So the only real constraint lies in the capitalist canceling or refusing to accept the election results. Something many were thinking about after the election of Donald Trump and when the eleven states of the slavocracy left provoking the civil war.
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The real communists propose a change from government bureaucracy control to trade union control with scientific advisors. This is a type of direct democracy where issues of safety, the environment and other social needs are solved at the local level instead before numerous court and legal tribunals played out by lawyers were the needs of capital come first.
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I suppose those murder video's on cellphones were just imagined oppression. Batista being anointed dictator of Cuba by the American Ambassador and murdering 20,000 was just a feeling. Once Batista was overthrown everyone should have looked to Kennedy I suppose. Because he was the new and great two stooge party President. Outside of actually pushing the nuclear button which some of the US generals wanted to do. Every way possible and every imaginable measure was taken to defeat the Cuban Revolution. Sorry you lost capitalist loser. The Cuban's have dignity today because the didn't back down. As one Cuban General said we started with throwing rocks at the police. It is better to stand as a man and let the cops murder you than to "get on the ground" like a dog.
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After every socialist revolution every measure possible is taken by the capitalist countries to defeat the revolution because as Churchill said, "Bolshevism must be strangled in its cradle."
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@szililolabu I'm not impressed by so called even handed intellectuals who condemn both sides. I'm sure you've got you sights on an up and coming bourgeois professorship.
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@xboxstudent Look I knew as far back as the 1970's that the Stalinist's were deserters. So the breakup of the Soviet Union was not that big of a surprise. The biggest change is now no one gives the Stalinist theories as much weight and the former countries of the eastern block China and Vietnam are open to real socialist and communist ideas.
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@xboxstudent No only a big crisis of capitalism is needed. Capitalism was already winning the battle with feudalism in Marx's time. The first big crisis, the British banking crisis, was followed by WW1 with the Russian Revolution. The second was caused by the US stock market crash and great depression resulting in WW2. This war was fought out between the Soviet Union and Germany in Europe and between the US and Japan in Asia. After that crisis it was so deep that even the Stalinist partisans in China, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and Korea were able to lead revolutions and come to power. The next victory was in Cuba where the first revolution since the October revolution of 1917 was lead by a leadership that didn't originate form a Stalinist Party. The crisis of 2008 is the biggest crisis in living memory will it lead to a world socialist revolution? It certainly has opened many previously closed doors in the centers of world capitalism.
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@xboxstudent How many defeats did the Stalinist's lead? Germany in 1934, France and Spain both before WW2 and after the war Stalin kept his word with Democratic English and American Imperialism refusing aid to Greece and Yugoslavia. He and Mao forced Ho Chi Minh to accept the division of Vietnam at the first Paris peace accords. It was Stalin who agreed to the division of Korea at the 38th parallel. What right did he have to agreeing to something that was his to begin with? Our Party called for the unconditional withdrawal of US troops from both Vietnam and Korea. Did your friends the French Stalinist bastards do the same?
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Even today our party says US Troops out of Korea and Guantanamo Bay Cuba.
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@xboxstudent When we have the majority we will take power just as the Bolsheviks did. Stalin played a minor role in the October revolution which can be confirmed by John Reeds, "Ten Days that Shook the World." You confirm that the French bastards bent to the will of the French Imperailist just as Stalin himself and all of his followers did. Why not just admit that you and them are just to afraid of capitalist justice to open your mouths? Sure Stalin was not the only one to blame all those little Stalin's in the west who said nothing and wrote nothing. One of Stalin's closest associate Nikita Khrushchev only discovered the crimes of Stalin after the paranoid gangster was dead. Only the Stalinist used violence to get their way in Spain. The murdered the revolution there just as the had done to the old Bolsheviks in the Moscow Trials. There whole idea of leadership is if they can't be the leaders than the will take any action necessary to destroy that movement. What they have in common with the Imperialist is they lack even the slightest revolutionary morality.
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The American Imperialist's executed two communist for being communists. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg all the time knowing that the charges of stealing the atom bomb secrets were completely false.
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Why on earth would the head of American Imperialism (Truman) want an alliance with Ho Chi Minh over the French Imperailists? That's the type of thinking that one could expect from Stalin in Moscow. Sure Stalin was always going to help revolutions AFTER they were lost you just need to follow his orders. You needed to get on his antifascists bandwagon where they tie the workers hands and feet to the 'progressive' capitalists. All the capitalist benefit from unemployment and strike breaking. That's why the progressives have no problem with getting in bed with the fascists.
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@xboxstudent Why don't you just move into a castle built for Kings in Fairfield County, CT. You can drop all your pretend knowledge of Marxism based in Stalinist theory of 'socialism in one country' and move in next to liberals. They have the 'real theory' of American Imperialist wars they are all a mistake unless 'we' win. Go ahead you'll love living next to the defeated cold warriors. All of Stalinist theory was based on Socialism in one country. So naturally it became a problem when more countries like China, Vietnam and Yugoslavia went socialist without Stalin's permission. The world revolution would weaken Stalin's and his heirs like Khrushchev's position in the worlds labor movement. Today's Stalinist is just another weak kneed Social Democrat.
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@Deborahtunes What's the problem? Not enough Boss propaganda being taught?
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@oku12 Conservatives want a return to the days when everyone could return to the farm when the got sick or old in the cities.
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@chadasonmcgraw So Ayn Rand is not a conservative who constantly called Social Security immoral until it came time to get her own old age check. Quit the Pro Birth sob stories. You want government intervention into the personal lives of women because you can't trust them. Instead you trust the rotten apple cops and the sky pilots.
