Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "California wants to force them to teach this?" video.

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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LMAO.
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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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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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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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