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Ya India the country with the Bhopal Union Carbide chemical plant disaster. An estimate 8,000 deaths and a 500,000 exposed to toxic gas. They sure have tough labor laws.
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Fire the lazy? For what so you can pay taxes for welfare, out on the streets as criminals or to have them locked up in profit making hell holes. You talk about firing the lazy as if Bill Gates doesn't understand that you need to eat much more than another operating system. If laziness was a human problem then Bourgeois Society would have collapsed a long time ago. .
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@spec24 Capitalism is a distinct social system compared to feudalism. It is based in nation states with strong central governments. The whole reason for the US achieving military superpower status as the world's most mighty Empire in human history is to protect the export of capital form the United States to the rest of the world with a guarantee of return on investment from those foreign investments.
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@spec24 The say that American capitalist don't rely on police and military power shows you are either an out right liar or ignorant. Without the band-aids of government greed regulations place upon capitalist exploitation of labor, land, and mineral capitalism would have been overthrown long ago.
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Its all about a big giveaway so Capitalist Politicians can appear to be saviors of the working class and big business can make big profits. There is no win win situations for the working class either we win or we lose.
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If their is law that says the can't unless you can put up a big protest they'll just do whatever they want anyway. Judges from the local level to highest court in the land will find an excuse to rule against you.
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@tommyrosati9326 Once capitalism archives primitive accumulation it enters into decline. Giant Industries and firms become dominate in the economy of nations and they begin the fight over the world market. How can they win this battle of the world market which is the limit of capitalism but though Imperialist war abroad and a fascist dictatorship over the workers at home? The Giant industry enters into decline because of its very success of replacing skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines it becomes so over capitalised and the living labor used which is always the source of capitalist profits so small that its rate of return on investment makes it no longer worth investing in. This is how they become too big to fail. The capitalist doesn't want to sell into a market that doesn't return a profit. So instead they begin a crusade of gambling and creating new forms of innovative fictitious capital because their economist have told them what they want to hear that they the capitalist are the real producers of wealth and not the workers.
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@tommyrosati9326 So your theory is that value comes from God and the labor theory of value is wrong because capitalist can't rob each other or drive prices up and down with cartels and monopoly control and government intervention. When the capitalists can build Ayn Rand's perpetual electrical motion machine and defy the known laws of the Universe let us know.
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Legal parasites.
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The capitalist bosses are defining the terms from behind the scene. Decisions made today will determine who gets a seat in the privileged positions of the fake meritocracy.
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Ayn Rand received her university education and advanced study despite being a self described bourgois student in Lenin's time leaving at the time of his death legally for a country which had been at war with the Soviet Republic and had no diplomatic relations. How does a government preform a self check? It was the struggle of black working people against segregation, the anti colonial revolution and the Cuban revolution that reversed the second Red scare.
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In the rich countries no one except a few intellectuals and self taught workers are interested in socialism until capitalism develops problems. The collapse of 2008 has revived the interest in socialism and politics in general among the masses of people in the United States.
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That's the best you can do is hit us with a few quotes you can't even trace back to the original person who said them? How about, "What's the matter are you afraid of a few Chinese Laundrymen?" General MacArthur during the Korean War. How about Richard Nixon coming on TV and saying "..I'm not a crook..." Fiat currency? Nixon closed the window for foreign gold exchange because France wanted gold for dollars. They've had 40 years to go back to the gold standard. It's the natural greed of the capitalists and the way their system works that guarantees financial collapse not any one particular policy. Capitalism without cronyism? Impossible because that's always been the way capitalism has always worked going back to the Union Pacific railroad charter. Clinton took away welfare AFDC and created TANF in the first attack on the Social Security Act of 1935. The guarantee of public housing is gone replaced with a complicated system that makes sense only to those with investment money. You broke our unions so instead of 30% of workers belonging to unions it's now about 6%. The promise of private pensions to the more skilled and unionized workers is in the trash. Wages have been stagnate while productivity and profits have sorred. You let us borrow with easy money saying we didn't need higher wages just good credit before 2008 now we are lucky to get a loan for anything. We paid for Social Security and medicare for our old age and the disabled and you want that back also. If anyone got a free lunch its was from the 'No Bankers Left Behind' policy of Obama.
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Capitalist government is dangerous. It becomes larger and larger in its attempts to regulate greed and keep the ruling class in power. You can see how upset they were when the Clinton lost despite her raising 4 times the money Trump did. You saw how quickly they had themselves bailed out in 2008 despite their usual propaganda about how bankruptcy is good because it eliminates bad and inefficient businesses.
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Actually I would say this. Those countries and groups of countries suffering the most severe crisis' coupled with a massive movement along with a competent and selfless leadership will go over to socialist revolution first. Capitalism by its very nature is 'unfair'. Unfairness in itself provides no means for change. Unfairness provokes class struggle but without a socialist leadership for that struggle that struggle will die down until the next crisis develops or a huge sections of the world are destroyed in world war allowing for another instance of primitive capital accumulation.
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That's a quote from the anti marxist Thomas Sowell. Professors like him are for the bosses because they are intellectual servants paid to sit in a chair and sing the praise of their masters the ruling capitalist bosses. Unions would not exist if workers didn't want them just as Sowell would not have a career as a bourgeois professor of economics if he came to the wrong conclusions on Fidel Castro. .
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